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Anyone have thoughts on if tipping practices (15-20% for the sake of this conversation) should change based on min wage increases. In many west coast cities (SD, Seattle, SF, etc) the min wage is increasing to 15 dollars per hour by 2020. At that point, a full time server would earn 30K before any tips are accounted for.
Are you planning on adjusting your tipping percentage as min wage goes up?
No. Because tips will continue to work the same way they do now. Most servers get an hourly rate that is less than minimum wage. But, their hourly rate PLUS tips must meet or exceed the minimum wage. If they do not, the restaurant has to make up the short fall. Nothing about increasing the minimum wage changes this dynamic so I won't change the way I tip either.
No. Because tips will continue to work the same way they do now. Most servers get an hourly rate that is less than minimum wage. But, their hourly rate PLUS tips must meet or exceed the minimum wage. If they do not, the restaurant has to make up the short fall. Nothing about increasing the minimum wage changes this dynamic so I won't change the way I tip either.
Actually in the west coast states the idea of making $2.15/hr is long gone. Waiters make min wage (true min wage, not the tipping min wage) which negates the main point of tipping IMO. Servers in those states will be making a base of $15/hr soon, a far cry from the $2.15/hr they used to make requiring tips.
For those who think servers and others in professions where tipping is the norm are raking in the big bucks and getting rich, why don't you quit your current job/career (if you have one at all) and get a job in which a good portion of your pay is in tips.
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For those who think servers and others in professions where tipping is the norm are raking in the big bucks and getting rich, why don't you quit your current job/career (if you have one at all) and get a job in which a good portion of your pay is in tips.
I agree. It's hard to make it on $30k here, tips bring them enough to afford a modest studio apartment. Plus, for. Me a tip is still acknowedgement of good service, and I tip from 0-20% based on that service. Minimum wage has no effect on that.
Anyone have thoughts on if tipping practices (15-20% for the sake of this conversation) should change based on min wage increases. In many west coast cities (SD, Seattle, SF, etc) the min wage is increasing to 15 dollars per hour by 2020. At that point, a full time server would earn 30K before any tips are accounted for.
Are you planning on adjusting your tipping percentage as min wage goes up?
I always think tippings are the lordly practices. I don't take my brothers or sisters as servants, who should only have the crumbs falling under my table.
But as for this traditional European practicing sake, I tipped the waiters and waitress 1-5 dollars per meal in the N. America. In fact, I was so embrassed at the tipping practices, I ate mostly at the Chinese resturants or the Mall's food courts. However, I still tipped in my Chinese resturants. But as for all we knew, they were the local practices.
It was embrassing I evelated myself to practice these European ways. This is my Asian thinking.
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