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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t penny pinch on restaurant workers. I tip in thr total amount. I couldn’t tell you the last time I looked at the Tex line item. It’s irrelevant. I just take the total bill, figure out what 10% is and double it. Done. It I can’t afford an extra $5 then maybe I should be cooking hamburger helper at home. [/quote]

Exactly!  What's hard about this?  I really am saddened to learn there are so many cheap, nasty people who think it's their right to reinvent the restaurant industry by withholding a bit of cash from service workers.  I really don't understand why they even go to restaurants since they so strongly disagree with the system.  Just to punish people, I guess.

I'm not just referring to tipping on tax but to all these anti-tipping threads.[/quote]

I only tip 5-10% at D.C. restaurants because there is [b]already[/b] a 10% tax included. For any restaurant adding an additional service charge, I leave no tip at all and – usually – I’ll also complain about a dish or two until the manager removes them from the bill. I mean, 10% tax + 18% SC is [b]way[/b] more than the customary 15%. The greed in D.C. is unconscionable so I have no qualms about getting comped for a few appetizers or drinks. The entire system needs an overhaul. Restaurant workers aren’t the critical pillars of society they make themselves out to be. They’re mostly peripheral and disposable people that otherwise add no value to society. [/quote]

You obviously don't understand the system at all.

The tax goes to the local jurisdiction government (in this case, the city).
The service charge goes to the restaurant and some of it gets distributed across the entire staff including the kitchen staff.  Some of the people receiving portions of the service charge (those who are not servers) are paid standard minimum wage, which in 2022 was 15.10 and January 1, 2023 moved up to $16.50.  But only a small portion of that service charge actually goes back to your server, who makes a subminimum standarized wage (was $5.35 in 2022).  If you add a tip on top of the service charge, that goes solely to your specific waiter.

Your ignorance of the system means that you are helping the restaurant industry continue to shortchange and persecute servers.  The service change added does not compensate servers for having a minimum wage tha tis roughly 1/3 of the minimum wage for other staff.  So, you need to tip additional on top of the service charge for it to go to your server.

Just saying the system is broken and that you won't play that game does nothing but segregates and abuses those with the least power to affect the system.  And calling them peripheral and disposable is just obnoxious and callous.  If this is how you think, you need to just stay out of restaurants.  You're a general jerk and a terrible person.[/quote]

Wrong on all accounts!! Any D.C. server that fails to earn minimum wage through tips is paid additional money directly by the restaurant to ensure that every employee (even those on tips) is guaranteed to make at least minimum wage. Tips are icing on the proverbial cake. Second, taxes go to the government – of course, duh – but are then disproportionately redistributed to low-income workers via reduced income tax brackets, tax breaks galore, and unlimited handouts to the servers you imply are getting short-changed. The [b]only[/b] servers not benefiting from this classic wealth redistribution scam are the ones earning enough to become progressively ineligible for the plethora of tax breaks and operations within only low tax brackets.

If anything, servers [b]should be tipping me[/b] for allowing them to bask in my glorious presence….[/quote]

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