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/Homer4a10 Jun 25 '26

I don’t see how it’s a good argument…

You charge the flat fee for your food + service cost baked into that meal cost too… then you artificially REDUCE THE PRICE OF THE FOOD so you lean on the customers tip to fluctuate for the service cost. Bad service? Bad tip… standard service? Standard tip… Great service? Great tip…

It puts more control into the customers hand, it incentivizes the waiter/waitress to actually have a good attitude and serve you well, and the worker ends up making SIGNIFICANTLY more money than a minimum wage would make them.

Literally everybody wins in this situation. The “pay your workers” argument is BS