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Only a European could find a way to express their “progessiveism” by stiffing underpaid workers and somehow acting smug and morally superior for it, as if their shit smells like roses.
Self-righteous euro-trash deprive workers of pay they know the workers deserve, in order to stick it to management, who is unaffected by this action. Great work, guys, way to attack the victims of a bad system by making whipping boys of them, I’m sure that their bosses rolling in money from all the extra business are VERY upset. What a bunch of assholes. I’m sure these same pieces of animated fecal matter get upset when tourists to their countries ignore all the local customs and mistreat the workers.
That’ll show those service workers for working in the US.
Don’t get me wrong I fucking hate tipping culture so much and am eternally grateful that I don’t live in the US but who are you really punishing here?
Seriously. This is literally the kind of thing y’all call us “entitled” for.
Why are you entitled to a tip for bringing my food from the collection counter to my table?
Or spinning around the iPad tablet?
Just fucking pay your humans properly. I don’t get a tip for doing my job, they just pay me.
Fucks sake fix your shit, America.
imagine being so out of touch with reality that you lump all americans into one mentality.
you’re angry at some idea of an “american” you made up in your mind. not one that’s real.
I dunno man at least I’m being the bossmans bottom bitch.
If you can’t see how fucked tipping culture is you’re too cooked.
It’s because you think you’re entitled to ignore norms you don’t like when you’re in a foreign country.
I mean… what does the US do in every country, every single fucking time?
Ignore the norms, and do whatever they fucking want anyway.
Blow me.
I hope whatever is bothering you gets better
Yes, I too hope you get better.
There there
Workers in Europe weren’t handed the rights they have, in some cases people literally died fighting for them. The only tip I have for American service workers is “unionize”.
Lmao you think we were handed this? We’ve been fighting for our rights to unionize for literally decades on end. Our government works with companies to literally kill us if we don’t go back to work. Men women and children have died fighting for the rights we DO have.
Fuck off with this “you’re only getting this because you aren’t trying hard enough to unionize” bullshit. Our rights have been bled for by hundreds of thousands over the years.
Don’t make excuses, try harder.
Our rights have been bled for by hundreds of thousands over the years.
Exactly, so honour the people that paid for your rights with their blood, and fight your exploiter instead of picking fights with other workers.
And that’s why it’s moral for me to mislead someone who is paid $2/hour into serving me for money I’m not going to give them 😌
Sure is telling that nobody who thinks this will tell their server upfront they’re not tipping, lmao
Whose misleading who? I would say that in this case, it would be the people that are not up front about the expected price of a service.
If tipping is required up front, then include it in the prices (and I don’t mean as an half hidden fee tacked on the announced prices like American businesses started doing).
American service workers are putting the blame on the wrong people, the only ones scamming them are their bosses.
I would say that in this case, it would be the people that are not up front about the expected price of a service.
So when an employer is misleading you the correct response is to short change the underpaid employee, who will have it come out of their inconsistent, unreliable pay? Can’t relate.
And you’re absolutely misleading the worker when you come to a place where tipping is expected and then don’t tip. They aren’t being nice to you and paying attention because they’re so enthralled by you, it’s because you’re expected to pay them. If you aren’t, say so.
You think American workers haven’t suffered and died fighting for their rights? I know this information is not exactly front and center in history books for reasons of shame and intentional obfuscation, but American worker rights history is stained in blood just as yours is.
Let’s say all customers just stop tipping, then the workers will be forced to find another job if the restaurants don’t start paying a living wage?
Because they’re definitely in a job they need tips to survive in due to the availability of other jobs that don’t.
Yep the the American job market is fucked, and it will be painful to change it especially when the people in charge are paid by the oligarchs.
One less painful way of moving away from tipping culture would be something like this: gradually increasing the base salary for workers, as I recall the minimum wage is below $3 for tipped staff. And then gradually decreasing the maximum allowed tip.
