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To play devil's advocate for a moment: most wait staff are paid primarily with tips, unless they don't meet minimum wage, in which case the employer makes up th
by Eridrus 8y ago
To play devil's advocate for a moment: most wait staff are paid primarily with tips, unless they don't meet minimum wage, in which case the employer makes up the difference.
This is functionally equivalent to the situation at Instacart.
Tipping is a really bad practice that we should end, rather than defend.
- zamadatix 8y agoDevil's advocate? Places that take the tips from the wait staff and pocket them are operating illegally.
- kevinventullo 8y agoWhile they cannot pocket the tips, they can legally subtract the tips from the employee's hourly wage, even if that means going under the "minimum wage", which essentially amounts to the same thing as pocketing. See https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs15.htm https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs15.htm N.b. The employer is unable to do this if they don't know about the tip, which is why, as I understand it, tipping in cash is preferred by folks working in the service industry.
- skellera 8y agoThat’s not the reason. Cash tipping is preferred so they don’t have to pay tax on it.