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Old 03-23-2018, 03:31 AM
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You had used the word "stingy" in your previous response to describe tipping habits. Also, you used the word "pathetic" in this response to describe compensation. To me, that sounds like you are making moral arguments. People, by and large, receive compensation according to the revenue (and the margins on that revenue) they bring into a business coupled with the supply and demand for their skill sets (at least in the private sector). While I tip pretty well, I neither concern myself with nor make judgement calls on what others tip and I really have very little impact on what servers make (regardless of how much I tip).



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Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa View Post
Yes. A closer look tells me that tipped servers get at least the Florida Minimum Wage of $8.25 an hour. When I am wrong, I acknowledge it. That's still pathetic compensation.

On your second point, I didn't introduce "morality" into the discussion. Several previous posters have already touched upon tipping people even for poor service as a matter of compassion for the less fortunate.

Decades ago I began overtipping older female food servers in honor of the fact that my mother did not have to work at such laborious duties in her "Golden Years."

As Shakespeare said, Compassion cannot be forced. You have it or you don't. "It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
‘T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown: ......
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;" --- (The Merchant of Venice)

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