But the problem is: Show me a single state where the politicians would agree and then have the balls to go through with it while the oligarchs and supreme court will do everything in their power to keep the status quo.
The restaurant will be forced to start paying a living wage or it won’t have any waitstaff left.
Restaurants usually take the latter option. I’ve been to plenty of places that are down to the owner cooking and his wife serving, no hired staff at all.
Restaurants are never gonna pay more to the staff than they collect for meals sold. Most of the restaurant’s income (if they aren’t a fancy place that sells a lot of alcohol) goes toward paying for food, rent, and utilities.
If the servers don’t get tips anymore, they might simply strike for a living wage. The current system just makes servers even more dependent with every single tip that replaces what should be a wage. Somethings gotta give, it’s not the workers, and the bosses wont budge without pressure, so even if it’s hard, it might be the only way something really changes for the better.
They aren’t going to strike from this event. Wait staff don’t have insurance or savings. Restaurant owners can’t afford to pay living wages with benefits; the margins are razor-thin as-is.
Have you never heard of strike funds? If service workers can’t even pay rent they’re going to strike and walk out, breeding a crisis that will make tipping culture untenable.
I’m being punished by being forced to tip.
Don’t go to the US
For many reasons.
In the current system it will not change unless it is forced by things like this or progressive policies. You want them to just keep it going how it is?
World cup is too short term to change it, will have to be slow policy push for minimum wages.
Yeah, actually. Waiting tables is one of the few, ubiquitous jobs you can get without higher education that has a reasonable chance to pay well.
This flight against tipping is crab mentality. You’re not doing them any favors, you’re just going to lower their wage to $18/hr flat, with no healthcare and still shitty part-time hours, and some corpo is gonna pocket the difference.
Servers in USA don’t get 18.00 flat, usually.
“things like this” don’t contribute to changing it all though it doesn’t matter when the owner still gets theirs thats all they care about.
Only collective action can contribute to changing this, this is a start. Up to Yanks to carry on which will create a crisis where workers strike.
You’re not going to change the fundamentally broken culture of the US by punishing a few service workers. We’re not talking about the current system being good or whether or not it should change, we’re talking about a bunch of tourists refusing to tip.
I mean it’s not an individual act here, it’s starting to look like collective action. A mass boycott of tipping would force a crisis where workers walk out en masse. Euros are giving Yanks the push they need to build on this, with unions, a collective organization, strike funds. This is the only path towards tipping abolition, a relic of class oppression and a mechanism by which capitalists shift wage costs onto consumers, esp disgusting when we know attractive or white servers often receive more than equally skilled counterparts, deepening racial and gender pay gaps and fosters a power imbalance that enables harassment: 74% of female servers in the U.S. have experienced sexual harassment, often tolerated because their income depends on pleasing the customer.
If you want people to strike then support them, misleading them into thinking you’re going to be paying them for their time and labor (tipping is expected in the US, which is why in many states it’s legal to pay servers barely more than $2/hour) is just a dick move. Or just be upfront with them and tell them you’re not going to be tipping and get served accordingly. Or go to a place where non-tipped workers are employed. There are a lot of options that aren’t ‘shit on someone working for $2/hour and tell them it’s for their own good’.
Asking from a place of genuinely not knowing; are there a reasonable number of places where non-tipped workers are employed in this sort of sector? If so, it might be really handy to put together a list, so people can more easily make the choice to go there, rather than stiffing staff who need the tips to survive.
It’s going to vary wildly as to who is paired expecting to be tipped and who isn’t.
For instance in Atlanta, the minimum cash wage for a tipped server is $2.13 per hour. If tips combined with wages do not reach the state minimum of $7.25, the employer must make up the difference.
Functionally no, there are a handful of restaurants in places like NYC and LA that have tried it, but part of the problem is that the servers want tips as well (you’re gonna have a hard time getting rid of something which the people being affected want).
