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Tipping: Do you agree with the practice?

Your view on tipping


  • Total voters
    39
I honestly wish that our tipping culture was more like Europe’s where restaurant positions were better paid in terms of base salary, making tipping unnecessary.
 
I hope you told him why.
 
A function of the modern POS systems, mostly. The bill often comes with three or four options.

Cash tips can still reflect subjective feelings of service. We just tipped fifty on fifty the other day because the service was exceptional.

OK, but in your $50 tip on a $50 (meal?) order example you likely paid someone (at least) $50/hour more than their base wage. I’m sure that you made their day.
 
Tips should not count towards base salary. My tip is not intended for the owner. I'd like to see tipping exceptions to minimum wage eliminated federally.
 
Tips should not count towards base salary. My tip is not intended for the owner. I'd like to see tipping exceptions to minimum wage eliminated federally.
Isn’t that illegal basically everywhere? Then again wouldn’t surprise me if in some states it was. It is just a different kind of wage theft.
 
OK, but in your $50 tip on a $50 (meal?) order example you likely paid someone (at least) $50/hour more than their base wage. I’m sure that you made their day.
It was breakfast. Waitress was by herself. Counter and floor. Nailed it. Flawless execution. I hope she banked.
 
I will leave an upside-down penny for execrable or rude service. Most younger servers don't know what it means, but older ones do.
 

Yep, but if a server is attending to 4 tables of customers and they each dine for half an hour and tip $10 (per table) then that server is making $80/hour over their (otherwise meager) wage and likely not reporting even 25% of it for income tax purposes.
 

Tipping should not be assumed and effectively built into wages; it should be reserved for only the most exceptional service rather than being standard, expected and essentially needed to subsidize low hourlies because stingy employers will not pay their workers a reasonable amount despite being perfectly capable of doing so.
 
The only thing i would say is it is better to order direct if you are trying to support local business. Grubhub and the like really eat into their bottom line.
 
Like every restaurant is jacking up their prices anyways, just jack it up a bit more and pay employees a real wage.
 
You can hold cash back if you aren't keeping a running total, or required to pay out the end of your shift.

You will report every last penny of cc/phone tips.
 
OK, I am not sure what you are getting at. Maybe I am a bit slow this morning.
 

Isn’t that illegal basically everywhere? Then again wouldn’t surprise me if in some states it was. It is just a different kind of wage theft.
In some states, minimum wage for tipped jobs is still $2.13 an hour. If the workers don't get enough tips to bring them up to the federal minimum, the owner has to make up the difference. You can guess what probably happens to the server in a right to work for less / fire at will state when the owner has to make up the difference regularly. When you tip in one of those states, a portion of your tip is paying for base salary, which should be the responsibility of the owner.
 
You think supermarket clerks are taking it too far, I have had online shopping websites ask for a tip.
 
Like every restaurant is jacking up their prices anyways, just jack it up a bit more and pay employees a real wage.
You can offset better with good inventory control. Most of the losses are in kitchen labor, BOH mistakes, wastage and portion control.

FOH is made to carry BOH costs.
 
You think supermarket clerks are taking it too far, I have had online shopping websites ask for a tip.
Self-checkouts are now doing this too; it's absolutely insane.
 
I thought you meant like the owner taking a portion of the tips directly for themselves.
 
You can hold cash back if you aren't keeping a running total, or required to pay out the end of your shift.

You will report every last penny of cc/phone tips.

Why? It’s not being reported to IRS or showing up on a 1099.
 
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