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As far as I understand it, the system is to not pay employees a living wage, and then guilt-trip customers into making up for that. I consider this an abhorren

• prepend 4y ago
  > I consider this an abhorrent system, that should not be supported. I agree it’s abhorrent. But we must support it by tipping. If you don’t tip, you’re not fighting the system you are harming the workers. My approach is to tip and also advocate/vote for/support businesses that don’t allow tipping and instead just pay a higher wage and they factor that wage into the food price. This is pretty rare though and even the restaurants that say “we pay our servers a wage so please don’t tip” still allow tipping so that’s not good. I’m not sure how you break this in the US unless you pass some strict law disallowing tipping. Maybe something where the advertised price is all inclusive and no add-ons are allowed, so it must include tip, taxes, service charge, whatever. I don’t see that passing.
  • twelve40 4y ago
    The most confusing part for me is not the restaurants, where I agree there is currently no choice but to tip unless you want to rip off the workers, but all these other places in-between that try to guilt you into tipping but the workers get paid a regular wage.