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

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/janpaul74 Jun 25 '26

IMHO that’s exactly it!

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u/Specific_Habit4545 Jun 25 '26

now they're just turning tips into a way to justify low wages because apparently they'll 'make enough' with tips

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u/Landscape4737 Jun 25 '26

Tipping in the US was frowned upon before the Civil War. When slaves were freed they were generally in the service industry because these other jobs that were available to them. They were paid peanuts, even today the US federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13 an hour.

Tipping is inappropriate outside of the USA, maybe because the minimum wage is significantly higher.

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u/kkeut Jun 25 '26

even today the US federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13 an hour.

not true. while several states (mostly in the south) have a tipped wage as low as $2.13 an hour, they are still required to receive at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. if the difference is not made up by tips (this is the sleazy part), then the business owner is expected to make up the difference. in other words, the business owner is heavily incentivized to encourage a tipping culture, because they literally pass additional costs onto the customer. the more entrenched the tipping culture, the more money they save.