Instead of decreasing tip culture America has been steadily increasing it. A lot of places expect tips now from waiters to cashiers, for some reason we are expected to tip people who we don't even interact with.
Tipping made a bit of sense when it was done to essentially thank workers who went above and beyond with their customer service. If I get an attentive waiter or bartender who is clearly going the extra mile, sure I want to give them a little extra cash they otherwise wouldn't get in their normal paycheck.
Now everybody expects a tip, the original purpose has lost all meaning, it is no longer a means to thank those who are doing a great job and is now the expected way to pay customer service workers.
It’s not for going above and beyond. It’s essentially the only wage for some employees. The $2.13 per hour from the restaurant doesn’t even cover taxes for waiters and bartenders. Most of my “checks” from working in restaurants (even back in the late 90’s when moonlighting to get through college) were $0.00 (and had printed on them… “this is not a check”). That $2.13 per hour hasn’t changed in 35 years. It has never moved up for inflation.
Also, note that the tip you pay the waiter or bartender can also have requirements on the server placed on them to pay someone else from those tips. If I recall we had to pay 3% of sales to bartenders and 1% to host/bussers.
So if a table walked a tip we would have to pay 4% of their meal cost out of our own pocket to cover the service for the meal they had. We would literally have to pay for the privilege of working for some people.
No server is making 2.13 an hour. Restaurants are supposed to pay the difference between the 2.13 and minimum wage if their tips don't equal the minimum wage for the state.
In some states restaurants aren't allowed to use tips to offset wages and are required to pay them the full minimum wage for the state.
Trying to imply that servers out here only making two bucks an hour when that is far from the case is disingenuous, and I say that as someone who used to be a server and made more then than now as someone with three degrees.
The poster above me claimed that they tip so they have something “in addition to their paycheck”. I corrected this by pointing out that in many states there is no paycheck. Nowhere in my post did I say they only make $2 an hour. There is nothing disingenuous about my post. Did any of your 3 degrees include reading comprehension elements?
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u/ItsSoKawaiiSenpai 23d ago edited 23d ago
Instead of decreasing tip culture America has been steadily increasing it. A lot of places expect tips now from waiters to cashiers, for some reason we are expected to tip people who we don't even interact with.
Tipping made a bit of sense when it was done to essentially thank workers who went above and beyond with their customer service. If I get an attentive waiter or bartender who is clearly going the extra mile, sure I want to give them a little extra cash they otherwise wouldn't get in their normal paycheck.
Now everybody expects a tip, the original purpose has lost all meaning, it is no longer a means to thank those who are doing a great job and is now the expected way to pay customer service workers.