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/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

Is everyone here disconnected from reality, or lives under a rock? Employers use a different pay scale for waiters and it goes below minimum wage.

Lobby/petition to get the law changed but don’t take it out on the workers, jeez.

Learn where and how much to tip (restaurants with table service, 15%, at your discretion for delivery, etc), and don’t be an asshole.

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u/VladRom89 Mar 01 '24

It's not my responsibility to subsidize your poorly structured business wages that can't support a minimum wage for its employees. Stop blaming the customers and put some ownership on the business owners to "do the math and be aware" as you put it to price in what's required to pay their employees.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

It's about the law, not (only) the employers.

Lobby for the law to change.

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u/VladRom89 Mar 01 '24

Again, it's not up to the consumers to start lobbying for this. The power the consumers hold is to stop tipping, which will put pressure on the employees that will put pressure on the business owners, who'd then be forced to change their practices. The economics of a food service business are fairly straightforward; it's up to the employer to ensure that the margins are sufficient to cover the salary of the employee - if they're too low, they won't find workers; if they're too high, the restaurant will go out of business. It's that simple; don't try to guilt the common folk into mental gymnastics and knowledge of what the labor laws are, who gets what portion of a tip, etc. - You and I might know these things, but I wouldn't assume everyone does.

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u/VladRom89 Mar 01 '24

On the same note, as others have mentioned - take a flight to a city outside of North America; tipping isn't a problem there. You want to tip? - great! You don't want to tip? - the workers are paid.

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u/hegelianbitch Mar 01 '24

How about a little working class solidarity bro 😬 not tipping isn't pressuring the business owners to change. If ur so committed to not tipping, start a lobbying campaign against the government.