(June 7, 2017 at 6:57 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(June 7, 2017 at 7:00 am)Mr.Obvious Wrote: Culturaly obligatory tipping... It keeps being a strange concept to me.
It's not just cultural over here. Wait staff, in most states in America, can be payed WAY below minimum wage.
In Tennessee, where I live, wait staff minimum wage is $2.13 per hour. So, they are pretty much working for tips. There is never any excuse for service that bad, but I always tip because you never know what is going on in that person's life that may have just made them shitty at their job that day. Also, they probably have kids or dependents, (just playing the odds), so I don't want to be a reason why a kid doesn't eat or something.
If wage plus tips = less than minimum wage, the store is required by law to make up the difference.
I am typically a generous tipper, but I will not patronize an establishment that has any sort of mandatory gratuity and I will leave the tip the service deserves.
I, like many others, would far rather pay higher menu prices than deal with stupid gratuity rules.
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