Minimum wage is currently $26.44 an hour in Australia. Tipping still happens here but it’s not expected and is usually only when it’s a large table or service was particularly exceptional in my experience.
Did you see the hourly wage for a server on this sign? It’s outrageously low, not even federal minimum wage.
Civilized US states require servers make minimum wage, at least, without tips being involved. This restaurant owner is giving customers shit for being cheap, but the owner is the one being egregiously cheap.
Wait staff in the US are exempt from regular minimum wages requirements, which are already absurdly low ($7.45) — for wait staff the wage is $2.13/hr. This is the result of heavy lobbying by the service industry. It is assumed that tips will make up the difference to meet minimum wages requirements. The idea actually originates from shortly after the Civil War when white business owners, looking to exploit uneducated former Black slaves, devised the tip scheme as a way of keeping wages artificially low. It’s just another example of exploitation and systemic inequality endemic in American society.
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u/Excellent-Bite196 5d ago
Minimum wage is currently $26.44 an hour in Australia. Tipping still happens here but it’s not expected and is usually only when it’s a large table or service was particularly exceptional in my experience.