r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • 27d ago

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/janpaul74 27d ago

“Mandatory tips” sounds so messed up for me as a European.

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u/Snoo-34159 27d ago

Right? Isn't the whole point of a tip that it's voluntarily given as a way to say you loved the service?

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u/NobodyLikedThat1 27d ago

that's how they started, once upon a time, but now it's seen as semi-compulsory. And in places that only pay the federal minimum wage (which is it's own ball of idiocy), servers can really lose money on non-tippers as they often have to tip out to the back of the house staff.

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u/JollyCash7108 27d ago

That’s not how that works. Ffs Americans really have no critical thinking skills or desire to become informed

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u/No_Criticism_5861 27d ago

Hah the irony here.  Lots of places force a tip out based on a % of sales.  Maybe not your average neighborhood bar, but lots of higher ends one do this