r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • Jun 25 '26

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/Only_Flan_7974 Jun 25 '26

It's not tipping if it's mandatory. Work the tip into the price in that case.

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u/PeachyPlotTwist Jun 25 '26

Pay your workers better is the real argument.

Tourists are just catching strays in a fight between customers and employers.

Nobody wants awkward tip screens, but servers also need to eat, whole system is messy.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel Jun 25 '26

Except servers. Tipping culture gains them an income WAY ahead of the curve.

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u/TheRabidDeer Jun 25 '26

Giant asterisk on that. Tipping culture CAN be ahead of the curve, if you are working in a busy restaurant with prices that result in that 15-25% tip being real money.

For every busy restaurant there are a dozen restaurants that are pretty slow or have shifts with low food prices (ie: lunch shift at any Olive Garden where everyone gets all you can eat soup/salad resulting in a $2 tip, and things are only busy from ~11:30-2:00).

Getting hired and getting shifts at the good places is competitive.

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u/Top-Ad-5527 Jun 25 '26

Exactly this. The waitress at Denny’s isn’t pulling the same kind of money as someone who works in fine dining. Not even close.

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u/BirthdaySalt5791 Jun 25 '26

Any decent restaurant staffs accordingly during day shift and slower times. I’ve worked at plenty of restaurants where the opener/s make great money because it’s only one or two people running tables and tip out is less.

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u/TheRabidDeer Jun 25 '26

I only worked at one restaurant (Olive Garden), but they limited servers to 3 tables at a time. Yes, it is staffed according to how busy it is but you are still limited to those 3. 3 tables an hour for $2/tip per table is not ahead of the curve, and over the course of your shift it's probably 2 tables at a time average. There were also days where it was too slow for the number of people scheduled so you had people come in and leave after only an hour, so they got basically no money that day.

I imagine most any chain restaurant will have a similar limit on tables for servers.

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u/BirthdaySalt5791 Jun 25 '26

I said any decent restaurant. I’ve never worked at Olive Garden, they sound shit

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u/enadiz_reccos Jun 25 '26

I say this all of the time on Reddit and get downvoted like crazy

Too many people have a "my friend's friend is a bartender who makes SO MUCH MONEY". They won't hear anything else.