It's crazy that you think he's being subsidized by others at a 10-15% tip when half the country barely have the decency to flush a public toilet anymore.
It is painfully obvious that none of you have worked in food service before.
Servers have a very well defined average tip per table/ticket. That average functions as both an expected wage for the server and an expected cost for the customer. If that average falls too low, then no one wants the job.
Anyone who tips below the average is having their service subsidized by other customers. This is simple logic. It does not require a conscious decision, on the part of the above average tipper, to subsidize the non-tippers. You’re projecting a motivation onto a dynamic that requires none.
10-15% is still probably way above average. Especially if you count dine and dashes as negative tips, since we're using them to balance the cost of services.
Outside of the very worst blue cities with overwhelmingly black customer bases, dine and dashes are exceedingly rare. So much so that they still go viral on social media. They are not a major factor in this calculus unless they are, at which point the restaurant will quickly become insolvent.
If it's baked into the costing then put it in the actual contract (aka the sticker price), don't just leave it to the more generous of society to pick up the slack of the ballooning feral population all by themselves.
If your argument is that blacks ruin stuff, then “food service economies” is way down that list. Tipping culture works fine for most of the population in most areas. In places where blacks proliferate, you see automatic gratuities, and that’s literally the contact you’re asking for.
Auto added, digitally paid tips at a chain restaurant do not even come close to existing under the table. That's the vast majority of tips these days, it's time to adapt to the current situation, not one from 30 years ago.
I live in a major American city. Top 20 market. The vast majority of restaurants here do not require automatic gratuities. That shit is mostly restricted to very high end dining, which is maybe 5% of all transactions? It is becoming more common in the biggest cities in America, precisely because of the increasing “feral population”, but again… automatic gratuity is functionally identical to a higher wage + higher cost. So where’s the issue here? You object to tipping in places where it doesn’t cause problems and you object to “fake tipping” everywhere else? Are you sure you aren’t just a eurofag stuck on outdated programming?
It is painfully obvious that none of you have worked in food service before.
Servers have a very well defined average tip per table/ticket. That average functions as both an expected wage for the server and an expected cost for the customer. If that average falls too low, then no one wants the job.
Anyone who tips below the average is having their service subsidized by other customers. This is simple logic. It does not require a conscious decision, on the part of the above average tipper, to subsidize the non-tippers. You’re projecting a motivation onto a dynamic that requires none.
Outside of the very worst blue cities with overwhelmingly black customer bases, dine and dashes are exceedingly rare. So much so that they still go viral on social media. They are not a major factor in this calculus unless they are, at which point the restaurant will quickly become insolvent.
If your argument is that blacks ruin stuff, then “food service economies” is way down that list. Tipping culture works fine for most of the population in most areas. In places where blacks proliferate, you see automatic gratuities, and that’s literally the contact you’re asking for.
I live in a major American city. Top 20 market. The vast majority of restaurants here do not require automatic gratuities. That shit is mostly restricted to very high end dining, which is maybe 5% of all transactions? It is becoming more common in the biggest cities in America, precisely because of the increasing “feral population”, but again… automatic gratuity is functionally identical to a higher wage + higher cost. So where’s the issue here? You object to tipping in places where it doesn’t cause problems and you object to “fake tipping” everywhere else? Are you sure you aren’t just a eurofag stuck on outdated programming?