• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    If you don’t like the tip economy, then don’t participate in it by avoiding restaurants that underpay their employees. But don’t take it out on the employee, they’re already the victim, and the restaurant owner doesn’t care about your protest.

    If anything, tip your server in cash, then run out on the bill.

    • TheparishofChigwell@sh.itjust.worksBanned from community
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      7 days ago

      The law says: nope.

      Change your laws. Stop whining. Servers voted to keep the tip system because they make bank. Don’t complain.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      The thing is, lots of tipped workers also fight being paid a living wage because they make way more money off tips than they otherwise would at a job with similar qualifications. If a server is only working 6 tables in an hour and averages only 5 dollars a table in tips, that’s $30 an hour. There’s no way that if tips were eliminated that restaurants would bump salaries that much.

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        6 days ago

        They could still collect tips, nobody is stopping that. They would just have to be paid a normal minimum wage as well. There is no reason that restaurant owners should be given the only exception in paying a minimum wage. Why should they be the only industry that forces the customer to directly pay their wages?

        Maybe we should do that with cops, or politicians. They get $2 an hour, and then get tips FROM THE CITIZENS, when they do their jobs correctly, and the Citizens are moved to show their appreciation. I suspect we’d see cops and politicians behave much better.