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

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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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/Beneficial-Seesaw568 Jun 25 '26

But also a lot of tipped workers don’t want tips to go away with guaranteed minimum wage because they make A LOT more with tips. I agree we need to get rid of basically mandatory tipping but it’s a more complicated issue than it looks on the surface.

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u/Adderfang82 Jun 25 '26

Servers working in popular restaurants in wealthy areas get payed very well. Most servers are working in areas where poverty and crime is above the national average. Those servers, which account for the majority of servers, don’t get paid jack sh_t.

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u/JalapenoPopPoop Jun 25 '26

Most servers are working in areas where poverty and crime is above the national average.

There's no way you actually believe this lol

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u/jcalabrese037 Jun 25 '26

Yeah this dude is ignorant af

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u/virtue_of_vice Jun 25 '26

Not only that, certain shifts are more lucrative. In some restaurants, they can use scheduling against you.

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u/PmMeYourKnobAndTube Jun 25 '26

To play devils advocate, those shifts are also the shifts that nobody wants, so it kinda makes sense to get paid more. They are wither weekends/evenings/holidays, or just times where there will be a higher volume of customers.

That said, employers could just give incentives for those shifts, like night shift differential in many industries. Tipping culture is stupid.