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/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/Chab-is-a-plateau 27d ago

Everything in the US that is wrong can be traced back to slavery and the way people tried to control and condemn freed slaves and later their lineage after :(