I said this elsewhere, but any job can ask for tips but that doesn’t mean they’re making the $2 minimum wage. The cashier at McDonalds and the Barista at Starbucks are making minimum wage. In most cities those positions are making more than minimum wage because of market competition (Ziprecruiter says that the average McDonalds employee in Atlanta makes $12/hour, not that that’s a living wage either).
People who are making the $2 minimum wage generally make a lot more than that, and more than the McDonalds or Starbucks employee, because of tips. Tips are generally tax free, the positions are low skill, and if you don’t like this type of work or pay you’ll generally leave pretty quickly so the position is self selecting.
Here’s the math for two situations: 1.) You’re a bartender at a lunch pub with 12 spots at your bar, your shift is 10 am - 5 pm, you open at 11 and you’ll have on average 50% of the spots taken every 30 min. 7hr x 12 spots x 50% x 2 per hour = 72 customers. The average order will be between $15 - $30 with tip being $2.25 - $4.50 or $3.375 average. So 72 customers x $3.375 + $2 x 7 hours = $257/day x 5 days = $1,285 per week on average. Of that, you only pay taxes on $70 worth.
2.) You’re a waiter at an Outback Steakhouse, you have 5 tables, your shift is from 3 pm - 10 pm, you’re only really getting business from ~4 - 10 pm. During those hours your tables are 3/4 full and flipping every 45 minutes. 5 tables x 6 hours x 0.75 amount full x 3/2 flip rate = 33.75 customers. On average they are spending $50 - $100 each with tips of $7.50 - $15, average $11.25. So 33.75 customers x $11.25 + 7 hrs x $2/hr = $393.68/day x 5 days = $1968.40 per week on average. Again, you’re only paying taxes on $70 worth.
Now, here’s the catch, this is an average and assumes the location is very successful. You might instead have a Tuesday where it’s raining and you made $60 because no one came in, but then Friday the football game is on and you made $500. Maybe this restaurant isn’t pulling in customers so you’re not getting that kind of traffic. On paper the job can look very appealing, but in practice it typically falls short of those numbers.
Mostly correct. You do have to pay taxes on tips that the government knows about, which means any credit card tips and reported cash tips (which can be lied about of course because there’s no paper trail, but reporting $0 cash tips is highly suspicious).
Remember the whole “no taxes on tips” campaign that MAGA tried to use to get more working folks on their side? That’s because much/most tips are taxed.
And as someone who’s spent much of my career in a tipped position, all tips should be taxed. All income should be taxed. It’s what keeps society working.
Now, anyone in a tipped position should be taxed less, but we shouldn’t be targeting the source of the income. Take two people; a server making $60k and a teacher making $60k. Both should be taxed less than they currently are (and billionaires taxed much much much more), but saying the server should pay less than the teacher because much of their income is taxed is prioritizing the wrong thing in society. Eliminating tax on tips is wrong when the republicans proposed it, and it was wrong when democrats agreed. Lower the tax burden on lower brackets, and raise it on those in the much higher brackets. Don’t target the source of the income.
Oh I understand, but the no tax on tips thing did go through. Through 2028 you can deduct up to $25k in tips. You still have to pay payroll taxes, but you will get them back when you do your taxes.
Why are you only paying taxes on $70 worth?
It’s a bit of hyperbole, but it’s not too far off of the truth. In the past you only paid taxes on tips you claimed, so if you got all your tips in cash you perhaps didn’t claim them all (or maybe just enough to hit the minimum wage). If you got tips on credit or debit card then they were automatically counted. Last year they passed a rule that goes through 2028 in which you can deduct up to $25k of tips from your income. You still have to pay payroll taxes on those tips, but come tax time you can deduct up to $25k and get those taxes back. So if you made $60k including tips, maybe $10k of those tips were in cash, you can deduct $25k for tips and then the standard deduction is another $16k and you don’t claim the $10k in cash. $60k - $25k - $16k - $10k = $9k in taxable income.
And is $7.25 a livable wage in Atlanta?
How tf am I supposed to know if their minimum wage is implemented properly
Not even slightly.
