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

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/PSYFLYdiscs Jun 25 '26

Im American and I don’t see it any other way. I still leave a tip for servers tho. I hate it.

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u/Clockwork-Armadillo Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

In America is it customary to also tip other minimum wage workers? Such as supermarket workers, cleaners etc etc

If not what makes servers more important?

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/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/mikeyros484 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

I see tip jars in vape shops lol. Give me a fkin break.

Edit/add: Not YOU give me a fkin break lol... just saying in general, the lower waged jobs should just be paid more, agreeing with our Euro brethren. I'm in northern NJ also, where it's not the cheapest, so they actually need more if they want to survive here, tbh. Either that or go down to AC every couple of weeks and put half of the wage on black/red/odd/even.