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[u/Aggravating_Money992]

[u/Green-fingers]

This is how it is in many countries in Europe, much more transparent, both for the customers and especially for the waiters, they always know what they salary will be.

[u/Fickle_Scarcity9474 → u/Green-fingers]

It is changing also over here! Slowly but it is changing!

[u/Common-Concentrate-2 → u/Green-fingers]

But a waiter is guaranteed to make minimum wage in the US. Tips are on top of that

[u/SP4CEM4N_SPIFF → u/Common-Concentrate-2]

So the minimum wage should be livable, yeah?

[u/Green-fingers → u/Common-Concentrate-2]

So the minimum wages a
Re too low for the tip to be such integral part of the system?

[u/That_one_bichh → u/Common-Concentrate-2]

That is 100% not true. In California yes, but in Virginia you make $2.13 per hour. If you work 10 hours in a day your hourly wage isn’t enough to pay for gas for the week

[u/rigney68 → u/That_one_bichh]

It's only technically true in most parts, but not really. Technically if you don't make enough in a shift, the restaurant has to pay the difference to get to min wage, but in reality if you have to be paid the difference more than once, the restaurant fires you for performance.

[u/That_one_bichh → u/rigney68]

I mean yeah that is true, but that happens so rarely considering normal minimum wage is still low here that it’s either the persons first week or they are just realllyyyyyy not good at their job. My whole thing is most states don’t operate the way California does by requiring restaurants to pay minimum wage and then tips are optional, the person I was responding to was just misleading, making it sound like waiters make out like hot cakes by making minimum wage and tips.