"European restaurants pay staff like any other profession and workers don’t rely on tips, so customers assume they’ve already paid for service".
Europeans are right on this one. The more years go by, the more I find tipping to be ridiculous. Tell me upfront what you expect, then I'll choose where to eat. Managers must adapt to customers, not us do their minimum wage employment practice.
#PAY YOUR FUCKING STAFF
Greetings from Europe, we're not baffled. We just don't play your game. Start paying your workers properly.
Oh what ever shall we do? The cash registers are bursting with cash due to the influx of visitors... but they're not tipping the servers.
I see absolutely no way that employers could make the situation fairer for servers, even if it were only for the duration of the event.
Gosh, if only there were some way!
Should we pay an actual wage?
NO! ITS EVERYONE ELSE WHO ARE WRONG!
We come from nations where staff get paid at least the minimum wage and don't rely on tips to make it up to that.
Yea, because tipping is intended to be optional.
The mere fact of trying to pressure or force the tipping will make sure I regard the service as not tip worthy.
It's not "culture" it's unfettered capitalism. Make your staff beg your customers for their wage instead of paying it yourself, great for bosses.
Fuck american tipping culture… Pay your staff fair…
I visited the US 3 years ago and tipping was a bloody pain in the bum. It added probably 20min to our meal as the waiters took a while to get change. Further, asking every 15 minutes how our meal was going was quite exhausting; mainly because we knew it was performative for more tips. We tipped 20% each time but it's really, really frustrating not knowing the price up front.
Back home, I'm used to paying up front and then leaving as soon as we're done. Waiters leave you alone, unless you're a regular, and ask you how the meal was at the till if you pay after.
Imagine the price being.. You know.. The price...
The cash registers are ringing, the beer is flowing and the tables are full.
So there is money to pay staff, right?
What did you expect? They come from non tipping cultures. Where wait staff make livable wages. Not their fault we are incapable of paying people enough to live.
Fighting back against what? Pay your employees.
Maybe if the US paid a decent minimum wage...
Pay wages wtf. Usa sucks so hard
Welcome to America, where we subsidize poverty level wages by adding 20-30% to your bill!
Fck the NY Post! It is a tRumpian rag not worthy of fishwrap.
No one should tip anyone. Tipping supports wage theft. If no one tipped, business models that depend on tipping would find no one to hire, so they'd be forced out of business, or need to start paying something closer to a living wage. Yes, this would happen on the backs of those currently working such jobs, but if nothing ever changes, then nothing ever changes.
Supporters say the move is intended to protect American servers
Protecting the servers from the customers!!This is a joke, right? If you really wanted to protect American servers you pay them respectable wages.
They should try to change this terrible custom
lmao NY Post getting pissy over what they call barbarians not leaving tips.
Ignoring the reality the unwritten rule of tipping for exceptional service was taken over by the restaurants and turned the gesture into a formality serving the owners, and the waiters now get gypped below minimum wage.
There is a no tipping culture in Europe.
The cash registers are ringing, the beer is flowing and the tables are full.
I live in KC. The restaurants are not full. I’ve seen article after article about how lodging reservations were low before the tournament and now that it’s started, no one is filling restaurants.
I'll never understand why the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" people see it as everybody else's responsibility to cushion the inumerable blows from their abusive relationships with their employers.
Didn't know this was a hot take but America hasn't provided tip worthy service for decades.
I would even wager that Gen Z and A would be blown away to see the level of service quality something like the boomer generation experienced.
A tip in America hasn't been a "bonus for good service" in decades; its the server's wage.
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