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Originally Posted by ilovetv
I think it would be a huge mistake to eliminate tipping and pay only a higher than minimum hourly wage. Tipping is immediate and direct feedback a customer gives about the server's job performance. Tipping INCENTIVIZES the server to do more for the customer than just appear to take the order and slap down the drinks and food and then leave.....leaving the customer without cutlery when he just got a steak, without a drink refill, or having the steak be too raw and nobody comes back to correct things.
Tipping also allows the server to develop "regulars" who come back and ask for him/her, and that is a good chance for young servers to see how to grow a business, or kill one with laziness and doing only the bare minimum.
This work is one of the best ways to learn how free enterprise works and how commissioned sales can become a career for a person who is motivated....and courteous......and hustles to please the customer.
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We would need then to apply that principle to every minimum or slightly above minimum wage earner. Those employees would only need to do a good job if they would reap a great tip, ie: sales assistants in stores, checkers at the grocery stores, yard people, babysitters and on and on goes the list.
These employees whose wages are tipped based, are having their job performance rated and graded by all different personality types in order to earn a decent wage and it is the strangest thing to me.
Pay the servers an appropriate wage and fire them if they don't do a good job, like every other employment. Why all the games for adequate compensation?