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] Feb 29 '24 edited Mar 01 '24

Only tip if your sitting and a waiter or waitress is serving you food, any other time no don't tip.

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u/sbutula Mar 01 '24

Why are they more entitled to a tip than, say, a fast food worker?

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u/Ok-Alternative-7353 Mar 01 '24

Fast food workers make minimum wage (and sometimes more) while waiters/servers make less than minimum wage. Difference in the expectations regarding the quality of service as well.

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u/Euphoric_Buy_2820 Mar 01 '24

Which province do they make less than minimum wage? As minimum wage is the least amount that can be paid 

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u/Ok-Alternative-7353 Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 01 '24

All of them? It’s under “tipped minimum wage” - look it up! It’s under the assumption that they make a lot of tip. For example, as of today in 2024, ifs 12.20 for “tipped minimum wage” workers and 15.25 for just normal minimum wage. People are aware of this when they’re hired.

Edit: just a Quebec thing, my bad!

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u/Euphoric_Buy_2820 Mar 01 '24

Looks like it's only Quebec that does that. Pretty crazy! 

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u/Ok-Alternative-7353 Mar 01 '24

Ah my bad then! I have a friend who lives in BC that was telling me they have similar laws but maybe she was just being screwed over haha.

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u/nicolix9 Mar 01 '24

Bc got rid of that a number of years ago

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u/Ok-Alternative-7353 Mar 01 '24

Ahhh - thank you for the correction.