But that doesn’t mean it should be the customer’s job to make up for the employer’s abuse.
It’s built into the price of the meal. It’s more systemic than making the customer pay the wait staff. The profit margins on food are razor-thin, despite “offloading” wait staff salary and no one in the restaurant getting healthcare. If you’re not going to tip, then don’t go out to eat. Going out and not tipping exclusively hurts the staff.
Going out and not tipping exclusively hurts the staff.
Staying in hurts them more when their place of business closes down due to lack of customers.
I begrudgingly tip, but usually 10-15%, like it used to be. I don’t buy into the current bullshit narrative of driving up the expected percentages, especially as prices rise as it is. Some might say I’m still an asshole for NoT pAyInG tHeM eNoUgH, but so be it.
So many tipped workers fight to keep being abused in this way, and I don’t reward that, even if I support these post-slavery practices through cultural guilt alone.
As soon as the “no tax on tips” passed my baseline tip dropped 5%.
What about the cooks? Hostess? Other back of house staff?
Aren’t back of house staff generally making minimum wage, not server wage? That’s what I had the one place I worked for a bit.
They generally get a portion of the tips. It varies from place to place, but when I was serving it was about 3% of total sales, regardless of tip percentage. If you did $1000 in sales, $30 of your tips went to BOH and support staff, whether you made $100 or $300.
Yea, the thing I don’t get about the “if I don’t tip the workers will unionize” crowd is that they can just not go to tipping establishments or just eat takeout. You don’t have to basically steal labor from the workers. If you think “them making less money is better for the market” then just don’t make them work for you and refuse to pay what is expected. Boycotting tipping establishments would help, but that doesn’t get people free/less expensive stuff so they don’t do that.
Even if I take them in the best faith possible, they’re just exploiting the workers themselves and blaming the workers for their exploitation. In that situation they basically take the place of the bosses saying “if you want a raise go work somewhere else”.
I also hate tipping culture, but it’s so rude to go to another country (during a rise in fascism no less!) and act like by not following their norms you’re having any effect on the culture other than making yourself look like bad.
The problem is the workers who get tips generally like it because they can potentially make a lot more than a comparable fixed wage. On a good night you can make several times over the base wage, and under-report cash tips on your taxes (or omit them entirely, but the IRS might catch that).
So a lot of workers don’t want tipping to go away any more than the restaurant owners do.
Then they also have to deal with people who see through the shenanigans and refuse to tip. Fuck em.
But base wage for those positions is also significantly lower than minimum wage because the tips are expected to compensate for it, so the ceiling is higher but the floor is also lower. So refusing to tip at all does kind of make you out to be the asshole.
Unfortunately most people are just trying to survive and don’t really have the time or the energy to worry about the bigger picture.
Personally, I just split the difference and refuse to tip anywhere it’s not already factored into the wage structure. It’s not gonna change the situation but at least it helps hold the line.
Unionise and change the situation, or lose. I’m not paying money I can’t spare because people refuse to help themselves. I repeat, fuck em.
That doesn’t make you some champion of the working man, it makes you a cheap asshole. You are taking advantage of their labor more than the restaurant owner.
Advocate for change, absolutely. Refuse to patronize restaurants that expect/require tipping. I’d even say it’s fair to stop buying into the tip-inflation (15% used to be standard, then 18, now 20+), that’s fair, stick to 15%.
Hell, since at most restaurants you pay after the meal, why even pay that? After all, you knew there’s a cost before you had the meal but “you can’t spare it.” I’m serious, you wan’t to make a point, leaving a note that says “pay your staff better” and no cash makes a stronger statement than simply not tipping.
Living in the UK, I easily avoid giving any such slave driver my money.
