It never fails to shock me how a tip is demanded in the US. People simply refuse to listen to reason when we (yes, there are others!) tell them that leaving a tip isn’t necessary. Well, I’m hoping for too much here, but if you’re a waiter, here are 5 reasons why I will try my best not to give any money to you and why the reasons for tipping are crappy.
1. You act as if you’re my best friend
Just leave me alone ok? I don’t want to bloody chit chat with you. I want food. FOOD! Get it? It’s a restaurant. I go there to eat. I go because I want either Italian food, Chinese Food or something else which I can’t get in a McDonald’s. So I come to a restaurant to fulfill my cravings for it. I will pay for what I value – food. Not you.
Christ, you offend me – kneeling down next to my table, pretending to like me and chatting as if you’re my best friend when it’s obvious that all you’re after is the tip! I’m not a bloody money bag you know. I will pay the bill which includes the cost of the food, the environment and the salaries of the people involved – nothing more.
The only way to get money out of me that I don’t have to legally pay is by prying it out of my cold dead hands…
Bottom line: I don’t want to know your name, or interact with you for any longer than I have to in order to place my order. As far as I’m concerned, you’re the equivalent of a conveyor belt that brings me my food and a computer into which I input my order. Of course, I won’t be rude. But don’t expect me to interact with you any more than I would with some stranger.
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2. You don’t get paid enough
And this is my problem how exactly? It’s astonishing that customers are expected to make up for your employer’s cheapness in not paying you a decent wage. Please include the full cost in everyone’s bill thank you very much. I’ll pay it because I have to and the charge is there for me to see.
What’s really funny here is that no one seems to criticize the employers! All criticism is reserved for non tipping customers instead of the owners of the restaurant for not paying a decent wage. Wtf! Could it possibly be because you guys know you can make much more by tips and under report your income to the IRS?
3. You’ll spit in my food if I don’t tip you?
And I’ll shoot your kid if you don’t give me a million dollars. Seriously, am I even hearing this right? You’re actually using the threat of blackmail to make me pay you? Well as long as you’re openly claiming to be a criminal it’s all right I guess.
Fortunately that’s why I prefer buffets. Listen apart from it being illegal, this shows your poor integrity. But if you spit in someone’s food because they didn’t give you money you didn’t earn, then you’re a loser and deserve to be a waiter for the rest of your life.
4. Bringing me my food isn’t worthy of being paid extra
Did you cook it? Did you invent it? No. You picked it up and brought it to me. While it might not be easy, there are plenty of jobs which are much worse – shop floor workers for example. And I’ve been a shop floor manager, so I know. Face it – compared to other jobs, being a waiter is unskilled. You get paid what the market will think your services are worth. You don’t deserve more for your work over and above what your employer should pay you.
5. Money doesn’t grow on trees
I expect you to be grateful and pray for me at night if I tip you 10%. Be happy I gave you anything at all. I worked for the money in my wallet and by giving you some I didn’t have to, I’m doing you a favor. Learn to remember that when people give you something they don’t need to, it’s a favor. You don’t complain that they didn’t give you more!
By the way, the same thing above applies to all professions that demand tips including those on cruise liners.
So now that you understand why I won’t give you money you don’t deserve, stop with the “oh how could you?” attitude. I can. And I will.
Update: Here’s a rebuttal of the many silly justifications for tipping that people have given in the comments section.
Btw to the person who argues that theyre gonna pay 5 dollar tip regardlesd of the cost or level of dining experience. Another dumb argument. At cheap restaurants the waiter waits more tables over a shorter period of time. Hence you get less quality of service. At expensive restaurants the waiter owaits fewer tables over a longer period of time. Hence you get better service. The waiter at a fancy restaurant will operate at a loss if you give them denny’s level tips. As to your other point it may not be physically harder to wait at an expensive restaurant but it certainly takes a lot more skill and intellectual ability in terms of having a more nuanced approach to dealing with clientele and a complex knowledge of wines champagnes complex dishes etc. It definitely requires a higher skill level.
I agree with one of the posters above. It’s hilarious when people try to morally justify their bad behavior- in this case cheapness.
In reply to janet
Look honestly, I got to a restaurant to eat and not to perform charity work or worry about other people. Waiters would have more success begging if they set up a website asking for donations to support them.
I don’t like bothering about other people’s problems. I have enough of my own thank you very much.
