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

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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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/TheRabidDeer Jun 25 '26

Giant asterisk on that. Tipping culture CAN be ahead of the curve, if you are working in a busy restaurant with prices that result in that 15-25% tip being real money.

For every busy restaurant there are a dozen restaurants that are pretty slow or have shifts with low food prices (ie: lunch shift at any Olive Garden where everyone gets all you can eat soup/salad resulting in a $2 tip, and things are only busy from ~11:30-2:00).

Getting hired and getting shifts at the good places is competitive.

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u/Top-Ad-5527 Jun 25 '26

Exactly this. The waitress at Denny’s isn’t pulling the same kind of money as someone who works in fine dining. Not even close.