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Even if the service isn’t great, b/c tipping is baked into their total compensation, is argue that you should always tip. Only changes the amounts that you tip

• arcticbull 7y ago
  The thing that's crazy is you hear a lot of people talking about "what's the incentive to provide good services if employees aren't motivated by tips" -- which is it? Either we've accepted it's a "fuel surcharge" for an airline ticket (as if the fuel isn't part of the price and I'm free to grab my own dishes from the kitchen) -- or it's meant to incentivize behavior. If we pick both, we're not really achieving either.
  • bluejekyll 7y ago
    I wrote a very incoherent sentence there. What restaurants have done is offload the risk of customers coming in to the establishment on to the employee by not paying them a full wage. This is fine in high throughput places, maybe, but many other places it means service workers are making below minimum wage. So yes, always tip, and tip more if you liked the service.