Comment on "If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out"
AA5B@lemmy.world 23 hours agoAnd yet this is BS when many servers are among the highest paid minimum wage people.
And they’ve had this ridiculous tipping wage for decades, and used to be ok with 15% tips
Now suddenly everyone wants a tip regardless whether they’re a server, some tips are stolen by management, we pay “service fees” for the servers, and suddenly we also need 20+% on hugely inflated food prices.
I’m sorry but servers seem like the only part of the economy doing well
canniest_tod@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Doing well? They’re getting by like the rest of us. Why would they do that job if they weren’t being paid for it?
AA5B@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I’m saying they’re demanding higher tips on highly inflated food, while most of us don’t keep up with inflation
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
do you REALLY think the servers set the prices?
AA5B@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
No but I can do basic math: taking a higher percentage of higher than inflation price increases is higher than inflation
canniest_tod@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Since no one believes in unions and they’ve been legislatively kneecapped, social pressure to pay them tends to fall on the consumer. It’s not ideal, but such is the economy we live in.
Have you tried blaming someone with power?
AA5B@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Yes I’ve tried blaming my fellow voter, tried to persuade them to raise the minimum wage for all workers and do away with the tip wage altogether
Maybe they’ll still do better than the rest of us, or maybe not, but it’ll put them in the same boat as everyone else, or at least in the same water