In reply to bhagwad
Thank you bhagwad. You unlike most of the posters here actually state intelligent arguments rather than relying upon sympathy and guilt to prove your point. Bad behavior runs RAMPANT, but its called business. Why don’t you tell some big time executives “better not use bad behavior” they’ll just laugh.
Again I clearly see janet’s point regarding how the system work, but it continues to prove my point that the entire wait system is based on an arbitary out dated system. There are a lot of out-dated systems that we got rid of, yet we keep this one.
I understand that it takes more skill at a nicer restaraunt, but again, if a labor cost is requried by the service members, put it on the bill. If I took a case where a service worker demanded a tip WITHOUT A RESTARAUNT HAVING A TIPPING POLICY, i would certainly win that case in a court of law.
$2/hr? again I’m a consumer, poor wages are not my problem. I am simply at the establishment to consume, thats it.
It seems that you are using a faux-sanctimonious form of morality to force consumers to pay for a service that is not contractually required to be paid. Again, the restaraunt should have mandatory tipping system.
Even guys that go to your house and build things require a LABOR fee, so why cannot that be added to EVERY restaraunt if the wages are so poor and the living conditions are so dire?
and the end all be all question, if the restaraunt industry is so corrupt, why can’t every waiter just quit?? trust me, there are other jobs.
For me this is a real contentious issue. I have been to the US several times and with one exception have always tipped. However I feel that having to tip a certain percentage of a bill to make up somebodies wages is not right.
I always tip in the UK (Although it is not expected), I just dont like the fact that you are expected to tip a certain percentage of the bill.
On my last visit to the US I have really noticed how much of my holiday spends is going on tips (Around $400-$500).
We have a minimum wage in the Uk (Around £6 an hour which equates to $9), which people seem to manage to live on without relying on tips. What is the minimum US wage?
Like I said earlier I have no problem tipping. The problem is you are paying the restaurant for there food, and then paying there staffs wages on top of it.
In reply to UK Sates visitor
Agreed, but can’t the restaraunt add a service fee to the bill just to avoid ambiguity? I’ve spoken with wait staff and they actually do not want this, even though they’d be receiving a constant service fee. I just don’t get it.
Tipping is not a social contract, because the government does not enforce tipping. A social contract is something that would hold up in court, based on it’s exact definition. It has to be something you’ve voluntarily entered in to. However, there is this curious statement….
“Modern Anglo-American law, like European civil law, is based on a will theory of contract, according to which all terms of a contract are binding on the parties because they chose those terms for themselves. This was less true when Hobbes wrote Leviathan; then, more importance was attached to consideration, meaning a mutual exchange of benefits necessary to the formation of a valid contract, and most contracts had implicit terms that arose from the nature of the contractual relationship rather than from the choices made by the parties. Accordingly, it has been argued that social contract theory is more consistent with the contract law of the time of Hobbes and Locke than with the contract law of our time, and that features in the social contract which seem anomalous to us, such as the belief that we are bound by a contract formulated by our distant ancestors, would not have seemed as strange to Hobbes’ contemporaries as they do to us.”
Although in my opinion, don’t be calling yourself an American, until you do perform tipping and support your fellow American. I hate business, why? Well, because Businesses, even American based ones, don’t give a shit about military members. They are as unpatriotic as anyone could get, based on my experience as a military member. Being in the military means nothing now-a-days. No one cares, you don’t get benefits outside of the military, because you were a member. Either people don’t care or they hate you.
It used to be great and worthwhile to have it in your resume. These days, I hide the fact that I ever served. If it does no good, why tell anyone. Took two years of hard work to find a new full-time job, I worked very hard. Finally a position opened up at my best friend’s place of employment. I’m confident I wouldn’t have gotten it if it weren’t for him.
I delivered pizza from the time I lost my full-time job, till even today, I still have to catch up on bills and quick. I’m thousands into debt because people don’t want to tip me the $3 average, but would rather tell me to keep the change. ($0.23) People are cheapskates. People don’t care about other people. Why should I care about other people, if they don’t care about me? Why should I be proud of being an American Warrior if people could not care one bit about it?
America is changing for the worse. All of you immigrants that refuse to conform to our country’s established customs are to blame for this. And this has been happening for a long time. Every generation. In a few years, America won’t even be America, anymore.
You don’t have freedom, you don’t have freedom of speech. You only have freedom of speech if it’s not insulting to any kind of person in the whole entire world. Which defeats the purpose of freedom of speech. You don’t have true freedom, but the freedoms you do have, foreigner, who has become an American, are provided to you by people like me. Anything that you have as an American is due to my comrades and I.
