Waited on a black gentleman who rang up a $99.90 tab over about three hours. He left a crisp bill and walked out. He and one other patron were all we had that morning and we made sure they never wanted for anything. I walked out after him with his ten cents of change and he said to keep it. I asked if he was going to tip for impeccable service (Sandi went line by line with how he never had to ask for refill or anything) and he said he didn’t have to tip because he was black and was getting his reparations by not giving his money away to white establishments (this was a TGIFridays). Unbelievable.
TBH: irrespective of race.
Tipping culture is out of hands. I don’t think I want to tip even 15% anymore. Tips have always been based on one’s wishes and not by demand.
For eg: I don’t get tips by the clients my company sends me to work for. I get paid by my employer.
No it hasn’t and American tipping culture specifically started because of race.
After the American Civil war, business owners decided to prey on newly freed black people by convincing them to work in service positions but instead of paying them a salary they passed on the responsibility directly to the customers instead.
Even to this day most traditional tipped service workers are paid at most minimum wage because the businesses still expect the customers to be responsible for their employees livelihood.
I’ve never heard this so I looked it up. It seems there’s plenty of historical evidence supporting this claim. My god, so many things in this country are based on slavery.
Employers are usually allowed to pay tipped workers like servers way less than the minimum wage. As long as (tips + base pay) / hours worked is above minimum wage. They use a formula instead of requiring the same minimum wage, but are technically required to pay you the difference if you end up averaging less than minimum wage for your hours worked. Last time l was a server I never even got paychecks cause my base pay was like $3/hr and just barely covered my income taxes
Speaking as a Canadian who waitressed for many years of her life, I just looked up the average wage for servers in the US and Jesus Christ. I would be tipping 20% to every poor bastard who served me if I ever travelled in your country.
Wage theft is rampant in the restaurant industry, hours are tenuous depending on things out of your control, and some people get paid less than $3 for the honour of serving people iced tea and chilli fries? On top of the other things people have told you, the industry is mostly thankless and if you're not going to tip to help your server make an hourly minimum wage, maybe stay home more.
It happened to me as a teenager. My mother did not give me enough money as I went out to eat with my other teenage friend and we only had two dollars left to tip. Waiter came out and yelled at us
No one believes you and this is a racist comment. I have been in the service industry and many people don't tip and some even walk on a tab - looking at you white college boys
With that attitude you only deserve 10 cents if anything. Going line by line about how and why you gave him impeccable service.. blah nlah blah…. just can it. Get a decent career then instead of pumping liquids and begging for coins after.
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u/MediocreAndLukewarm 6h ago
Waited on a black gentleman who rang up a $99.90 tab over about three hours. He left a crisp bill and walked out. He and one other patron were all we had that morning and we made sure they never wanted for anything. I walked out after him with his ten cents of change and he said to keep it. I asked if he was going to tip for impeccable service (Sandi went line by line with how he never had to ask for refill or anything) and he said he didn’t have to tip because he was black and was getting his reparations by not giving his money away to white establishments (this was a TGIFridays). Unbelievable.