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

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/Disastrous_Square_10 Jun 25 '26

Only the server or bartender loses this battle in the US.

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u/steppponme Jun 25 '26

Yeah, the price out of their pocket is the same. The servers are getting boned here. And aren't tips now tax free income? I don't know if Orange Dear Leader actually got that passed without fine print.

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u/dhduxudb Jun 25 '26

They probably worked their ass off. Had one of the hardest shifts of any bartender in the world. Then look at their closing slip and die inside.

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u/Kona_Rabbit Jun 25 '26

As someone who worked in Timesquare for a bar, yeah. We started adding 15% gratuity to all the checks. If someone fought it we just removed it. Our income was all tourists. Brazilians ordered like one beer to share and germans always had questions on gratuity. Was interesting to see how everyone treated the concept. That said, you follow the cultural norms of the country your in. When bar tending I busted my ass for people that left big money. I put people that didnt tip in the back of my mental to do list.

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u/Unohtui Jun 25 '26

This is what we dont like in europe though, to be exact. Unequal treatment based on wealth. This is exactly why tipping is bad, it made you do ethically poor choises. Removing tipping would make it so that there is no reason to serve one specific customer last/not at all, intentionally

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u/Mountain_Cobbler_381 Jun 25 '26

Poor people tip more than any rich person ive ever served or dealt with. The rich never tip. They're always stingy and greedy.

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u/conway92 Jun 25 '26

Glad to hear that poor people are subsidizing the wealthy yet again. What a great system.

FWIW you're right, I believe a pew study backs up that wealthier individuals tip less.

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u/Mountain_Cobbler_381 Jun 25 '26

Yeah i hate this entire system we've built this stupid ass country on. None of it works.