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In America I generally tip pretty well regardless of service, just because in some states their pay is so low. In some states when you receive tips, you can be
by mseidl 13y ago
In America I generally tip pretty well regardless of service, just because in some states their pay is so low. In some states when you receive tips, you can be paid as low as 2.xx$ an hour. Which should be against the law.
In Germany a tip is not percentage based, but usually only 1-2€. But pay tends to be a little better, everybody has health insurance , sick time and vacation.
- smackfu 13y agoYour pay with tips has to be above minimum wage. I'm not even sure why they have that lower minimum wage for tipped employees, since it's pretty pointless.
- SixSigma 13y agoYou can thank the "other NRA", National Restaurant Association; employs 750 staffers and spent nearly $4 million on lobbying and campaign donations in 2012 alone. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-simon/national-restaurant-association-policies_b_4782261.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-simon/national-restaur...
- learc83 13y ago>In some states when you receive tips, you can be paid as low as 2.xx$ an hour. Which should be against the law. But if the server doesn't make at least minimum wage, the employer has to pay the difference. So it already is against the law.
- nathos 13y agoOf course in reality, if that server doesn't make at least minimum wage in tips and tries to claim it from their employer, they'll simply get fired.
- learc83 13y agoI've had plenty of server friends who've had to do this and didn't get fired. In larger companies where payroll is handled by software, they'll do it automatically.
- Semaphor 13y ago>In Germany a tip is not percentage based, but usually only 1-2€. What? 5-10% is the usual recommended amount. See Wikipedia [1] [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinkgeld https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinkgeld
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