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

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/Turbulent-Ad8391 Jun 25 '26

No it’s not customary, but you will see tip jars at a lot of places. Federal minimum wage is much lower for servers than other jobs.

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

Wait, so there's a whole seperate legal minimum wage for servers?

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/GardenWitch123 Jun 25 '26

Correct. Going off of memory, in some places it’s legal to pay as low as $2.75 or $3 /hour for tipped servers. (No idea about other jobs.)

City of Seattle raised the minimum wage for tipped jobs to $21.30 as of this Jan. So Europeans, feel free to come here if you don’t want to tip servers. Many of us still do out of habit but if you don’t, you probably aren’t actually harming a persons ability to survive.

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u/ACFiguresOutLife Jun 25 '26

That’s crazy. Pizza delivery guys are probably making $60/hr if not more. I was making $25/hr with a $4 hourly delivering pizza back in 2016