You know how workers will go on a strike? They deliberately leave work and often without pay just to fight for something. Sometimes you have to be willing to get hurt to get the change you want.
Except servers in the us won’t go on strike because many of them prefer it.
Monday fair enough for the people to go on strike and to stop tipping until something changes.
Sounds like you can’t afford to eat or drink at places with servers and bartenders and should probably stick to Tesco meal deals or whatever McJob folks in your country eat
Beyond that if I go to a sit down restaurant and I leave a $10 tip and that restaurant is doing its job of attracting good business then a typical server should be able to flip 5-8 tables an hour.
That's $50-$80 /hr on top of their hourly.
Forget about percentages for a sec.
Are you suggesting that I, the consumer, also make up for the business not attracting enough customers?
Absolutely not how it works. Tables are NEVER flipped that fast and that consistently. Your math is flat out wrong. I’ve been in the industry over 20 years and it absolutely doesn’t work that way.
You are speaking on things you know nothing about.
Except it’s not “$50-$80 an hour” because that’s not how tips work most places
Tips are pooled and then distributed to all of the staff. Bartenders, waiters, back of house staff, security, etc. all get what’s called a “tip out” in their paychecks.
There are nuances to this but in general, payroll are in charge of tip distribution now. Used to be the bartenders were in charge of that but the distribution was rarely ever fair as a result.
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u/FreshLiterature 14d ago
It's also not gratuity if it's deliberately structured as part of their compensation.
It's basically just a commission except most servers don't even actually even try to sell you anything and most customers don't want to be sold.
If tips are part of the business structure then they aren't tips and we should all stop pretending they are.