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Why can't restaurants just pay their waiters more money?
I don't understand. Why are their entire livelihoods dependent upon optional tips? If restaurants paid their waiters more, then yes, their food would cost more, but that would be the real value of their food. Otherwise, people should be completely free to not tip, because it's legal. Unless someone makes a law saying that you must tip, or it's a crime.
I just think it's ridiculous. I'd rather just pay more money for food in a restaurant, and not have to tip unless I really wanted to. Does anyone else agree that it's messed up that the majority of money waiters make fluctuates, and is dependent upon charity?
Why is this allowed? I read somewhere that waiters can be paid like $2.13 an hour, by restaurants. If our culture says you should tip, and I tip a meal that cost $20 by 15%, and end up paying $23, why can't the food just cost $23? Cause now technically a waiter shouldn't get mad if someone doesn't tip since it's a legal thing to do. Unless they want to make it a law that one must tip a certain percentage.
By the way, I do tip, but this unnecessary system just annoys me. What next, Wal-Mart cuts its workers' pay to make their products even cheaper, and we're encouraged to tip their cashiers to make up the difference?
If a waiter gets mad when they don't get tipped they should be mad at their restaurant for paying them so little, and the government for allowing them to be paid so little
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Technically restaurants are required to pay you at least minimum wage. If your average reported tips amounts to less per week than minimum wage by the hours worked then the restaurant has to make up the difference. In practical reality, if you don't make enough to make minimum wage you get fired and replaced instantly.
My question is why do we not have mandatory gratuity everywhere you go. In Europe tipping is for above and beyond service only because they add 15 to 18 percent or even 20 percent service charge to all bills and the waiter is tipped by default. My answer is because people are entitled assholes who enjoy paying as little as possible and restaurants don't really give a fuck about their servers.
Having been a waiter plenty I wish tipping were automatic because it sucks giving someone good service and getting stiffed. As it stands that's part of the job you are expected to accept. Sucks, but no one has the ability to change it.
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