Enjoy living your life by business standards and not personal, human standards. Enjoy being a subordinate, rather than a valuable human being. Enjoy being a cattle, taking it’s turn feeding, with contractual agreements and business standards corralling you in. You complain about tipping expectations, yet, YOU, yourself, do nothing about it.
In my opinion, everything should stay as it is now. I make far more money this way. Let’s allow people like you to not tip. I could care less. In fact, if you don’t tip, I think…I think I’ll make even more money.
“bhagwad”, enjoy your life. Try not to prematurely cut your contract of life short, no matter how miserable it seems to anyone.
In reply to Jake
so apparently dudes like bhagwad are to be threatened due to not tipping? sounds a little harsh.
Since when did this become a “foreigner” and “american” issue? Lot of foreigners tip well and a lot of WASP Americans don’t tip well. Why are we making this out to be a completely separate issue.
I am very proud that you served our country and you are correct to a point that businesses are growing corrupt and to a point unpatriotic. But what does this have to do with tipping?
I believe in the America that used to rely on free markets only where markets would dictate wages and livign standards. The very big businesses that you (and i) demonize are the very ones that forcing these ridiculous wages on you. Guess who benefits from minimum wage? not the worker, but Wal-Mart, Target, etc. Wal-Mart can afford to have a few staff members on the floor for $8/hr, but you think the local hardware store can even compete with that? Many countries like Germany and Norway (the US was once like this as well) don’t let the government intrude on people’s lives and regulate them to death.
This is where tipping then comes in. Many wait staff members feel that they are ENTITLED to tips as people are ENTITLED to food stamps, welfare, etc. Why are you ENTITLED to anything? In a free market, you receive what you receive, that is it. Unfortuantely in the free market it is not guranteed that all will make good or even fair wages, however it is much easier in a free market, with the proper elbow grease to excel.
Allowing the free market to continue is more human than anything we currently have. Think about it. With government regulations in place, the very same guys that wanted these regulations to come forth in the first place were the big corps because they are the ones that know every single loophole.
I hate to sound cliche btw, but if you aren’t a Native American, you are an immigrant to the US. The oldest non-native american family to come to America would have come in 1600, which is not too far off.
No I’m not an immigrant.
In reply to Common Sense
Native Americans are also “immigrants”. If you did some real research, you would see that no human originated from this land. Besides, there’s plenty of evidence suggesting that “Native Americans” are Anglo-Saxon/Asian in descent. I call them American Indians, since I don’t believe that they “evolved” into intelligent beings here.
Back to the topic on hand. My main gripe with you guys, is the fact that you’re trying to justify your opinions on the service industry, specifically Waiters and Waitresses, using examples of other industries that have nothing to do with the service industry. The hardware store for instance, that couldn’t be further from the service industry at all, yet you seek to compare the two like they were exactly the same at some point, food and all.
Being a taxi driver is closer, but no cigar. How bout a pizza delivery driver? That’s the closest you’ll find to a waiter or waitress. Well, except for the fact that pizza delivery drivers do a whole lot more for the customer than a waiter does. I cook, top, take orders, deliver and clean up after customers. My job is a driver, similar to a waiter, yet I do all the jobs, in a very large chain of international pizza restaurants.
And yes, my base pay is below minimum wage. But I do make a crap ton of money when people realize what my job consists of, without me hassling them. Those who are oblivious, can remain oblivious. I could NOT care less. I make good money.
In reply to Jake
I was actually saying an Immigrant to the USA, not to North America, when i referred to Immigrants two posts ago. Just FYI.
In reply to Jake
Now that we are splitting hairs, Jake. I also worked as a pizza delivery person. What I failed to mention, was that both pizza delivery driver and cab driver were paid $0.00 per hr. It was entirely on commission. You don’t work hard and treat people with respect, you made nothing. Also, I had to pay for a tank of gas out of my earning for the night. (pizza delivery) I also worked making pizza’s in which I was paid the min wage at the time. For future reference, I also worked at a deli. We received NO tips, and expected non. It’s ridiculous to expect a customer to tip you at the till for carrying their sandwich from the display case to the till.
My point is service is service, where EVER you work. You don’t like your job and you don’t like serving people without being a phony and a money whore, get a education and a new job that doesn’t require begging. Once again, it’s your boss ripping you off..not the savvy customer.
