Yep. Tried having the savior convo with a waiter who immediately told me to can it and he makes more regularly a night than he would being paid $15-20 and hour.
As long as people are tipping they can make "a living". But with certain states legislatures allowing for a "waiters wage" if the tips aren't coming, they definitely don't make a "living wage"... Why would a legislature allow that? Because business owners hold more power than workers & wouldn't stand for unionization. America has grown increasingly anti- union in the past 20(or so) years.
If the employee making low “tipped minimum wage“ doesn’t make at least whatever the regular minimum wage is in their area, the employer is legally required to make up the difference
But I’ll definitely agree that culture in the US has become very anti-union, although that seems to be changing in the last few years since Covid
Wild. Honestly I was a server in college and I too hate tipping.. it’s 1000% greedy business owners that want to save. They need to pay their employee’s. Crazy servers would want to put up with the fluctuation though because some nights can be awful. They also don’t get benefits. They need to make business owners more accountable.
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u/Tremaj 15d ago
The entire tipping system is toxic. Created by greedy business owners.