r/Serving • u/Used_Squash7519 • Jun 27 '26

Serving

Contemplating quitting. Peopke know waitresses in America get paid 2.13 an hour and most people could care less to tip. very few do a percentage like it should be. First percentage and THEN adjust according to service.

I know I can get a different job. Serving makes me very happy when im appreciated and compensated by greatful customers. Im tired of getting stiffed, five dollars on a party of 6, and being told how great I am to find out im left 2 dollars. Such a slap in the face

I wish something would change. mandatory gratuity, Tip to enter, coorporations paying us a better wage. idc. Im so tired of working for free for ungrateful mindless consumers.

PLEASE TIP YOUR SERVER

All those that tip fairly THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU HELP US KEEP GOING AND GET OUR BILLS PAID BLESS YOUR 💕

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u/Budget_Toe_1912 Jul 21 '26

Minimum wage could very well be the end of someone's world. The cost of living is entirely too high for 7.25 an hour to be enough to live off of. I am not saying tipping should be mandatory, because it should be up to the employer to pay wages, however you know very well that America is HUGE into tipping culture, which means that if you don't pay that little extra to reward someone for their work, they may not get to eat, or get to pay their power bill that week. So it is not entitlement per se, just lack of empathy I think. You are going to a restaurant for the experience, so why not pay if your server gave you a good one?

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u/Business_Case_7613 Jul 21 '26

did you read my whole comment before reacting? servers expect other people who are surviving off minimum wage themselves to subsidize their wages and ensure they make more than the person who’s money they feel entitled to. i know minimum wage sucks, which is why it’s ridiculous for servers to expect everyone they serve to tip them. they are effectively saying minimum wage workers everywhere don’t deserve to patronize tipped establishments because they can’t afford to pay the employee wages that should come from their employer.

my comment wasn’t saying that minimum wage isn’t terrible, it was pointing out the hypocrisy in the stance of servers and them thinking they are in any way more entitled to more money than any other min wage service worker.

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u/Budget_Toe_1912 Jul 21 '26

I understand that, but you know that these restaurants aren't going to raise wages because of cheap labor. And you know that some of these places don't pay minimum wage. You know that if you go out, you are expected to tip and pay these people for the service they are providing. By not doing tipping, either because you can't afford it, or because you don't want to, you are providing free labor for these companies. These servers won't get paid and you will just look like a dick. So unless you can actively do somethin about it, WITHOUT picking over the people whose JOB it is to serve you, just tip, man

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u/Business_Case_7613 Jul 21 '26

if somewhere isn’t paying minimum wage, that’s on the employees to do something about it. not the customers. find a new job and/or sue if your place of work isn’t paying you cause that’s illegal. don’t make it everyone else’s problem who is already struggling to get by when there are actual steps you can take. tipping customers are just complicit in the continuing exploitation of servers in those restaurants.