• Korne127@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Tips in the US must be entirely out of control. In my experience, 10% is for good service, above for rare exceptional and less if you weren’t entirely satisfied. Not even printing anything below 16 is insane.

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        5 months ago

        Oh right i forgot about that. That’s insane as well; minimum wage should be… well, minimum, obviously; for everyone.

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          5 months ago

          Sad thing is regular minimum is only $7.25 at the federal level. This country absolutely despises it’s workers.

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            5 months ago

            That’s the true problem, federal minimum wage hasn’t changed in decades despite the inflation and costs over the years! That’s the true problem!

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        5 months ago

        I’m not sure it would be better without minimum wage for tipped employees rule. For example the minimum wage in Ontario is $17 and it’s the same for servers, but all the restaurants have tip suggestions like: 18%, 20% and 25%

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        5 months ago

        Idk where you are living but in MN it’s $11.10/hr plus tips. I get paid more because I am an assistant manager as well so $15/hr plus my tips as a server. I make almost 3X more than when I was a teacher working full time and I have half as many hours…

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      5 months ago

      the idea of percentage based tipping is so wild to me, in my mind a tip is only based on the reason i want to tip them.
      If they did an impressive job but just did their job then i’ll give them a euro or something, if they had to endure something miserable like cleaning up baby vomit then they get like 10 euro because god knows that’s what i’d need to stay on that job.

      Also, importantly, the tip is in cash and goes directly to the person i think deserves it, and i’m going to tell the worker that wink wink nudge nudge if the employer asks then i didn’t give them a tip.