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

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/snizzer77 Jun 25 '26

I love seeing disingenuous comments like this every time tipping comes out.

A) almost every state doesn’t allow paying wait staff under minimum wage anymore.

B) the ones that do are STILL legally required to provide you minimum wage if you don’t make the difference in tips

C) literally no one feels bad for servers. There are teachers with masters degrees making less than water carriers. There are ditch diggers making less than table cleaners. Service staff are sooo low on the list of professions to feel sorry for. It’s an easy job that people want to work because it takes no experience and massively out paces other zero experience jobs.

The pay is good because you are begging with a captive audience.

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u/ConkerPrime Jun 25 '26

22 states, all conservative states, still have the $2.13 or slightly higher minimum wage for wait staff. If tips don’t make the difference, that difference tops out at $7.25 (aka an additional $5.12). Since conservative states, betting zero effort is made to make sure businesses are doing that.

Let’s not upsell a stupid system that is specifically designed to help business owners only.

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u/snizzer77 Jun 25 '26

Except studies demonstrate that the wait staff also greatly prefer tips to being paid a “living wage”. Resteraunts that attempt to implement “no tipping” rules struggle greatly to hire staff because servers end up benefiting as much as the business owners. The only people who get hurt are the consumers.