• Matharl@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I still can’t understand why americans still tolerate tip culture.

    We don’t have mandatory tips in Europe and still have people working at McDonald’s or similar restaurants : In France, it’s even one of the biggest employer of the country.

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      1 year ago

      Because in some places it’s the only way for the staff to make livable wages. If our store didn’t allow tips I’d be missing 10 - 20% of the pay I get, and with the situation I’m in, everything helps.

      And while I would love for tips to go away, and for our minimum wage to reflect the reality of our economy, that doesn’t seem to be happening nearly fast enough, or in some places, at all.

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        1 year ago

        I see accepting that is part of ‘tolerating tipping culture’. Indeed, the system as it is now would not realistically allow for tipping to be obliterated. But just saying “it doesn’t work, for this and that reason…” and then continuing the status quo, will not change anything.

        You’ve seen what happens in France when the workers are unhappy. What America needs, first and foremost, is powerfull unions, make the minimal wage reflect a decent living wage at least, make the waiters wage an acceptable wage, and then abolish tipping. Accepting the status quo is tolerating it.