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wildcardology@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Damn, tips used to be given after a job well done not before.
Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers.
wildcardology@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Damn, tips used to be given after a job well done not before.
agnomeunknown@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Tips may have been that way a hundred years ago but I’ve been in the restaurant industry in the US for over 15 years, and for the duration tips have been used as a means to offload labor costs to the customer. They are not optional for the majority of people who work for tips, they are the difference between paying bills and not.
The practice is antiquated and should be completely removed as the standard way to compensate restaurant workers. But the thing that anti tippers always seem to miss is that the labor costs will still be there and the owners are not going to take it out of their cut. The menu prices will per force go up when companies get rid of tips. The same people will be complaining about that just as loudly, I’m willing to bet.
As I said in another comment, it’s a bad system, but if you don’t tip, you’re a bad person.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
That’s where you’re not only wrong, you’ve become part of the problem by claiming that.
whostosay@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Amen, there are so many places in the world where you can directly compare pricing and see that not only is it usually cheaper when this horseshit greed system isnt involved, but the customers/workforce is happier with the end product.
That said, if you do not tip in the US for servers/employees not compensated, you’re an asshole. Boycotting the person trying to feed themselves rather than the company as a whole only makes a difference in that it makes you more of an asshole.
Nerdulous@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Yes the correct and honorable thing would be for the employer to absorb the costs but this is America we’re talking about. We’re currently going through record inflation almost purely because of corporate greed. These companies saw an opportunity to blame their massive price increases on COVID/labor costs/ materials cost even though these are only small factors. Yet year over year they’re increasing profits. I have zero doubt that if they switched away from tipping systems that they would use that to falsely justify price increases.
max@feddit.nl 2 years ago
Then why can I, as a student, afford to go out to eat in a non-tipping country?
agnomeunknown@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Different things are different, I’m talking about the United States
max@feddit.nl 2 years ago
I know. But often Americans say that eating out can’t be affordable if it weren’t for tips. The rest of the world seems to prove otherwise, that’s my point.
adrian783@lemmy.world 2 years ago
the prevalence of iPads with 20,22,25 percent tips for a coffee is having me question the entire practice for sure.
im also seeing reataurants operating server robots now. for those I only tip 10%.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Yeah and before the Ipads it was a little jar with the word “tips” on it, but nobody uses cash anymore so they have to ask for that $1 (are coffees still $5? Mine is $2.95 so it’s $0.59) digitally now. Of course, the robot probably isn’t worried about making rent this month so it’s probably safe not to tip bots, but I don’t mind sliding a dollar to the nice girl providing me the happy juice. If I did I’d just make coffee at home or stop at the gas station and serve myself though, I wouldn’t go to a place with a human that expected a tip. Idk, if I’m going to force someone to suffer I’d rather just eat the bullet and drink shitty gas station coffee than be the 100th person to symbolically tell someone to fuck themselves and die this morning while they contemplate if they’d rather pay the power bill or get groceries this week but that’s just me.