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[–] aaa@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

In the region of the world I’m from, waiter unions themselves are against tipping. The reasons I have heard are that

  1. wage negotiations should not happen between customers and employees
  2. the principle of everyone’s salary being enough to cover all costs of living
  3. neither customer nor employee will benefit from service staff having too low wages
  4. worker’s rights cannot practically be built using funds from tipping
  5. normalising tipping will be used by the employer as an argument to pay below liveable wages

That being said, waiters are given a liveable wage here. And locals also sometimes tip for great service. But that’s just a bonus for the waiter, not the expectation.

I would personally suggest you reevaluate your pro-tipping stance given the above, but I don’t know where in the world you’re from, nor how waiters are treated or paid there