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The argument though is that not all hours are created equal. If you are working during hours where utilization is peak, i.e. lunch and dinner, then you will ma
by Junk_Collector 8y ago
The argument though is that not all hours are created equal. If you are working during hours where utilization is peak, i.e. lunch and dinner, then you will make more money than if you were working off hours on a tipping system because you serve more customers regardless of the customer tipping criteria. This naturally incentivizes people to work the more difficult hours by compensating them better for those hours. If pay is flat at the minimum wage, then you incentivize the hours of least utilization where people do not have to work as hard for equal pay or worst case drives people into other easier professions.
- ergothus 8y agoRight. That's the issue with moving from tipping to flat wages. Yet the US is one of the only countries that does tipping, and plenty of other professions have this issue in the US, so how do they manage ? I understand the problem, I want the next step of "how do we get to a less crappy system?"
- burfog 8y agoNurses commonly bid for shifts. Undesirable shifts pay far more than desirable ones. Christmas morning will pay far more than an ordinary Thursday afternoon. I guess that isn't exactly flat wages, but it isn't tips either. I think it beats both. So at the restaurant, early evening on Valentine's Day would pay a lot more than the late afternoon on an uninteresting day.