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In reply to the discussion: Rich people find a new reason to stiff servers? [View all]MrModerate
(9,753 posts)Was clearly (if real) a jerk. The notion that 'increasing taxes' would render you unable to pay a tip, but still able to afford to eat out is just preposterous. And deliberately provocative as if the tipper is convinced that waiters and waitresses must be Obama voters and hence should be punished.
That having been said, I'm not a very big tipper myself. I can't bring myself to believe that tipping has anything to do with good service. For me, it's an unavoidable custom as well as an uncomfortable acknowledgment that restaurant owners abuse their employees and are allowed to get away with it. I give grudgingly.
I much prefer the system where I'm living now Australia where you don't tip at all, and instead, employers pay wait staff a living wage. Restaurant food is much more expensive here, but it isn't served with the stink of injustice that I smell in the States.
And the quality of the service is comparable.
If I were in the food service business, I'd be agitating to get owners to pay the real costs of their business and incorporate it in their business model and not pretend that the uncertain charity of strangers is a legitimate component of their employees' compensation.