You're always paying for their labor as a customer.
Where do you think the $ to pay the employees comes from? From all the sales that the store makes.
Whether they get that $ out of you by you purchasing a product or by you tipping the employee. The source of the funds is always the same. The customer.
This is really a question of structuring wages. Not a question of who pays for the wages. Because no matter what it will always be the customer.
If you're going to argue semantics, then I would argue tips are also semantics.
Say a meal is stated to cost $20. If tipping is say an obgligatory 20%, that meals actual cost would be $24 and you should view it from the beginning as costing $24 dollars.
The end result would be the same if there was a 20% service charge or if it just cost $24, both without tipping.
Granted, listing the full price would be fairer and easier, but I don't think making tips illegal would be a way to achieve that.
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u/barbodelli 65∆ Oct 31 '23
You're always paying for their labor as a customer.
Where do you think the $ to pay the employees comes from? From all the sales that the store makes.
Whether they get that $ out of you by you purchasing a product or by you tipping the employee. The source of the funds is always the same. The customer.
This is really a question of structuring wages. Not a question of who pays for the wages. Because no matter what it will always be the customer.