Don't come here and start a revolution were doing ok without you
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Don't come here and start a revolution were doing ok without you
You can go to a doctors office and see diplomas from Harvard.....are they real? Journalism has shown us that some diplomas are fake....go figure.....
Worth is relative and always will be....unless you live in a totalitarian society that has a manual, capatilism pays what the market will tolerate.
When your toilet overflows and you cant fix it...guess what.
When the bad guys are at the front door or the border, the cop and the soldier are worth their weight in gold.
First and foremost, some jobs have tipping built in, without tips they would be unfair wages. Shouldnt be any argument there.I can appreciate that you have your opinion and respect that. I am curious, though: why can the "tipping" jobs not be paid fairly when other service positions can be? We all encounter service providers every day that aren't in "tippable" jobs yet do fabulous work. If they don't do a good job, business goes elsewhere. If their employer can't get an effective employee for a low wage, he/she must increase the pay until competent employees are attracted. Why do you feel this system doesn't also apply to jobs which are tipped in the US?
Please understand I am not trying to change your mind or argue the point. I just want to better understand your position.
Tipping should be reserved for 3rd world country's
In AUSTRALIA people are paid what their services are worth and there is no tipping
What is typical pay (salary or wages) there for restaurant wait staff?
-Chris
Only in America!
Keep it there then and stop trying to introduce it to other countries.
I hate being hassled for "extra" in countries that had no tipping culture and until very recently, would follow me out of restaurants to return loose coin.
Now you get followed out of a restaurant because we haven't left a large tip.
Tipping is great , icing on the cake!
As a kid I parked cars at a posh country club , could drive the hell out of MG , MB , Corvettes even RR for over an hour , and they handed cash for scrubbing half the tread off the tires!!
Only in America!
Americans are generally known as generous/excessive tippers, particularly outside the States.
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With ever-increasing, government-dictated minimum-wages in the USA, perhaps we need to re-examine our tipping habits. (Have noticed restaurant prices are increasing several times faster than general inflation.) It's common that restaurants show the amounts of possible tips based on 15, 18, and 20 percent of the bill, which includes up to nearly 10-percent sales tax.
Was surprised to see the bill from a local Asian-cuisine restaurant with multiple tip-calculations based as low as ten percent. ... Thinking of revising my tipping practice to equal the local sales tax, rounded up to the nearest dollar since restaurant prices are increasing ten to thirty times faster than my pension increases.
Was surprised to see the bill from a local Asian-cuisine restaurant with multiple tip-calculations based as low as ten percent. ... Thinking of revising my tipping practice to equal the local sales tax, rounded up to the nearest dollar since restaurant prices are increasing ten to thirty times faster than my pension increases.
So you'll penalize the waiter or waitress? I can't speak to the restaurant prices vs your pension as I don't know the prices in your area or anything about your pension.
In restaurants, I have generally doubled the sales tax and rounded up. However, as the sales tax has increased, I am beginning to modify that a bit.
No. How am I penalizing the servicer when not fully participating in increasing their compensation many times faster (ten to thirty times) more than mine (which is supposedly based on government-calculated consumers' rise in cost of living)? The list prices also include paying for their faster-rising basic wages.
California is a unique situation and that is where you are. It's one of the very few states that requires paying waiters and waitresses minimum wage. California, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Alaska do so. In some other states there are numbers in between. For instance, Florida requires a minimum of $5.08 per hour. In 17 states, it's $2.13 an hour.
Tipping should be reserved for 3rd world country's
Can`t give a $ figure, but it`s a proper wage rate,either determined by negotiation or a wage fixing tribunal, not one that requires customer tipping to make it a reasonable amount. Plus there are loadings for weekends/public holidays, etc. 4 weeks annual holidays too.What is typical pay (salary or wages) there for restaurant wait staff?
-Chris
Seems to me that instead of increasing prices and paying staff properly out of the sales income, employers shift the obligation to pay their staff to their customers.
I often tip here in restaurants, but not at the level expected in USA.