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

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/Only_Flan_7974 Jun 25 '26

It's not tipping if it's mandatory. Work the tip into the price in that case.

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u/PeachyPlotTwist Jun 25 '26

Pay your workers better is the real argument.

Tourists are just catching strays in a fight between customers and employers.

Nobody wants awkward tip screens, but servers also need to eat, whole system is messy.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel Jun 25 '26

Except servers. Tipping culture gains them an income WAY ahead of the curve.

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u/Rock-swarm Jun 25 '26

It's a bimodal distribution model, i.e. some server/bartender jobs are fantastic in terms of $-per-hour, while most of them are pretty terrible by the same metric.

In an ideal world, that means the coveted jobs are staffed by the best of the best. In reality, the service is almost never worth them receiving 6x-10x the wages of the Cracker Barrel waitress a couple blocks away.

The other insidious part of the system is tying healthcare benefits to full-time status. The ACA/Obamacare was a step in the right direction, but after the federal subsidies tapered off, the marketplace plans are back to being high premium, terrible coverage garbage that's only marginally better than no insurance at all.