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Imagine that I go to a movie theater and order a soda and a beer. The cashier pours the soda into a cup from the fountain machine. The bartender pours the bee
by njovin 3y ago
Imagine that I go to a movie theater and order a soda and a beer.
The cashier pours the soda into a cup from the fountain machine.
The bartender pours the beer into a plastic pint from a tap.
Why is the bartender deserving of a tip in this scenario?
- woodruffw 3y agoThe "stupid" answer is because it's customary in (much of) the US to tip a bartender, even if that bartender is just serving you a beer. Tipping is both economic and customary in nature; you'll find that most people agree that the economics that encourage it are dumb, but that the dumbness of those economics doesn't make changing customs easy.
- smelendez 3y agoThe scenario where you have a mix of customarily tipped and untipped food service workers in the same venue is especially weird, though.
- jkestner 3y agoThe tip is not for any particular effort. It's just an inefficient way to pay the bartender a living wage. The employer should do it, but while I vote for higher minimum wages, lower cost of living, and back the Alamo Drafthouse unionization efforts, I also tip because I recognize that's part of the true cost of the labor, and I can afford to.