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Originally Posted by Pugchief
If you can't afford to tip 15-20%, don't eat out. Whether you agree with the "system" of gratuities in the US is immaterial; that's the way it is and the servers depend on the tips to make wages.
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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580
Are you implying we need to eat out because it is our responsibility to ensure that restaurant staff make a living wage? If restaurants payed their employees properly, tipping would be unnecessary and probably nonexistent. Customers have been conned into this tipping15, 20 and higher % because WE are their welfare subsidies. And the bs crack about "if you can't afford the tip", is just a passive-aggressive insult.
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You clearly don't understand how small businesses function. In order to make a profit and thus stay in business, you have to charge, in aggregate, more than the total cost of your expenses. Those expenses include wages. So let's hypothetically say that tipping was not customary (Japan is like that, you are expected NOT to tip). So instead of gratuities, the restaurant owner pays the waitstaff 20% more than they currently do. What do you think happens as a result? They raise the price of EVERY ITEM on the menu in order to still make the same profit. So does every other sit down restaurant. So you end up paying that "tip" either way. If you understood that, you wouldn't consider my "BS crack" to be passive aggressive, but rather, common sense.
You're welcome, and yes, I am a former small business (not restaurant) owner.