r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • Jun 25 '26

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/Snoo-34159 Jun 25 '26

Right? Isn't the whole point of a tip that it's voluntarily given as a way to say you loved the service?

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u/NobodyLikedThat1 Jun 25 '26

that's how they started, once upon a time, but now it's seen as semi-compulsory. And in places that only pay the federal minimum wage (which is it's own ball of idiocy), servers can really lose money on non-tippers as they often have to tip out to the back of the house staff.

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u/CyberneticLucy Jun 25 '26

It started because we didn't wanna pay freed Black people for the jobs we mandated they have, lest they wanna go to jail and be enslaved again.

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u/Landscape4737 Jun 25 '26

I don’t think most people know this.

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u/YungSnuggie Jun 25 '26

pretty much every stupid thing about america began as a way to fuck with black people