Tipping culture in the U.S. is fucked. Who does it benefit most? The employers who are able to underpay their workers. (Even minimum wage these days is horrifically low.)
The companies are able to externalize the wages they should be paying to their customers, who really pay huge portions of the employees’ “wage”. (E.g. I’m a gig worker doing deliveries, and more than HALF my pay comes from tips.)
If you don’t tip or tip very low, you’re using the employer’s negligence as an excuse not to pay the service workers a living wage. For this reason, when considering engaging with the service industry, you should assume you will pay a healthy tip, unless the service worker truly and massively drops the ball. If you can’t afford a healthy (20%) tip, then you can’t actually afford the service.
Tipping culture in the U.S. is fucked.
If you don’t tip or tip very low, you’re using the employer’s negligence as an excuse not to pay the service workers a living wage.
If you can’t afford a healthy (20%) tip, then you can’t actually afford the service.
What are you getting at, really? The tipping culture is fucked, and yet it falls on us, not the employers, to unfuck this shit?
Don’t tell me you’re one of those people who acknoledge climate change is due to the big corporations, but it is the consumers’ responsibility to save the earth.
I’m not from US, and when I’m from, we’d pay only as much as we’re legally obligated to, unless the service is really good.
Tipping is still here because employees like it. Most servers make more on tips than they would without. Full stop.
