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If you don't like the tip economy, then don't participate in it by avoiding restaurants that underpay their employees. But don't take it out on the employee, they're already the victim, and the restaurant owner doesn't care about your protest.
If anything, tip your server in cash, then run out on the bill.
The law says: nope.
Change your laws. Stop whining. Servers voted to keep the tip system because they make bank. Don't complain.
The thing is, lots of tipped workers also fight being paid a living wage because they make way more money off tips than they otherwise would at a job with similar qualifications. If a server is only working 6 tables in an hour and averages only 5 dollars a table in tips, that's $30 an hour. There's no way that if tips were eliminated that restaurants would bump salaries that much.
The only correct take. Everything else is virtue signalling.
As much as I hate tipping (I also don't get paid extra money for simply doing my fucking job), it is different in third world countries like the USA (a large country in north america, close to Canada and Mexico), which lacks fundamental human rights and a social security system. There, waiters in restaurants usually need tips for earning a living wage as restaurant owners do not or barely pay them. Therefore, tipping is Not only polite but also necessary to not additionally punish workers for a system they are barely responsible for. Let's hope that civilised countries start development projects in the USA in order to improve the system and living conditions of these people.
Political change is difficult as the USA is stuck in a quasi-democratic two-party system that is currently developing towards a dictatorship. But maybe through enough time and effort we can help this country and it's people to get on a better track.
On point, but "quasi-democratic" is a bit over the top.
(American here, it's not democratic at all really)
Before you say this is great, remember that those people willingly traveled to the US for a fascist event.
Any way the US could keep them?
Seriously please yes, to any Europeans visiting the USA, do this. You have my permission as a US citizen to never tip if it's not listed on the menu as required.
I'm teaching you a lesson by giving you business, then finger wagging at you.
Unfortunately righteous causes don't pay the bills.
Even when the righteous cause is a living wage? 🤔
Yeah, not paying a tip cause you think the worker deserves a living wage definitely fucks the worker over, rather than the business. So there might be righteous anger, but it's directed at the one you're trying to help.
So instead of refusing to tip they should order take out and then make a stink about the tip economy in the US. My family rarely eats out and a large portion of that decision is because of the tip economy. When we do though, I make sure to tip the servers well unless they're horrid because they won't get paid otherwise.