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If you don't like tipping culture, don't screw the worker while inconveniencing the restaurant not at all. Boycott the restaurants unless they pay fair wages. Go to the grocery store. Plenty of good meals to be found there.
How about "I will pay you 100% of the bill in cash, you pocket it and I walk out. And promise me you rise up against those bastards."?
that's just moving the responsibility to the masses as usual
If a waiter does not make enough in tips for minimum wage, the businesses is legally required to cover the difference. So let's stop with the guilt trip. Part of the problem stems from the same servers that oppose doing away with the tip system because they make so much more from it.
$7.25/hour isnt enough to live on. Servers still need the tips to survive. That's $1,160 gross per month with 4-40 hour weeks.
Sounds like we should raise minimum wage.
Ha.
I've served plenty of time in the food service industry and I can tell you that the number of restaurants who actually "make up the difference" to minimum wage in the absence of tips is zero. Even though it's a legal requirement, I've never set foot in a restaurant that actually does this.
No one tracks cash tips. And yes, the servers like it that way. Because cash tips are money under the table and they're not taxed. But your boss ain't paying you jack shit over that $2.13 an hour because who is going to prove it?
I believe you when you say this.
But why is that the customer's problem? You have legal protection should you wish to pursue it. The fact that you accept the situation shouldn't mean it's on everyone else to support it.
I grew up in the US so I'm annoyed by tipping but personally wouldn't boycott it. But i would also have no issue with those that do. My biggest gripe is this push for 18-20% as a new normal.
"not only is this a gross system of exploitation, our law and order government is also completely ignoring the few rules they introduced to lessen the suffering"
Yep, that's exactly the size of it.
and it's federal law, so applies in all states
If it were enforced, it would
unenforced laws in a country are nobody's problem but that country's. One can't blame tourists for one's own lack of enforcement.
But that requires a personal inconvenience instead of feeling good while saving money.
Visitors staying in hotels also don't have the luxury of a stocked kitchen to cook meals
If you can't afford to feed yourself without helping somebody get robbed, then you can't afford the vacation.
Give the line cooks free drugs and the waitress iww pamphlets.
The grocery store also exploits.