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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Explain to your kid what categories of workers are "tipped employees" whose salary is lower by law because the restaurant lobby convinced the DOL long ago that they make a ton in tips, effectively passing the obligation to pay the employee to the customer directly and enabling the worker to evade taxes more easily.[/quote]

This is not entirely true.  Waiters and other tipped employees must make at least the minimum wage in combined base pay plus tips.  If the tips received are not enough to cover this, the employer must make up the difference.

Not that this is an excuse for not tipping, but it is important to understand that no waiter (even the worst one) is actually making $2.something/hour.

Not sure where everyone is getting 20% as a standard tip, though.  15% is standard in the US for average service.  20% for good service.  And complain to the manager for bad service.

Counter service is generally not tipped, but I might do it if extra effort is involved in packaging my order or something similar.

Emily Post has a good discussion on tipping on her web site.

And, yes, adolescents should tip the same way as their parents.[/quote]

You clearly have never worked in a restaurant a day in your life.[/quote]

A server for many years and I agree with the above except the minimum wage part.  I've never known an employer to do this.  But everyone in the service industry (or maybe all industries) feel entitled to more money; hence tip jars in every single store, push for 20%+ tip of else you are "cheap", tipping anyone and everyone with the exception of medical, legal, and financial work[/quote]

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