I worked food service in the early 90s. I remember a discussion coming up about a local eatery that started emulating Starbucks with the tip jar. We all found i

I worked food service in the early 90s. I remember a discussion coming up about a local eatery that started emulating Starbucks with the tip jar. We all found it incredibly rude. When you work behind a counter you don't get paid via the weird US minimum cash wage/tip model. You get a full wage (at least in my experience). The idea that a full wage worker should get tips as a matter of course is strange to me. I wonder how young the defenders of this practice here are. My upvotes indicate there are people who agree with me, but not many have said so in these replies. Try to look at it from the perspective of someone who grew up in a world where this wasn't normal. In the case of table side food servers, tips are not charity. They're a customary component of the wage - wether anyone likes this or not - and that's why the government carves out special exemptions and tax rules for that case.