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Originally Posted by Sliver
I get not liking tipping, but it's the culture we live in. You normally tip 0-10%? That's embarrassingly low if you're at a restaurant relying on the service of a waiter or waitress. They need to make more than that on average to earn enough to afford a basic life. I guess I'm picking up your slack. Thanks.
I don't know how we get out of this tipping culture we've boxed ourselves into, but I do know what doesn't work, which is withholding money from 20-year-old young men and women just trying to get by.
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That 20-year-old girl working a busy night at some restaurant as a bartender or waitress, do you know how much she makes in tips? I know girls who regularly made hundreds in tips in a night.
Why is 10% embarrassing low? Why does that waitress deserve to make 3-4x more than someone else with no education needed for the job at home depot or sobeys? Aren't the people making bank (hello every pretty girl I knew in university who made a #### load of money as a waitress and never declared tips to the CRA) doing ok? Should I feel sorry that they should have made extra? Why do they make a lot more money than the person in the kitchen actually preparing the food?
The way you're doing mental gymnastics to put the onus on people by claiming they're "withholding money" from waters or waitresses because some don't pay them an automatic minimum of 15% extra to do a job they are already getting paid to do is crazy. If you're so concerned for people affording a "basic life" next time you're out make sure you hand a few bucks to your hostess, the bus boy and head on back to the kitchen and pay the cooks.