At least five states are considering requiring full minimum wages for tip earners this year
At least five states are considering requiring full minimum wages for tip earners this year
Only seven states currently bar “subminimum” pay for tipped workers like bartenders and restaurant servers, but activists see 2024 as ripe to expand the tally to as many as 20.
As a german the whole tip system in the US is both redicilous and hilarious to me.
We have tipping here, too (we literally call it "drinking money"). With the difference, that it's pretty much voluntary and if you don't have much money (e.g. as a student) noone will expect you to tip.
Having tips be part of the actual wage totally defeats the point of them...So that should cover everyone in this day and age since everyone asks for a tip now /s
IT’S ABOUT TIME.
While I abhor the whole concept of tipping, the thing that really grinds my gears is that we are expected to pay a percentage of the bill for service. If I order a basic cheese pizza or a 16 ounce tomahawk steak with a big chunk of foie gras and all the trimmings the server does not have to do much extra work for the latter. But if I have to tip $5 on a $20 pizza, why the fuck do I have to tip $100 for almost the same amount of service for the steak? Sure it weighs more and you might need to make an extra trip to serve the trimmings, but WTF, the server is not providing any more value by serving an expensive dish.
If I order an expensive bottle of wine it takes no extra effort to serve, why should I pay a shit ton more service charge?
USA, get your shit together, this is so not right. Land of the free? My arse.
The state of Texas is committed to ending slavery in the coming decade. As a first step they are proposing that minimum wage should cover an entire cardboard box living quarters. And we're not talking shoebox size Amazon hand me downs that still have the return address tag! They will remove the tag and provide enough duct tape to seal that portion of the box. Under article 17 of the 2024 end of slavery pact, they propose that men and women under the age of 27 shall not be responsible for sealing and or weather proofing their cardboard boxes. Older people are not covered yet, but may be covered as soon as two or three more migrant babies are sold back to their respective Mexican families. Indeed, Texas is making strides to accommodate the world's demands for fair treatment of human rights and the people who should have them.
- Restaurants lobby US government to pay their staff less than minimum wage
- Restaurants tell customers if they want better service, they should tip their server
- Customers begrudgingly begin tipping their servers
- Sexually attractive female servers in their early 20s absolutely destroy, making people think there's a scam at work (seriously, I've seen girls I've worked with go on back to back WEEKEND vacations to Cancun on their tips, and I live in Canada, but it's not a scam, it's just horny dudes simping for their server)
- People start to complain about tipping culture, seemingly blaming the server for just working a job and not the restaurant owner for paying their staff starvation wages (we are here right now)
- States mandate minimum wage for service industry staff
- Restaurant prices go up to pay for wages but tip culture begins to go away
- Servers are making less money so they go get easier jobs that pay the same (working in a restaurant can be fucking BRUTAL)
- Restaurants hire more and more Indian immigrants, while hard working, are indicative of an even larger societal problem
- Restaurant owners continue to make out like bandits, while customers and staff get shafted.
I hope this becomes a more popular idea, I fucking hate tipping so much that I stopped going to restaurants.
Defeat the #fuckingcapitalists
I wish NC was one of them
yay another failed campaign promise by biden that he has left to be a state's rights issue and not all in the US will benefit