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0 pointsbena7y ago0 comments

And that's why tipping won't die because the few people who can make bank off of sob stories and bad logic.

Sorry, waiting tables is not a really complicated skill. Tipping is not related to quality of service.

Most people don't think about tipping. They do it because it's expected and maybe the waitress is hot. If pressed, they would likely prefer not to do it.

Servers are also some of the most disingenuous people I've seen when arguing about tipping. Because that top tier knows they can make a lot of money in a low-skill job. They like to complain about how much money they make and how screwed over they are by tips, but when restaurants pay a fair wage and eliminate tips, the staff abandons them for places that do tip. Why? Money.

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mxfh7y ago

Some people like to be in control, that's ok. Tipping bundles a simple service task to the in most jobs needless component of giving the customer the illusion of attention. If you're a waitress by choice and tipping works for you, that's fine too, but it simply doesn't scale to a large scale gig based economy. Being able to extract that amount of tips is a skill, that not everybody has. If venues could, they probably would take money for customer facing service job opportunities to work there for tips to exploit that skill, which would be the more honest free market model in my opinion.

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0 pointsbena7y ago0 comments

And that's why tipping won't die because the few people who can make bank off of sob stories and bad logic.

Sorry, waiting tables is not a really complicated skill. Tipping is not related to quality of service.

Most people don't think about tipping. They do it because it's expected and maybe the waitress is hot. If pressed, they would likely prefer not to do it.

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