[Babubhat]

Tipping is out of control video. Funny.

18%, 20%, 25%?!?!? At what point is enough enough? God forbid we pay servers

https://youtu.be/FVcp1grk51E

[Keefelane66]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

If you pay the tip in cash to whoever you feel deserves the tip, that person is responsible for declaring that income on their yearly tax return but - they also don't have to share that tip with anyone else. Granted, most cash-tip totals never make it into the tax return, but that's not your responsibility as the tipper.

When I worked a restaurant in Florida many years ago, we were paid $2.75/hour (give or take). It was /assumed/ that our tips combined with our wage equaled minimum wage - and we were taxed accordingly out of our paycheck. That was whether we were paid a tip in cash or credit card. But sometimes our tips didn't combine with our wages to equal minimum wage, and we overpaid tax, and earned less than minimum even before taxes were deducted.

Federal law has changed since then - but Florida law has not. Florida has no laws regarding how employers can/must treat wages of their employees. They don't even have a department of labor.

Like they say Welcome to the FREE State of Florida. In a right to work state the non organized labor employee gets taken advantage of.

[Whitley]

Originally Posted by Babubhat

Tipping is out of control video. Funny.

18%, 20%, 25%?!?!? At what point is enough enough? God forbid we pay servers more.

https://youtu.be/FVcp1grk51E

We are subsidizing the restaurant by paying their employees. I do not believe this was the original intent of tipping.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Whitley

We are subsidizing the restaurant by paying their employees. I do not believe this was the original intent of tipping.

It isn't. A "TIP" ,To Insure Prompt service was what you slipped the Maitre'd to get seated ahead of the common folks. What we think of as tips are "gratuities". A small "thanks" for service. When your change comes, pick up the bills, leave the coins. A small token of appreciation. Not intended as a subsidy for income. It has grown way beyond its intention and out of proportion.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Babubhat

Tipping is out of control video. Funny.

18%, 20%, 25%?!?!? At what point is enough enough? God forbid we pay servers

https://youtu.be/FVcp1grk51E

We already do. The moment a "tip" became expected, and not a pleasant little surprise, we were paying service workers to do their jobs. They began to expect and rely on ever increasing gratuities aka gifts. Businesses also realized they could shift some of their employee costs to the customers and no longer fully compensated those employees. Guilt the customer into higher and higher tips.
Service workers, in reality have no beef with customers who "under tip (seriously, who gets to decide right or wrong here?) or may not tip at all. The workers beef is with employers who take advantage of them, and government that allows it to happen.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

It isn't. A "TIP" ,To Insure Prompt service was what you slipped the Maitre'd to get seated ahead of the common folks. What we think of as tips are "gratuities". A small "thanks" for service. When your change comes, pick up the bills, leave the coins. A small token of appreciation. Not intended as a subsidy for income. It has grown way beyond its intention and out of proportion.

That's an urban legend. You can find actual fact-checking on this on SNOPES The Origins of Tipping | Snopes.com