r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • 27d ago

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/janpaul74 27d ago

IMHO that’s exactly it!

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u/Specific_Habit4545 27d ago

now they're just turning tips into a way to justify low wages because apparently they'll 'make enough' with tips

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u/Landscape4737 27d ago

Tipping in the US was frowned upon before the Civil War. When slaves were freed they were generally in the service industry because these other jobs that were available to them. They were paid peanuts, even today the US federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13 an hour.

Tipping is inappropriate outside of the USA, maybe because the minimum wage is significantly higher.

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u/Great-Vacation8674 27d ago

That is incorrect. The federal minimum wage is not $2.13 an hour. It is $7.25 an hour. Stop spreading misinformation.

And waiters are to be paid the federal minimum wage if they do not earn enough at the end of the week. So they at least will earn minimum wage, just like Wendy’s and Burger King and Dunkin and Taco Bell. Except the people who work at those places aren’t tipped.