Perhaps the service industry should do what airlines do. Sell the ticket for $50 and add $100.00 in extras by the time you get on your flight.
In reply to Zapious
Zapious is the only one on this board that I give credit too. He is the only one that knows what he is talkign about.
it is ridiculosu to expect a custoemr to tip. Again, busienss is business, and whiny Americans are the reason why our unemployment is so high etc. ENTITLEMENT. Every american feels this high sense of entitlement. In capitalism, there are rich people, a lot of middle class people, and some poor people. Thats a fact of life, so people should get over it or move to Greece or Italy.
Like zapious said, you don’t like your job and don’t like serving people without beign a phoney and a money whore, get an education.
If a job is taht bad, QUIT. wal mart pays minimum wage, so does target, one can always work there temporarily (btw i am HEAVILY againgst minimum wage, but thats aside from the point).
BTW Jake–are you now inferring that American Indians are stupid? They maybe immigrants to North/South America, but they’ve been here millenia before the Mayflower, so keep that in mind.
Frankly, this article does not surprise or offend me. I have been working as a server for almost 10 years and enjoy my position immensely. I am college educated and suppose I could go and getting a teaching job, but I prefer to stay in the service industry. I am currently making over $40 an hour and am free to make my own schedule and hours. I never take my work home with me and I certainly do not work more than 30 hours a week. In my free time I do free lance design work and also have ample time to spend with friends and family. I have managed my money well and have started a nest egg for my future endeavors.
In this industry I have learned that you will have your good days and bad. Most people I encounter are respectable savvy diners. The ones that are like the gentleman that wrote this article are bitter and not worth getting upset over. I will still treat you with respect and kindness, but believe me you will laughed about while I am in the back of the house. Will I get mad when you decide not to leave me a tip? Not really, I will just remember the 30%-40% tip I received from the table before you. Also just so you know in all of my years of working in the industry I have never once have I seen anyone spit in a food or drink. If you leave a bad tip we will just remember you for next time and that will be reflected in future encounters with you and your guests.
Just for the record it does take skill to be a good server. I have encountered many people in my life that could not do what I do. Being a server does not just mean taking an order and clearing the dirty plates. Serving requires skill in communicating, graciousness, and kindness. Not all people possess these traits. Certainly not the author of this article. My favorite people to wait on are the ones that are going out to have a dining experience. I love to make recommendations and love to have the opportunity to pair foods with wines/beers/spirits. Learning how to do this did not come naturally. It takes years of experience and education. I have taken several classes to learn about wines, beers, and spirits. The restaurant I currently work at uses locally produced ingredients. One day I was able to work on one of the farms to learn about the ingredients and how they are produced. When I am able to come back and talk to my guests about the food we are serving they are blown away by the knowledge we are able to provide.
I would just like to say that as a server I forgive you for your ignorance and arrogance. Never in my life would I blame a person for the way an industry is set up. I do feel sorry for the servers that work in chain restaurants and have to experience people like the author and the repliers that agree with him. I am fortunate enough to work in a restaurant where I rarely encounter guests of this nature. However, as I stated before I would never ask for an increase in an hourly wage over tips because frankly even with one bad tip I am still making more hourly with tips than I would be with a set hourly wage. Oh and I know this is also true for the chain type restaurants. So Sandip, Punjab, and Mr. Patel keep your measly $3 and go buy a stick of deodorant. ; )
Again, you are using some great points in terms of humanism and being kind, and I totally agree, but when it comes down to payment, why does the consumer have to be punished for an arbitary set up the way we have. Can’t the consuemr pay what he wants if there is nothing written on the receipt?
I understand that being in a higher end restaraunt requires more skill, b ut a 15-20% tip seems so arbitrary, and in business, frivolity is your enemy. I’m talking real business, not the bloated business models (chain restaraunts, wal-mart, etc.). I think that if the service industry completely bans tipping, we might see an equilibration in the system. Prices of the food might get higher (although prices are already marked up so that is a rarity), and with that, you might even weed out some undesired customers that way.
This is just personal, but I am an American, and I hate all of the faux friendliness I receive at any restaraunt. I just want my food. If I have a question, I’ll ask for it and I don’t need a longwinded answer. It just seems so fake and unnatural and so emotional when wait staff members feel so entitled to tips. Business is business, whether its at a Beverly Hills 5 star or a Compton McDonalds. I wish that all restaraunts would just add perhaps a labor charge or something to a receipt so we can remove the ambiguity and, yes, frivolity of the current tipping system. I mean when I have a plumber come to the house, I don’t tip him for his work and the plumbers taht do come on to the house are EXCELLENT at what they do. They ask for a labor fee, which they provide on the receipt, and I give it, thats it.
