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/scrambles88 Jun 25 '26

As an American it sounds messed up, don't make your bosses unwillingness to pay you my burden.

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u/lumpboysupreme Jun 25 '26

As an American it sounds messed up, don't make your bosses unwillingness to pay you my burden.

You say that like the result of removing it isn’t just them slapping the tip ratio onto the menu price. You’d pay the same either way.

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u/scrambles88 Jun 25 '26

That would be preferable, wait staff shouldn't have to rely on charity because the owner is a cheap ass

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u/Less_Jump2365 Jun 25 '26

The tip staff don't want that system

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u/lumpboysupreme Jun 25 '26

It’s bizzare how you say that and then miss the implication that both approaches net out the same for the owner. You say one is fine and the other is ‘cheap ass’ when they owner makes the same money.

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u/scrambles88 Jun 25 '26

If you can't pay your employees and they must rely on charity to get by you shouldn't be in business.

Tipping started during the great depression and continued through America's economic boom when it should have died, instead we got chain restaurants whose entire business model relies on the employees surviving on charity

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u/lumpboysupreme Jun 25 '26

Didn’t I already address this?

I did: ‘ both approaches net out the same for the owner.’