>>3502961I do but basically the bare minimum. Sometimes I round up a bit because I'm a slow eater and I know I'm taking up space. I would just really rather them be paid better and it reflect in the food prices or something.
>>3503566The restaurants should not be able to do this to begin with. Imagine any other job being paid two dollars an hour, overly stressing you to try to get tips so that you can maybe get over minimum wage with the constant threat of being fired.
You know what happens if they don't make minimum wage on their own? Fired for other people that will get better tips, so that the company doesn't need to pay them.
Even if you do a good job, if you consistently get low tips, maybe you're not the prettiest, not the right amount of chatty with the customer because you're trying too hard under stress, constantly screwed with getting the large 10+ tables that never tip (this is a truth, parties never tip and take your entire shift and ruin your experience with other tables, resulting in tipless days), or just getting nontippers in general. It's half Russian roulette and half hoping the drunk guys/girls find you hot enough to give money to.
At that point you'd have a better job flipping burgers at a steady minimum wage.
There's absolutely no excuse for the tipping culture in America. Minimum wage plus optional tips is fine.