I’m simply explaining why the rest of the world isn’t like the US, workers collectively fought for rights, simple as that. Either get on with changing it, or keep complaining about being stiffed (while pocketing off the books income in a lot of cases). Shrug
This discussion is about Europeans coming to the US and giving money to the restaurants themselves (the slave drivers) but not tipping the staff (the slaves). Absolutely support a decision to protest such a system by not patronizing it; but patronizing it but not tipping is just cheap. You’re not some savior of workers rights, you’re a cheap asshole. That is a harsh truth you need to come to terms with.
So be upfront and tell them you won’t be tipping, and get the service you’re paying for.
Shouldn’t servers tell the customers how much service they should expect based on the amount they plan to give in that case then?
Non tippers get a reputation around town and then are treated with bad service, largely ignored by the staff. Big tippers get treated to complimentary meals, desserts, wine, and more.
There is also the angle of poor servers being treated with low/no tips, the long term goal of which being to get them to treat customers better or drive them out of the business.
That would also require being unfortunate enough to be in the US for a protracted length of time.
While the UK is indeed a shit hole and getting worse thanks to Trump wannabes and other associated scumbags only a hair’s breadth from being out and out Nazis, it isn’t quite as bad as the US. Yet.
Edit: I have spent time in the states, but it’s direction in the last decade has put paid to me ever returning, for business or pleasure. Fuck that.
Those workers are the equivalent of scabs, even if they don’t realize it and don’t have bad intentions.
Employer. Their employees will eventually quit, and it will get harder for them to hire new ones. Tipping does not help here, it lets the employers do what they’re doing now.
FIFA the largest slave owner of sports, its no wonder Middle east country have bought sports organizations.
Will never happen. Allnthisnwill do is fuck service workers over.
If you can’t tip, don’t go to the restaurant or bar. Those workers depend on their tips. And the restaurant or bar isn’t just gonna make up the difference for the server just because you decided not to tip.
Those Europeans are being dicks.
Wow keep it up
Fun fact: These states require tippable workers to be paid the full minimum wage:
- Alaska
- California
- Guam
- Minnesota
- Nevada
- Oregon
Source: Department of Labor - Minimum Wages for Tipped Employees
Be honest; No one that would travel from Europe to the World Cup cares one bit about social issues.
I don’t think the definitive no one is true. While a lot of them couldn’t care less. I’m sure there are some that do.
Of course not, the tip is just viewed as an additional surcharge and they don’t want to spend that money. The social issue is very likely, if at all, just an after-the-fact rationalisation.
We’re coming to the US to see the fall of rome, my dude.
The collapse of your nation is our spectacle.
Smile, you’re on TV! :)
Lol dumbass doesn’t understand his country is comming with. Where you live dope? I’ll give you an in depth economic breakdown of how you’re fucked even if your entire retirement account is rheinmetal
lol, you’re “comming” at me with rage and bluster and illiteracy. Get fucked moron.
How you invested bud?
I track a daily ETF of your mother, your sister and your father.
So you don’t even have money to invest. Good luck 🥲
Why’d you assume he’s from the US?
Celebrating other people’s misery is the reason humans could never get along in the first place. It’s tribalism, same thing they’ve used for thousands of years to divide people.
Don’t worry, European countries have their own fascism problem, not far behind the U.S.
Then we can all be miserable together.
And this will be the first time in history that fascists in power have access to a fully-immersive (and inescapable) digital panopticon complete with AI to process more data that humans would be capable of doing unassisted, and adding concerningly high rates of hallucinations on top of it, even aside from the biases and spins that are baked into their algorithms…
Oh and military technology has come a long way since the last time fascists gained enough influence to threaten the world order…
This isn’t going to be good if we can’t all pull ourselves out of this death spiral before it’s too late…
Jesus Christ you clap for your own demise.
Sounds of cheering when the America is glassing the sandbox
The boomerang is coming home and the schadenfreude is too enticing.
If you’re going to the US, you’re supporting whatever is going on over there. It makes you worse than the many people in the US that were born there for no fault of their own, now trying to work against it.
Schadenfreude is bad enough by itself, actually increasing the Schaden is even worse. So I’m not sure exactly what you’d be celebrating, except your own shittyness.
