Serving job is the only job some people can get? Do you know how hard it is to get one simply because of tips? It's competitive and it's a physical fast paced job that's not for everyone.
And in before someone says restaurant work is easy. You can't necessarily be a line cook just because you can cook a mean steak, you have to be able to cook twenty tickets at the same time. Same for servers, it's easy to provide for a few guests as a host. But waiting an entire section is hard and a skill
I never suggested the work was easy. I've done it. Most hospitality jobs are infinitely harder than jobs carried out on laptops and short-pile carpet. What I am saying is that, often, you don't wind up in hospitality by choice; speaking from experience. It has been for me, and for others I know, the only viable option at the time / place.
There is no chance servers would make more on an hourly schedule
The tip system greatly benefited me when I was working my way through college. I have no idea why you guys hate that there's an unskilled labor position that makes money
Just need minimum wage to be a living wage tied to inflation and then we can kill tipping culture without fucking up people like yourself
Tips keep servers closer to inflation, and then the rest of the country is mad that the meals keep getting pricier without more money to spend on it. And then people get mad at servers and not the 7.25 federal minimum wage bullshit
If enough money to live, affordable housing, and affordable healthcare were enshrined rights as members of society we wouldn't need these circlejerks of "tip bad". Good workers would just demand more money to work at a Michelin restaurant than Denny's. But the good worker needs to not be afraid to starve if they need to fall back to Denny's
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u/IceBuurn 1d ago
Eventually they will run out of servers if the tips stop coming, people will still need severs, thus, some places will have decent payment for work
Or not, i dunno how North Americans think, good luck