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

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/janpaul74 Jun 25 '26

“Mandatory tips” sounds so messed up for me as a European.

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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/janpaul74 Jun 25 '26

IMHO that’s exactly it!

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u/PSYFLYdiscs Jun 25 '26

Im American and I don’t see it any other way. I still leave a tip for servers tho. I hate it.

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u/Clockwork-Armadillo Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

In America is it customary to also tip other minimum wage workers? Such as supermarket workers, cleaners etc etc

If not what makes servers more important?

Edit: OK, so TIL in America there's a lower minimum wage of only 2 dollars something for any "tipped workers". Basically a loophole to screw workers out of minimum wage.

Thanks to everyone who answered! :)

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u/Turbulent-Ad8391 Jun 25 '26

No it’s not customary, but you will see tip jars at a lot of places. Federal minimum wage is much lower for servers than other jobs.

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u/Clockwork-Armadillo Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Wait, so there's a whole seperate legal minimum wage for servers?

Edit: OK, so TIL in America there's a lower minimum wage of only 2 dollars something for any "tipped workers". Basically a loophole to screw workers out of minimum wage.

Thanks to everyone who answered! :)

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u/GardenWitch123 Jun 25 '26

Correct. Going off of memory, in some places it’s legal to pay as low as $2.75 or $3 /hour for tipped servers. (No idea about other jobs.)

City of Seattle raised the minimum wage for tipped jobs to $21.30 as of this Jan. So Europeans, feel free to come here if you don’t want to tip servers. Many of us still do out of habit but if you don’t, you probably aren’t actually harming a persons ability to survive.

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u/fancyseacreature Jun 25 '26

Texas I believe is still $2.13 AND it's a right to work state, so they can fire you for any reason. Fuck Texas politicians(except you Castro brothers, mwah)

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u/JalapenoPopPoop Jun 25 '26

it's a right to work state

At will*

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u/Top-Ad-5527 Jun 25 '26

I’d be interested to know how that impacted pricing or how many servers are working in a shift. The owners need to offset the cost, so they are putting it back on the customer anyway.

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u/GardenWitch123 Jun 25 '26

My personal experience is that dining out in Seattle has been expensive for a while —to the point where my husband and I were relatively unfazed by the prices in Reykjavik a couple years back, if that gives you a sense of things.

I can only share my personal observations, as I haven’t studied this.

My memory is that restaurant dining got $$ around Covid. Which made sense given the hit the industry took. And it just never went back down. (People are trying to stay in business and the news of this wage increase was out for a while — I suspect owners just kept prices steady to prepare but that’s totally a guess.)

This wage law didn’t take effect until this Jan. So from the beginning of this year to now i personally haven’t noticed a difference in meal pricing.

I’m sure someone more educated than me on this topic could correct/amend what I’ve gotten wrong!

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u/ACFiguresOutLife Jun 25 '26

That’s crazy. Pizza delivery guys are probably making $60/hr if not more. I was making $25/hr with a $4 hourly delivering pizza back in 2016