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What is a “restaurant” in this case? Its owners? The owners absolutely care that tipping is happening

• spondylosaurus 3y ago
  Why? Unless tips go to the owners, which to my understanding is generally not the case.
  • Retric 3y ago
    Because employees quit if they don’t get enough tips.
    • ForestCritter 3y ago
      no they just hire someone else to work in their place. Restaurant owners I've worked for don't care if customers tip, that's the servers problem. And cooks don't care either if they are the reason the server doesn't get a tip. They get full wages regardless.
      • AnthonyMouse 3y ago
        The employer can't pay employees less than they can get somewhere else or no one will take the job.
        • ForestCritter 3y ago
          funny have you noticed the huge shortage of restauraunt workers lately, hmmm I wonder why
  • mikem170 3y ago
    Owners are supposed to make up the difference if tipped employee federal minimum wage plus tips ($2.13/hour + tips) is less than the regular federal minimum wage ($7.25/hour). So that means the first $5.12 of tips each hour goes into the owner's pocket, not the employee's.
    • chefandy 3y ago
      They often don't. Wage abuse in the restaurant industry is rampant. The current purpose of tipping is to have staff that essentially works on commission so restaurants don't really have to pay them, and getting 20% off the gross usually isn't a bad deal... But if you get a string of shit tippers, $7.25 an hour isn't worth much in rural Nebraska, let alone cities where most restaurants exist. This is a career for many people who have families to feed and clothe, mortgages and rent to pay, etc. "But they still make minimum wage" is an excuse that dissolves once you move beyond places that employ part-time high school students. Your electrician would also survive on their other customers if you stiffed them— the difference is that it's illegal. Even though stiffing waitstaff is not illegal, our country's social contract states that you tip a minimum of 15% (and usually 20%) when you dine out. If you stiff them altogether, they even get taxed on what the IRS assumes they were tipped at a minimum. No matter what kind of BS justification people break out, usually styled as a righteous social protest supposedly in defense of the people they're screwing, not tipping employees making tipped wages is, morally, theft of services.