And I’m not even from the US, so “my” nation isn’t even the one you’re talking about.
Yeah but then they don’t get to circlejerk about how superior they are.
We don’t circlejerk about how “superior” we are, even if it feels that way.
We’re usually dunking on you for being a bunch of violent, dumb fuckheads.
The problem is that the 340 million people there are incredibly diverse. While a large part would circlejerk about how superior they are, another large part wouldn’t. It’s easy and fun to lump all Americans together, and even mandated by our brains inability to process such large numbers, but doing it always unfortunately alienates the ones that do not exhibit the traits you ridicule.
It’s so much better (and useful) to just ridicule the traits/behaviors themselves instead of the relatively unrelated nationality. There’s nationalists and smug superiority everywhere.
I wouldn’t go there because I don’t have an X or twitter for them to interrogate my opinions… and I’m far too jokey to not upset people and get myself in trouble with people in “authority”.
I’ve gotta wait out the American decline until some time after Balkanisation and they start removing some of the guns. Honestly, it seems about as sensible as going to do tourism in the congo.
Join in with us, pass the popcorn then.
It’s rough seeing how smug europeans are about american fascism when every time you look at european news you see their own fascist splinter groups gaining more political traction with none of them really doing anything about it. Maybe worry about yourselves before worrying about us, right?
You know that almost all far right parties in Europe get money from the MAGAts, right?
Funded by not Americans.
No being a fucking billionaire South African who can go wherever he wants isn’t an American. There’s multiple of those people, even!
And MAGAts got their money from far right Europeans. What’s your point?
Uhhuh sure buddy. Lets pretend its spooky secretive europeans funding the american fascism parties.
Yeah. It’s interesting they all working together (despite being nationalistic) sending each other funds, and they all have a very positive view towards Russia.
I’m surprised there people who believe it is all organic.
About a decade ago, Steve Bannon very overtly came to Europe with money from the Koch Foundation openly to “Fund Far-Right parties”.
In many places in Europe the rise of the Far-Right happened after that.
Similarly, in Britain it turned out that most of the social media manipulation in favor of Leave was done by Cambridge Analitica, a British company which was being paid to do it by wealthy Americans.
America actively funds the Far-Right in Europe, especially the anti-EU crowd since EU member nations were a lot easier to push around by America and American interests individually, than they are grouped into the EU (even if parts of the EU, such as the EU Commission, have pretty much sold themselves out to large American companies)
Yeah they love pointing at European fascism but being remarkably blind at drawing the connections themselves.
You are not wrong, but fucking all american shit comes here with a 10 year delay for some reason (obesity, economic crisis, far right/proto fascism, anti vax, neoliberalism, the list goes on and on and on) so maybe that’s why people like to have a go at your country when it looks like you’re beating up yourselves while making it a spectacle.
I hope you’ll finally figure it out, good luck!
So you should see it coming and stop it.
Your country started that. And because your double agent of a president is Putin’s pawn, guess what? Putin received leeway to muddy Europe’s water too, with an unstoppable hybrid war. Every news article, every forum, every community I used to visit is now filled with bots that, as soon as politics is mentioned, chimes in about the “rapist immigrants that are stealing your job” and how “Europe is a failed continent that’ll turn your kids trans/gay”.
It’s hilarious, isn’t it? US and Russia shit on ME and Africa, which causes a huge wave of political and war refugees/economic immigrants to run from the horrors that YOUR country is responsible for.
And instead of us trying to think how to handle the piece of shit to the East, and how to protect our borders from illegal immigration, we have an ex-ally to the West, who is eyeing sovereign European territory.
And you have the audacity to call us smug? No, we are just familiar with history and evil men in power.
This guy is right on the money btw. You may not like it, but it be like it do.
Truth is often uncomfortable
Europe invented fascism I don’t care :)
Now, the standard American reply. A snide remark.
Your ignorance is astounding.
And so you take it out on waiters?
I don’t.
