I don't tip and I'm proud of it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do what you want, but having been a server in restaurants all through college, we didn't even make minimum wage. If you want to take up the cause to eliminate tipping, personally I'd find another way to do it rather than denying tips to people who rely on the income (especially during covid).

Having been a server in restaurants all through college, I have a hard time believing you. I agree that there are much better ways to make your point than taking tips away from servers, but where were you waiting on tables that you didn't make minimum wage?

+1, also worked in restaurants as server, we made at least min wage not minimum tipped wage . If we do not earn enough to reach minimum wage guess what the restaurant owners will have to pay the difference. So it’s our tipped min wage plus tip . If we get no tip we get regular min wage. It’s LAW. ThTs why serves didn’t support the change where tipped will be eliminated and we only get regular min wage.

I'm pp who worked at regional chain (like Denny's) and didn't always make minimum. You are correct that the employer is supposed to make up shortfalls if the tips don't bring earnings up to mininum wage. My manager explained that requirement when I started my job. At the same time, he explained that if I reported shortfalls, the restaurant would assume it was because my service was deficient and they wouldn't want to employ a waitress whose service didn't measure up.

And the thing is, restaurants get away with this, because the individual employee doesn't have the wherewithal to contest it. Even if you report them to W&I, you're still out a job. The tipped minimum enables restaurants to outsource the payment of their employee's wages, enables customers to mistreat waitstaff, and enables this kind of wage fraud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tipping is archaic and I don't believe in it. Other countries don't tip either and we need to get into the business of not tipping so we shift as a culture towards providing employees a fair wage.

Are you a regular at any restaurants? If so, I was seriously think about not being one asap.

100% guarantee someone is fing with your food in some way if you are a regular and known nontipper.

Word spreads to the BOH, nicknames are given, and workers know where all of the blind spots are for the cameras.

[Anonymous]

OP, I came across as an ass and I apologize. I just believe we need to start paying our employees a FAIR wage, not just minimum, I'm talking about a living wage tied to inflation.

I may not tip but my DH does.

[Anonymous]

What is with all these super-obvious troll posts lately? We can’t even get good trolls anymore. Sad.

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Anyone work food service who does NOT want a $15 minimum wage to pass?

My SO is a bartender and he does not want this to pass in VA. Right now, on a good night, which is usually Wed-Sun, he makes ~$45-50/hr.

He makes $2.13/hr. Even on a bad night, like a Monday or Tuesday, which he doesn't have to work anymore since he's been there longer, he would walk way having made enough to average out ~$19/hr.

There are some years where he'll make more than I do with a masters degree. He and most of his coworkers don't want a $15 minimum wage. They don't want less tips and they know that is what will happen with a higher wage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lol at the people talking about THE LAW. Restaurants regularly do things like have you work cleaning before tables get in and then whoops, we overscheduled, send you home. During this time you make $2.13/hour, and if you want to complain, sure, here's the door, sue us for the extra $10 we should have paid you, we'll find another server by the weekend.

It's the law, but I've rarely seen it followed, and it's not worth the hassle to fight it. Get real.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I came across as an ass and I apologize. I just believe we need to start paying our employees a FAIR wage, not just minimum, I'm talking about a living wage tied to inflation.

I may not tip but my DH does.

You're still an ass if you don't tip. The bolded just means your husband isn't. Not tipping people does NOTHING to encourage restaurants to pay their workers a fair wage, nor does it promote laws that would require that. It's being cheap dressed up as being progressive, and it's a terrible disguise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tipping is archaic and I don't believe in it. Other countries don't tip either and we need to get into the business of not tipping so we shift as a culture towards providing employees a fair wage.

1. We are not other countries. 2. If you had a loved one working low income wages you would want others to tip. 3. You are a selfish horrible person!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I came across as an ass and I apologize. I just believe we need to start paying our employees a FAIR wage, not just minimum, I'm talking about a living wage tied to inflation.

I may not tip but my DH does.

You're still an ass if you don't tip. The bolded just means your husband isn't. Not tipping people does NOTHING to encourage restaurants to pay their workers a fair wage, nor does it promote laws that would require that. It's being cheap dressed up as being progressive, and it's a terrible disguise.

How do we bring about change, then?

[Anonymous]

Things don’t end well for you, Mr Pink.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tipping is archaic and I don't believe in it. Other countries don't tip either and we need to get into the business of not tipping so we shift as a culture towards providing employees a fair wage.

Here's that attention you ordered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree. No one tips me for doing my job!

Do you make under minimum wage? $2.13 an hour?

Yeah, I didn't think so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lol at the people talking about THE LAW. Restaurants regularly do things like have you work cleaning before tables get in and then whoops, we overscheduled, send you home. During this time you make $2.13/hour, and if you want to complain, sure, here's the door, sue us for the extra $10 we should have paid you, we'll find another server by the weekend.

It's the law, but I've rarely seen it followed, and it's not worth the hassle to fight it. Get real.

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Then maybe we should deal with those issues instead of putting it on restaurant patrons to make up the wages or get called an asshole, when the people taking advantage are the restaurants themselves?

[Anonymous]

My friend worked in a house of pancakes and their was a no tipper. They always spit in his food. I recall he once came in for dinner in an IHOP no less and order salads and they spit right in the dressing and I watched him eat it

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Anonymous wrote:That’s an excuse and you know it.

Realize that waitstaff make $2.13 an hour if you don’t tip. Unless your Mackenzie Bezos, your move is just shortchanging poor people everywhere.

I’m gonna guess you’ve never waited tables either. Try it. I bet you wouldn’t last a week.

This is a lie. Please stop perpetuating it. If someone who makes a tipped wage doesn't earn the equivalent of minimum wage during their shift, the employer is legally required to make up the difference.

Oh, please. You are so naive. In reality, if you press the issue, they either fire you ("at will") or cut your hours. They know servers can't afford to sue them.

Grow up.