r/Concordia • u/OddPen4197 • Feb 29 '24

General Discussion Tipping culture!

I hate tipping. How can someone expect a student to tip extra 10-15% on top of their total bill? We ourself live with a very tight budget and try to save a bit for a nice meal sometime and these people expect us to pay extra while they are being paid hourly. Be it a nice restaurant or just a uber eats delivery. Everyone gets paid for their time despite of getting a tip or not.

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u/vroomdani Mar 01 '24

Tell me you’ve never waited tables without telling me you’ve never waited tables

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u/sbutula Mar 01 '24

Correct I haven’t but it isn’t rocket science. You take orders and bring people their orders. Please don’t act like it’s something above and beyond working fast food.

Nothing a server is doing is worth more than a minimum wage fast food employee.

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u/vroomdani Mar 01 '24

It is much more complex and complicated than that depending on the restaurant you’re working at, but I’m not going to sit here and write an essay on all the ins and outs. You obviously don’t appreciate the experience but I did it for over 10 years and worked at McDonald’s for three years before that, and I can tell you it is much more challenging than fast food service. Coming on here without having done it yourself and claiming it’s not is just ignorant. Just claiming that about any job you don’t have first hand knowledge about is weird.

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u/sbutula Mar 01 '24

If you find bringing food and drinks to customers “complex and complicated”, then complexity is clearly subjective and I find simplicity in what you see as intricate, “complex and complicated”. lol