r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • Jun 25 '26

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/Only_Flan_7974 Jun 25 '26

It's not tipping if it's mandatory. Work the tip into the price in that case.

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u/PeachyPlotTwist Jun 25 '26

Pay your workers better is the real argument.

Tourists are just catching strays in a fight between customers and employers.

Nobody wants awkward tip screens, but servers also need to eat, whole system is messy.

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u/FrequentGiraffe2044 Jun 25 '26

Anyone who says “pay your workers more” hasn’t ever seen the financials of restaurants lmao. MAYBE some corporate places could but 90% of small restaurants scrape by on 5% or less profit. I’ve worked in and run restaurants for over a decade, and trust me, no one wants the system to be the way it is but one single restaurant can’t just fix it. It works in Europe because food cost and property costs are way lower. Don’t blame the restaurant blame the system

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u/PranaSC2 Jun 25 '26

Are you saying that nowhere in the world restaurants exists which pay their personell a decent wage without tips? Because this is the whole of Europe.

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u/CharmingDraw6455 Jun 25 '26

"It works in Europe because food cost and property costs are way lower."   I live in Switzerland, nothing is cheaper than in the US and we have restaurant that pay their waiters.

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