Anonymous wrote:Why does a living wage work in countries in Europe where there is no tipping?

There is, it is just called a service charge instead.

Why does a living wage work in countries in Europe where there is no tipping?

I’m doing more cooking and only drive thru if I want take out because everyone right now has their hand out with the cup, expecting extra covid tips. I’ve become a really great cook in the past 6 months because I refuse to to tip when I drive to pick up my own food. You don’t get $20 for putting my food in a box! So I don’t want to tip, I cook for myself. Not hard.

Everyone else is overtopping now so I don’t feel bad not tipping. I only tip for a sit down meal or salon services. Everyone else can GTFO.

Anonymous wrote:This may have already been addressed, but in restaurants, why is it expected to pay a certain percentage on the price of the meal? If I purchase a $40 entree verses a $20 entree, it’s no more work for the server to bring it to my table. Same goes for ordering an expensive bottle of wine vs cheaper.

So if you’re only going to pay $5 tip on your $40 entree, do you also pay $5 tip on your $10 sandwich? After all, it’s the same amount of work for the server to bring both to your table. If not, if your tipping practices only favor *your* wallet, then you are a hypocrite.

Anonymous wrote:I had a staff member who hated tipping. I told him great now we don’t have to pay you the $40,000 annual bonus.

After all you got paid to do your job why should you get an extra tip just for doing the job you were paid to do.

He says that is different. It is not, he still wants his tip.

It’s absolutely the same thing. But now folks expect and rely on bonuses.

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Anonymous wrote:We tried that with Prop 77 and the city council overruled it.

If the tipping culture annoys you, patronize businesses that pay their employees a living wage and provide benefits and make tipping optional, as it should be. The problem is that so many jobs don't pay enough to live on employers expect customers to make up the difference.

Define living wage.

THis is DCUM so about $350K.

We make that and we can barely pay the bills. No money left for tips.

We make less than half. Still leave 20%. You must be overextended.

What bugs me is the added 18% tip on the bill just purchasing food for take out at the counter. Many of us are suffering financially right now but the service industry believes we need to float them now.

Agree with op.
The mandatory tipping culture Is nonsense

I had a staff member who hated tipping. I told him great now we don’t have to pay you the $40,000 annual bonus.

After all you got paid to do your job why should you get an extra tip just for doing the job you were paid to do.

He says that is different. It is not, he still wants his tip.

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Anonymous wrote:We tried that with Prop 77 and the city council overruled it.

If the tipping culture annoys you, patronize businesses that pay their employees a living wage and provide benefits and make tipping optional, as it should be. The problem is that so many jobs don't pay enough to live on employers expect customers to make up the difference.

Define living wage.

THis is DCUM so about $350K.

We make that and we can barely pay the bills. No money left for tips.

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Anonymous wrote:We tried that with Prop 77 and the city council overruled it.

If the tipping culture annoys you, patronize businesses that pay their employees a living wage and provide benefits and make tipping optional, as it should be. The problem is that so many jobs don't pay enough to live on employers expect customers to make up the difference.

Define living wage.

THis is DCUM so about $350K.

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Anonymous wrote:We tried that with Prop 77 and the city council overruled it.

If the tipping culture annoys you, patronize businesses that pay their employees a living wage and provide benefits and make tipping optional, as it should be. The problem is that so many jobs don't pay enough to live on employers expect customers to make up the difference.

Define living wage.

My in-laws have an ice cream shop. How much do you think your ice cream should cost so they can pay $20 an hour or so? Their profit margin is already very slim. All of their employees are high school aged or in college. They don’t have trouble keeping employees but none of the employees expect to live off their salaries.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it bad to be cheap? Last time I checked that was not one of the seven deadly sins.
I respect cheap people and think it is a good quality

Frugality is a virtue — economize, spend wisely. Being cheap is a character flaw. Don’t be cheap!

It is not a sin to be cheap. It is a virtue and a grace. Everybody doesn't need to constantly spend money or pay for useless stuff. I think media and corporations have made it a compulsion to be always spending money

Do you not understand the difference between “cheap” and “frugal?”

Clearly they don’t. And yet they also seem to understand that “cheap” is an insult, and are affronted at being thought so.

I would take it as a compliment
There are so many idiots who think you owe them. Most of the people say that to anyone when they have to pay their own way

If you don't tip your server, they are literally paying for the honor of waiting on you, since US tax law assumes a minimum level of tips for servers and taxes them accordingly.

Not “literally”. That makes no sense from an Econ of literary perspective.😂😂😂Words.

Anonymous wrote:We tried that with Prop 77 and the city council overruled it.

If the tipping culture annoys you, patronize businesses that pay their employees a living wage and provide benefits and make tipping optional, as it should be. The problem is that so many jobs don't pay enough to live on employers expect customers to make up the difference.

Define living wage.