Every reputable place I ever served at had front of house tip out the service staff.
Can we leave these shit memes by people who’ve never worked in the food industry (but get butthurt social conventions suggest you tip) and the resulting awful cavalcade of tired, predictable responses back on reddit?
Real “the system can’t be bad, I’ve had nothing but good interaction with cops” energy.
Tipping as an institution is an outright scam with a rich history of systematic racism.
Racist? I’m not trying to make a bad faith argument, but… what?
Dude. No one’s forcing you to eat out. Don’t if you don’t want to pay into that system (or just stiff if tipping as an institution is satanic to you)
Lol someone pointed out that lemmy.world are just reddit users infesting the federation and I can’t unsee it when I read comments like this.
That’s your experience.
I have worked in very reputable places and none of that tip would reach the cooks. If we were lucky they would pay us a beer at the club later. I think it’s regional though. I know in Quebec waiters won’t share because the government assume they get 15% tip from everything bill and taxes them accordingly.
Tips are imputed and taxed from sales in the US too.
That sucks. I did work at one place where the percentages weren’t set and it made for some friction because not every server tipped out BOH/ support at the same rate. The best places I worked set minimum percentages (ie, 5% to kitchen, 3% to dishwashers, etc which ended up being 15% of your sales) and got could go above if you wanted such as if the kitchen saved your ass. It made for better morale. I worked at a couple places where it was a free for all and BOH/FOH were always fighting and turnover was high
Doesn’t sound very reputable. Sounds like a Buffalo Wild Wings.
I’ve been in the restaurant industry for over 15 years and the least I ever had to tip out to the kitchen was 2.5%. Never, did they not get tipped out.
Also, I’m not complaining, I love the back of house, but don’t spread bullshit cause you had a bad go
Haven’t been in that industry in years but I made more doing that than I do in my current job a decade later.
Service chews your body up so I left
You made good money because of guilt tripping people into tipping 20% instead of demanding your employer pays you, and crying on social media about how waiters make almost nothing.
The entire reason people tip is out of sympathy, and restaurant workers really weaponized that. Instead of having trouble with your employer not paying you, you joined forces with them.
For the record I tip reasonably, but I find it crazy that restaurant workers do this.
