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Almost anyone coming from overseas to the US thinks it's pretty weird that the US has permitted the creation of a class of workers who can be paid dirt and must
by anakaine 3y ago
Almost anyone coming from overseas to the US thinks it's pretty weird that the US has permitted the creation of a class of workers who can be paid dirt and must live off the gratuities of an informal societal expectation.
Why on earth you've not got strictly enforced mandated minimum wages in many places, where the wages are above the poverty line and there should be a low to nil expectation that as a customer I'm having to reach in to my wallet to pay for their services when I'm also paying the business seems abhorrent.
Tipping should be something that is an exception for exceptional service, and an unexpected act of good will, rather than an expectation.
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoThey still are guaranteed to make minimum wage: if the tips + salary don’t pass the minimum wage threshold, the employer still has to pay the difference.
- paxys 3y agoThat is a meaningless rule when you can get fired for not making enough tips.
- fsniper 3y agoAnother aspect is customer is expected - no "required" to tip.
- MichaelNolan 3y agoThey almost certainly will be fired. At every restaurant I’ve worked at, the servers made well above minimum wage. If some server is not getting tipped, then management will assume they are doing a horrible job. And I’m not talking about fancy restaurants, just casual places like Red Robin/Applebees.
- pie_flavor 3y agoAnd then they eat at absolutely any restaurant in the country, and are doubly confused at how the US service employees are so cheerful and helpful and etc. It fulfills some function, whether or not it's +EV.