BTW, what’s with the stereotypes man? You saying all Indians stink or something? That’s like someone saying all White boys beat their girlfriends (stereotype outside the US), so lets leave that kinda stuff out of this thread man.
The bottom line is : Eating out is expensive! Why? Because restaurants pay more for food than the rest of us? NO. So why would we pay 10 times more for a meal, when we eat out? Because we don’t want to cook it, we don’t want to clean up after. That’s WHY it cost more. It’s suppose to be FULL service. If people that wait on you want to be PAID by you, then the restaurants should lower their prices! The funniest thing about this whole discussion, is that the employers in this situation are making out like bandits. Legally being allowed to use people like slave labor, and blaming it (poor wages) on the consumer. “Hey, if you want a job, I’ll give you $2/hr and you can coerce as much as you get out of the customers”. I know , first hand, that employees are the most expensive part of running a business. (next to rent perhaps) Well run businesses survive fine without their employees hounding their customers for extra money. I can’t imagine what it would be like to go into a hardware store, and have the floor person say to you ” Well , I could help you find exactly what you are looking for IF you give me 15% of the total you spend here”.
“otherwise, I can just point you to the isle, and you’re on your own”.
In reply to Zapious
very well said. I will take your argument to heart Zapious since you mentioned you drove a cab. Everyone else here is simply using emotions.
I really like you’re argument and couldn’t agree more.
The hardware store analogy is precisely how I feel.
This article makes you look really dumb. Do you think waitresses want tips because of greed? Did you know waitresses make $2.35 an hour at most jobs and that’s basically mostly for taxes? I am a waitress and my pay check literally comes out to less then $20 A WEEK. I work 30+ hours weekly. You think we just bring out your food? No. That table you sat at did not clear, clean and reset it’s self. Also we’re doing a lot of work in the back you can’t see. We’re cleaning, putting bread in the oven, prepping things for your meal, turning soups, getting burned. I have had many jobs none as hard as waitressing. Don’t act like we’re greedy for wanting a tip, it’s how we pay our bills. Also if you open or close the restaurant you are basically working for $1 an hour during those times. When you don’t tip or tip low you’re taking from our income. You may think “cleaning the restaurant has nothing to do with me blah blah” well if all those other tasks were not being taken care of the restaurant wouldn’t stay open, so yes it is in fact for you.
In reply to Samatha
Don’t you think the work you do with cleaning the table etc is the reason a restaurant costs more than cooking at home in the first place? I’m already paying extra for that stuff. It’s between you and your employer what you get paid wouldn’t you agree?
In reply to bhagwad
The payment of employee is between the employee and the employer only. I want to know, if yall are gots so much smarts, how could the bad state of the employee fall on the consumer? why don’t wait staff do something about it? unionize, demand higher wages or quit?
no one has answered this directly.
In reply to Common Sense
BTW i hate to sound mean, but as a consumer, you’re paying bills is not my responsibility. My responsibility is my own fiscal responsibility, which would include not tipping if I didn’t want to. Think I’m being mean? well that’s how capitalism works.
There was another system that fell around 1991 that fell around poverty that guranteed fair wages, but like i said, that system fell in 1991.
I am 100% wholeheartedly against tipping, but I generally do it anyway just because it is a cultural norm. Employers should be solely responsible for the full wage of the worker, it’s as simple as that. If you want to offer incentives for better service, there are plenty of ways to do that without tipping. Some restaurants have feedback cards where if you fill one out you get entered into some random prize drawing or something. You could easily get real, measurable metrics from a serious system like that, so that you can give your waiters and waitresses bonuses for great customer satisfaction, not under-the-table money for how well they can extort voluntary-but-not-really tips from customers.
As a customer, I do NOT enjoy the experience of having to think about how much I’m going to tip the waiter because it almost always involves guilt. I think to myself, the service was good and the person seemed like a nice gal or fellow, and I end up paying more just so I don’t have the feeling that I disappointed the person, insulted them or otherwise give them a “why me?” bummer kind of night. So if there actually were restaurants around where they actually pay their staff properly and do not accept tips (or make it crystal clear that tipping is *not* expected), then I would go to those places in a heartbeat. It’s more honest, the customers are happy, and the waiters don’t get dragged into feeling entitled to someone else’s donation. Anyone who says the system can not work without tipping, needs to go to Japan. Tipping is out of the question, and yet their customer service as a whole is significantly better than it is here in the USA. And most importantly servers and customers don’t have that awkward tipping relationship.
