Tips
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (189792)
Boise, Idaho
February 6, 2022 8:50pm CST
Okay. So, you take your retail workers, warehouse workers, grocery clerks, carpenters, interior decorators, painters, salon workers, motel/hotel workers, art curators, yard workers, maids, teachers, child care workers, and yes, even waiters and waitresses. They all do what their job title duties expect of them. Right? So why is it waiters and waitresses get tips? What is it so special that they do that they deserve tips and all these other workers(I'm sure I forgot some too) do that makes them deserve tips? Oh, I agree. If I get a get waiter or waitress and they have a great personality, do a great job, and really take good care of me as a customer they deserve a tip. But, not otherwise. If I get a snotty, bored jerk of a person taking my order and serving me food they will not get a tip. So, why is it the food industry deserves a tip and all other industries do not? I don't understand.
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@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
7 Feb 22
Work is work over there. ANd, I see where many places say they don't accept tips nowadays.
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@Vikingswest1 (7443)
• United States
7 Feb 22
There was a time that I did small jobs for cash. Painting, cleaning carpets, resurfacing resilient flooring or refinishing hardwood... other things too.
I made a bid for the job and agreed to a fee.
Most often, I would get the fee and a tip.
Servers are paid a low wage. They are required to report tips using the amount of food sold as a base. I believe it's 15%.
They are responsible to pay taxes on tips at 15% of the amount sold.
Even if they don't actually get 15% on every order.
I would think that service Unions would work to change that but the low wages keep the businesses solvent.
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@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
7 Feb 22
Ya, if you do a good job you should get a tip. But, I just don't think it should be mandatory.
Business solvency is something I don't agree with also. They should have a solvent business because of their ethics, not giving servers cheap hourly wage.
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@Vikingswest1 (7443)
• United States
7 Feb 22
@celticeagle
The alternative would be two eggs over easy, two bacon and toast with coffee for twenty five bucks.
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@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
7 Feb 22
@Vikingswest1 .......We pay about that to have it delivered.
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@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
7 Feb 22
That is something their union should work to change.
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@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
8 Feb 22
@LadyDuck .......I don't think they should be. A tip should be a surprise and done for good work, not expected.
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@LadyDuck (502187)
• Italy
8 Feb 22
@celticeagle - I think so, in the other parts of the world service is charged on the restaurant bill, no one is obliged to tip.
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@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
8 Feb 22
When I was on the road, back in my early twenties, my girlfriend left a penny tip for a very bad waitress we had had. She left a note saying: "Sorry, I didn't have any change."
@ihasaquestion (8273)
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7 Feb 22
Perhaps tipping helps or motivates them to stay on the job since the wages are low. Woud you want to wait on tables forever? Some do, while others don't.
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@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
8 Feb 22
@ihasaquestion ........I actually did work as a cocktail witness in my twenties and it wasn't much fun.
@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
7 Feb 22
I wouldn't wait tables to begin with much less stay. I think the low wage for these workers should change.
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@LindaOHio (222245)
• United States
7 Feb 22
I would much rather pay more for the food than to have to tip.
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