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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
You - and a few others - are misunderstanding Cliff. He is saying that under the current system bad tippers are being subsidized by good tippers. The equilibrium falls in the middle for what a server makes. People who are miserly under this system will find themselves paying more than they currently do if we moved to another model.
Being a cheapskate just comes naturally for some people.
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I think we all understand what cliff is saying. Personally I just feel the same way about customers who only want to pay a price that a business and it’s employees can’t survive on as I do about employers who don’t want to pay a living wage.
The model of allowing the cost for those customers who don’t tip to remain low by being “subsidized” by big tippers is flawed. If those big tippers suddenly stop tipping so much and it affects the business’ ability to attract and maintain labour the business would need to increase it’s prices anyways and the people relying on the subsidized pricing would end up in the exact same spot.