Why do Americans insist on tipping instead of paying decent wages?

[Maurice Maine]

Very retarded and then the Bobson-tier dregs who work at the service industry demand the difference to be made up by people who have nothing to do on the matter.

 

[Gog & Magog]

I never tip (unless she real pretty.)

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

Jewish trickery
Why pay wage when customer can do it for you

 

[Not 6 Foot]

The fact that a barista now wants a tip for pouring me a straight black coffee is what's getting me. Tips should be bonus for doing an exceptional job.
IE: My party of 12 never had to ask for our drinks to be topped up at the restaurant AND all of the finished dishes were cleaned up promptly and without interrupting us. You get a tip. Probably a generous one.

 

[oldTireWater]

All dining should be buffet style.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

It’s the most awkward sub-culture because some people stake their livelihoods on it and are very passionate about tipping, and some never tip at all like some blacks.

And in between are people that don’t want to break the bank for a room-temperature meal…so they’ll only tip as much as necessary that they don’t get the evil eye or shamed on social media and so you have to play mind-checkers in your head and try to find that magic number percent that won’t get spit in your next meal at that establishment.

It’s actually stressful

 

[Chongqing]

Everybody wants to feel like a king with a pleb's livelihoods in their hands.

Edit to add: I didn't tip for an entire year once (New Year's resolution) and I felt like a terrorist. I could tell that people were reacting to it.

Although half the time I felt great because I would get bad service beforehand anyway.

I know they say you should not tip for bad service, but I've never seen anyone actually avoid doing it.

 

[The Connected Nose]

I don't mind tipping at a sit-down place, especially if the service is good. But if I have to stand at a counter to order my food? Fuck you for asking me to tip. The only exception I make is the locally-owned Greek place with the cute 20-somethings.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

Get away with paying shit wages, duh

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Because the vast majority of people arnt restaurant owners. The current tipping system could only be created by the slimiest no moral jews around, but the system is firmly in place and I don't want to fuck over the waiter more importantly i don't want them to spit in my food. It preys on the good nature of people while being perpetrated by the greediest soulless people around.
They say it's because restaurants have such small margins but fuck off if you can't pay your staff you're just putting off the inevitable.

 

[Nicholas Gur]

Delivery fee is not a tip

It is the way I use it.

 

[Spud]

It has gotten out of hand. Doctors even have the audacity to ask for a tip after a circumcision surgery, my guy you've just taken it.

 

[Axiom.]

"The change starts with you" mentality is goy weapon.

 

[Rango Dango]

I've read somewhere that they actually tried to implement decent wages, but the waiters were pissed or something because they get more from tips in total
I don't know how true that is, cuz i read it on reddit so yk

 

[draggs]

1. Law requires that tipped employees must make at least minimum wage from the combination of their tips + wage (which is allowed to be lower than minimum wage). If the tips + wage don't reach what they would make purely working for minimum wage, the business is required to pay the employee the difference

2. Tipping can and usually does bring in far more money than a flat hourly wage. This is an extreme, but there are restaurants in big cities where the wait staff make no wage at all, and actually pay the restaurant a fee to work there (in NYC it can be as high as $50,000 a year at some restaurants), because they make significantly more than that (a quarter million dollars a year or MORE) in tips

 

[Trump's Chosen]

Have you had service in Europe? That's why.

 

[Epic Fail Man]

I never tip (unless she real pretty.)

she'll never fuck you so whats the point.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

why dont you mind your fuckin business

 

[Grub]

Tips should be bonus for doing an exceptional job.

This is what I don't get. I'm trying think of when exactly the mindset changed from tips being a little bonus from the customer in a restaurant or something to being expected from literally every customer service person for doing literally any job. I definitely don't remember it being that way when I was a kid.

 

[libRT]

Yeah I assume its because people can make more on tips than usual wages. Pre-prohibition era ( before tipping became popular), it was frowned upon because it was considered buying preferential service.

It's part of the reason I've stopped using food delivery apps because its expected even if the food turns up cold and in an absolute state.