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Unionise and change the situation, or lose. I'm not paying money I can't spare because people refuse to help themselves. I repeat, fuck em.
So be upfront and tell them you won’t be tipping, and get the service you’re paying for.
Shouldn't servers tell the customers how much service they should expect based on the amount they plan to give in that case then?
That doesn't make you some champion of the working man, it makes you a cheap asshole. You are taking advantage of their labor more than the restaurant owner.
Advocate for change, absolutely. Refuse to patronize restaurants that expect/require tipping. I'd even say it's fair to stop buying into the tip-inflation (15% used to be standard, then 18, now 20+), that's fair, stick to 15%.
Hell, since at most restaurants you pay after the meal, why even pay that? After all, you knew there's a cost before you had the meal but "you can't spare it." I'm serious, you wan't to make a point, leaving a note that says "pay your staff better" and no cash makes a stronger statement than simply not tipping.
Living in the UK, I easily avoid giving any such slave driver my money.
I'm simply explaining why the rest of the world isn't like the US, workers collectively fought for rights, simple as that. Either get on with changing it, or keep complaining about being stiffed (while pocketing off the books income in a lot of cases). Shrug
This discussion is about Europeans coming to the US and giving money to the restaurants themselves (the slave drivers) but not tipping the staff (the slaves). Absolutely support a decision to protest such a system by not patronizing it; but patronizing it but not tipping is just cheap. You’re not some savior of workers rights, you’re a cheap asshole. That is a harsh truth you need to come to terms with.
Collective action against tipping isn't individual action against tipping tbf. Just needs yanks to build on this and push further to break down this shitty culture that only holds because consumers accept it.