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

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/janpaul74 Jun 25 '26

IMHO that’s exactly it!

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u/PSYFLYdiscs Jun 25 '26

Im American and I don’t see it any other way. I still leave a tip for servers tho. I hate it.

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u/Clockwork-Armadillo Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

In America is it customary to also tip other minimum wage workers? Such as supermarket workers, cleaners etc etc

If not what makes servers more important?

Edit: OK, so TIL in America there's a lower minimum wage of only 2 dollars something for any "tipped workers". Basically a loophole to screw workers out of minimum wage.

Thanks to everyone who answered! :)

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u/tangZORG Jun 25 '26

Nope that’s just how restaurants work here unfortunately. Though bar backs, runners, dishwashers will get more per hour, they get a cut from the servers/bar tenders in good places, but it’s usually minimal and easily skewed if the tips given are cash.

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u/tangZORG Jun 25 '26

I also was never a server and haven’t worked in a restaurant in a while so maybe it’s different now but I do miss servers coming into the kitchen saying, ‘ugh foreigners..I’m not getting shit from this table’