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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
You gotta chuckle at cheapskates who are calling for an end to tipping. With our current model, their food and drink are being subsidized by generous tippers. Get rid of tipping, add 15% to the price of everything, and it's the tight-fisted who will lose out.
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You've clearly never left the continent. NA is pretty much the only place that tips. It seems to work just fine everywhere else on Earth. But yeah, call me cheap. That must be the reason I don't like the concept. It could not have anything to do with all of the obvious reasons such as simplicity of transactions, staff getting paid a normal wage, and taxes being paid.
Why does questioning a unique thing like this equate to being cheap? It's not like I tip the person at the shoe store because he or she keeps running to the back to get me another pair that I want to try on. Why aren't they being tipped? Probably because they are working for whatever wage they're working for, and that's that. Yet there's this one industry where they're paid below minimum wage, and then the customer makes up the difference with arbitrary decision making.
I don't see why either party likes it, to be honest. But hey, why discuss when you've already decided that since I think the whole concept is flawed, it just means I'm cheap. Good talk.