Stop with this nonsense Trump is a continuation of a long tradition of American imperialism not a “Russian puppet”.
Yeah, you might be right. Team world police. Look how upvoted the American comment is, but as soon as you point out that they’ve been bombing brown people for the past 60 years, they get cunty
Unfortunately, the US regularly intervenes in foreign countries’ affairs, so it’s not possible and geopolitically pretty stupid to not worry about the US. You can worry about both, though.
You can worry about both, though.
The issue is they aren’t. They just complain about the US and ignore their own country moving down that path. When they have the best ability to prevent it from getting bad early.
Send in the Goths, and hurry!
Not a single one?
Can’t support corrupt organizations and regimes and also claim to be socially aware. Mutual exclusivity.
No ethical consumption under capitalism. Can believe workers should be paid by the business owner and not by patron tips and believe that going to a world cup match to watch your country play your favorite sport is no worse than shopping at a big box store or paying your landlord.
It’s a big world mate and I can’t always be aware of every shitty thing going on at all times. Not only for logistical reasons, but also for mental health reasons.
I didn’t state that you must know everything, but you can’t claim to be aware of social issues if you’re willfully ignorant.
Also, all the bars and restaurants started tacking a 20% “tip” straight into the bill instead of making it voluntary.
I wouldn’t blame them after these reports. Need to hold rude Europeans accountable.
Or you know. Fuck tipping culture instead of paying your employees. The bar is charging $8 for 80 cents of bottom shelf booze in a mixed drink and right now they’re swamped in business with people racking up hundreds in drinks and bar food. You don’t think they could afford to bonus out their staff?
Fuck you.
I’m not saying they couldn’t, I’m saying they won’t. You’re happy to patronize those locations and give the owners $8/drink but not pay the staff.
Fuck you, friend.
You dont have to come here shit bag. Nice job proving magats right about how awful forgeners are.
oh look. Someone who thinks they earned an extra $20 for walking over a couple plates, when other people did all the work preparing it.
Literally the only people against getting rid of tipping and making the owners pay a real wage are the wait staff. They don’t want to pay taxes on everything they make, and they know that they’d make less money if they were just paid by the hour.
They even got greedy as hell trying to push the normal up to 20% or more. The standard tip used to be between 10% and 15% for decades. The price of food and eating out has gone up with inflation, so why would that percentage need to change?
Tell me you never worked in a restaurant without saying you never worked in a restaurant
oh shit. Are you also saying you folded napkins and had to speak to people or use a reguster? Wow. That almost sounds like the things an hourly paid employee would do!
America has entered the smug European fucking over the locals phase of being a third world country
What sucks about stories like this is not only are the servers not getting paid, they’re actually losing money because of the alcohol sales.
Why? Because in most restaurants that sell alcohol the server has to tip out the bartender a percentage of their drink sales. That $0 tip actually just took $5 away from the server.
Yes but you’re forgetting that the rich Douchebags going to the world cup are deserving of being allowed to do that because checks notes “the employees they’re hurting work in the USA and therefore aren’t people because their government sucks and ours is so much better just don’t look behind the curtain or in the closet or under the rugs”
Ah, you’re right. Disregard what I said. The servers should be grateful they have the privilege of losing money due to FIFA’s patrons.
And without it, dishwashers, bussers, host staff who barely afford minimum living expenses wouldn’t be able to do that.
I was talking about a sub-minimum wage earner tipping out another sub-minimum wage earner, but you’re absolutely right about the other staff. In fact it’s even worse with a sub-minimum wage earner paying out of pocket to the wage earner.
The whole system is rotten.
Everyone: just pay your employees a fair salary
Management: what if instead…
Do waiters in Europe get paid a living wage and live comfortably? Serious question
But Europeans do tip. It’s considered good manners to round up the bill (5-10%).
We love anti worker Europeans.
Tbh, this is a distraction. News channels pointing to those (few probably) pesky foreigners refusing to tip, and everyone falls for the rage bait.
