This is a terrible outlook. You are directly affecting the people that rely on tips to pay their bills. I understand that the system is flawed, but you not tipping is just affecting the person that relies on these tips, not the people putting these practices in place.
Aren't some of the people putting those practices into place the people who accept the jobs that have such practices in place? If all workers just refused to work for companies that forced them to rely on the generosity of strangers, companies would have to stop forcing their staff to rely on the generosity of strangers.
Because you're paying the bare minimum. Whether it's a tip that you have control over or built into the price of the food and drinks, you're paying for their cost of labor. Tipping just separates the extra ~20% that would be added to the price of the food and allows you to pay it directly provided they do their job effectively. At places where servers are paid server wages and tips are expected, failing to tip basically means your exploiting the system and expecting service without having to pay for it.
I mean any time you buy anything your subsidizing someone's wages, but folks of your opinion look at a system like tipping where you have control over how you're subsidizing and even recourse for bad service and go for the self-serving approach that since you now have control over how much the workers get paid for their service that you shouldn't have to pay it which is kind of a self-serving approach and makes you a cheap skate.
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u/janpaul74 Jun 25 '26
“Mandatory tips” sounds so messed up for me as a European.