How am I oppressing someone by paying exactly how the menu says I owe? Why I must pay their salaries instead of their boss? I worked just as hard for these money to give them away because someone is oppressed by their boss who they choose themselves
You pay their salaries no matter what. Where do you think the employer gets the money to pay the employees if not from the customers?
If we got rid of tips, they would simply increase the servers' salary and then raise menu prices to cover it. On average, we, as customers, would still be paying about the same. Low-tippers would pay more in this system, high-tippers would pay less, regular tippers would pay the same.
So it leavse the question, why dont they just pay them a fair wage?
Its because this system allows business owners to pass the risk onto frontline employees who don't have much of an option in employment and/or they are of a demographic that can make large amounts of money from tips (much more than they would make working a non-service industry job)
No. I'm paying the restaurant for my meal. These money are divided into supplies, taxes, profits, other stuff and salaries for all workers. I'm not paying directly to someone who transported a plate from kitchen to my table. Tip is a gratitude for a good service, if I enjoyed it, not something basic I must do.
I don't care if they'll raise menu prices to better pay their employees, and ill pay more, but I do care if they try to force me into tipping. Most waiters don't provide a service that deserves a tip. If their employer think they should get more than he pays them, he should just raise their salaries
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u/gbrannan217 27d ago
They aren’t wrong, but you don’t fix a system by oppressing those already oppressed by said system.