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I'm Canadian. Servers now make minimum wage. I have stopped tipping. It doesn't make any sense that a server who is making above minimum wage has to rely on customers paying a gratuity. Where were my tips when I was a lifeguard? Or a tour guide? I didn't get a bonus for doing a good job landscaping. I'm not angry at the servers. I'm upset at the ones who blame customers for the shady business that they help keep open.
Minimum wage isn't a lot of money, especially of you're living in a city like Toronto. There's an expectation for a server that they're getting a tip, so when you don't do that you're inherently guaranteed to give them a negative feeling emotion.
That's true. On the other hand, if a server accepts my tip which helps their employer to keep underpaying them that gives me a negative feeling emotion.
So it depends on who you want to have the negative impact, yourself or the person you chose to serve you that day
Then you should focus on contacting your representatives urging them to increase the minimum wage, not perpetuate an unfair system that forces workers to depend on the generosity of random customers. I've worked on minimum wage restaurant gigs, your tips don't get shared with the back of l the house staff who are busting their ass in the hot kitchen making the food you eat, while pretty stack racks all the tips taking plates from point A to B