In reply to David
you know also david in japan, they really don’t have minimum wage either, so people cant use that argument. In japan, customer service is pretty much the best in the world. Have you also noticed that in developing countries, the restaraunts have TOP NOTCH food and service? That’s because they know that THEY are serving the customers, not the other way around. here in the US, the people who are supposed to satisfy the customers feel ENTITLED themselves to be satisfied by the customers. This, btw is a very new phenomena.
Tipping is nothing more than a guilt trip. Thats why i don’t like restaraunts anymore. The food is not stellar even at 5 star restaraunts.
I love to go to ethnic restaraunts because they don’t expect tips, the service is excellent and they make sure you are satisfied. American wait staff members feel taht they have to drain every penny out of you and feel ENTITLED to a tip.
I totally think that everyone should be paid at least the minimum wage or more by the restaurant, so they do not have to beg like a persistant hungry dog at the table. The employers say that there will be no service if the staff does not get tips. Why do they think this?? Do the grocery stores smash your eggs when they bag them if they don’t get a tip? Do car rental agents put sugar in the rental cars gas tank if you don’t tip them??Does the pet store worker switch the dog treats for posion if you don’t tip them?? There is no relation to the promise of bad service if the restaurants pay employees at least minimum wage or more, good service becomes part of the job description, just like it is in hundreds of other jobs out there.
In reply to JJ
even if there were no minimum wage, people should work honestly and hard. the comparisons you make are on point. Why do tips get singled out to wait staff? have you ever noticed that wait staff never unionize?
BTW if the job pays less than minimum wage, i’m still waiting for an answer as to why wait staff continue to AGREE to be servers if they KNOW from the beginning that the pay is going to be so low. Sounds like another example of typical Americans being fiscally irresponsible (and yes I was born here).
In reply to JJ
You hit the nail on the head JJ. And here I though I was going to quit the discussions here, as I’m starting to regurgitate Mr Jal Park’s original thoughts. But you dragged me back in. I’m going to flip sides for a moment. I was just tell a friend how a gave a mechanic a $20.00 tip. I’m sure you’re all saying “well he gets paid well, so why would you tip him?” The answer is…he went way beyond his job and duty as a mechanic, to help me. That’s when a tip is TRULY deserved. NOT for just doing you job.
In reply to Zapious
Sorry, Mr author if I got your name in the wrong order. I was originally going to put Mr. Bhaghwad.
I’m ignorant. Perhaps your name is said like the “Bajorans” (Star Trek NG) Family name first, individual second. See we all need a little education!
In reply to Zapious
Ah, it doesn’t matter – I’m not sensitive about stuff like this :)
You people are assholes. Going on and on about how servers are uneducated and don’t want to get a better job. Hate to break it to you but a lot of servers have university degrees. You don’t know why they are working that current job so stop judging. If you want the restaurant paying the employers to pay a better wage to the server then get ready to see HUGE increases in prices of food because most people won’t be doing that job for minimum wage. Restaurants keep food costs down because they can pay servers lower wages. If you don’t want to tip then expect to get very basic service. Its not really my job to go out of my way to make your experience enjoyable, my job would be to just bring you your food. If you can’t be bothered tipping then eat at home.
In reply to t
I’ll be more than happy if you just bring me my food. Just convey it from the kitchen to my table. Thank you very much.
In reply to t
i never indicated that servers are uneducated, but that is aside from the point. I already see hugely marked up prices at restaraunts anyways. Don’t you think that if the waiters were payed their appropriate wages, the market would balance the costs out?
You alsoindicated that you would see huge increaes in the price of food. Although this is not possible lets break it down. Wages increase, but that causes prices to increase, forcing consumers to STOP eating out. Wouldn’t that hurt the waiter even more forcing them to be laid off? That argument has little grounds.
You also indicated that it is NOT your job to make the experience enjoyable, but just bring your food. Then what grounds do I have to pay you ADDITIONALLY from your employer?
Tips should only be seen as a nice incentive for working hard on the job. Zapious indicated this quite nicely above. Everyone should just stop whining and do their job or quit.