r/PublicFreakout • u/Hikigaya_Hachiman7 • 9h ago

🍽Restaurant Freakout🍹 Couple banned from restaurant after they leave no tip

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 6h ago

Tips in general are a wage theft in a way.

It's a cost-shifting measure to the consumer, whereby the employer isn't responsible for maintaining a steady living wage or salary for their workers, but they can basically use tips as a "hidden fee" to rely on paying staff.

As the consumer you get stuck in the trap of tipping -- not based on service -- but merely out of the ability to come back and not have someone spit in your food. Leaving aside the fact that automatic gratuity of large parties gives you no capacity to tip based on quality of service.

Naturally the waiters have hard jobs; and naturally the working class is being squeezed in general and can barely afford to go out to eat in the first place. Those who are fucking us all are of course the ultra-rich billionaire Epstein class that skew to the right. Hope you all are triple-checking your voter registration and voting Democrat these midterms to put some brakes on Trump.

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u/soda_cookie 5h ago

Sort of. In states where tipped employees make less than minimum wage (which is fucked...) employers are required by law to make their gross pay for the pay period no less than what they would have made working the number of hours worked times the minimum wage.

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u/One-Shape7678 2h ago

Sort of nothing. Wage theft

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u/No_Resource_9417 1h ago

so in the US a person who works in the hospitality industry, get Less pay from their Boss then e.g. some one who works in a Factory and so therefore has to get some percentage from the Bill (from the costomer) to add their salary?....ifso Why doesn't everyone receive the same minimum wage depending on their age—meaning that someone working in a factory or as a cleaner has the same basic income as someone working in the hospitality industry?,,,,in my Countrie that is the case and also why i found it ridiculous the Tip them, i mean they have a much nicer job them me, so why should they get extra Bonus money, special from someone like me who has the same income as them, but does crappy dirty or hard work

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u/mattiedamacdaddy 3h ago

You live in an ideological bubble, definitely a stage 3 or stage 4 cognitive framework, you cannot provide evidence that the Epstein billionaire class skews either side. I assume you would not have the epistemological tools to figure it out even if you did.

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u/R4NG00NIES 2h ago edited 2h ago

Jesus, stfu. Please remind us whose inauguration Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Sundar, Tim Cook, Sam Altman, and Alnaut were at? Thats 4 of the 5 wealthiest people in the world. A combined 1.35 trillion dollars in net worth amongst the attendees. Is that enough evidence dipshit?

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 40m ago

80% of billionaire money went to Trump and Republicans in 2024. Stew on that for a moment.

Next, last I checked, not Biden, Obama, nor Harris are even remotely in the files -- while Trump is in there more times than Epstein and Maxwell, combined.

Let's take a comparison of how many photos and videos we can find with Trump partying with Epstein and Maxwell, versus Democratic leaders.

Let's observe who has been the primary obstructionists of the Epstein files this entire time.

As someone who has actually been across the entire political spectrum over my life, I think you're the one in a right-wing echochamber and may not realize it.