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If a waiter does not make enough in tips for minimum wage, the businesses is legally required to cover the difference. So let's stop with the guilt trip. Part of the problem stems from the same servers that oppose doing away with the tip system because they make so much more from it.
Ha.
I've served plenty of time in the food service industry and I can tell you that the number of restaurants who actually "make up the difference" to minimum wage in the absence of tips is zero. Even though it's a legal requirement, I've never set foot in a restaurant that actually does this.
No one tracks cash tips. And yes, the servers like it that way. Because cash tips are money under the table and they're not taxed. But your boss ain't paying you jack shit over that $2.13 an hour because who is going to prove it?
Why should the customer support a tax grift?
I believe you when you say this.
But why is that the customer's problem? You have legal protection should you wish to pursue it. The fact that you accept the situation shouldn't mean it's on everyone else to support it.
I grew up in the US so I'm annoyed by tipping but personally wouldn't boycott it. But i would also have no issue with those that do. My biggest gripe is this push for 18-20% as a new normal.
...it's only the customer's problem if they exploit commercial arrangements where gratuity is expected: 15% for table-service ±5% for quality of service...if you don't wish to engage that system patronise another restaurant; there are more counter-service options available than ever before these days...
...for those stupid card-swipe gratuity options, just ignore the recommendations and do your own math, or manually enter zero if it's not table-service...i can understand foreign travellers feeling overwhelmed by POS systems proffering gratuity at every turn, but that's a UI problem which can be completely ignored in every instance other that table-service or similar concierge arrangements, and if someone's patronising the latter sort of establishment they already know where gratuity is expected...
"not only is this a gross system of exploitation, our law and order government is also completely ignoring the few rules they introduced to lessen the suffering"
Yep, that's exactly the size of it.
$7.25/hour isnt enough to live on. Servers still need the tips to survive. That's $1,160 gross per month with 4-40 hour weeks.
Sounds like we should raise minimum wage.
I nearly doubled last time it was raised, and needs to at least double again.
The system really needs to change, so that prices aren't constantly rising too.
well I already spent my tip money at the department store when an employee helped me, I didn't budget to have to tip every service worker I interact with
and it's federal law, so applies in all states
If it were enforced, it would
unenforced laws in a country are nobody's problem but that country's. One can't blame tourists for one's own lack of enforcement.
You seemed to say that federal law provides protection for underpaid workers, and I pointed out that it doesn't provide that protection. You then blame the country for the lack of protection, which seems tantamount to victim-blaming here - you seem to imply they shouldn't be working where they are.
I agree that the tourists are not the cause of the issue - but are places that engage in this practice places you want to patronize?
Even if it was enforced to the letter of the law, that's still only $1,160 gross wages per month (assuming the employee got a full 40 hours for 4 weeks). Federal law stipulates that workers are paid at least US minimum wage which is $7.25/hour. Federal law doesnt say anything about guaranteeing the raised minimum wage rate set by any state legislature.
again, that is your country's problem, not mine. You're a first world country, supposedly.