The UGLY TRUTH About Tipping & Why You Shouldn't!
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
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The ugly truth about restaurant tipping and its seedy origins. And why you should abandon tipping for good.
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I always tip my hitman, love that guy.
You mean in the video-game Hitman, son? that's nice^^
Mine only gets a tip when he can actually kill me.
Do you use Jimmy on ninth street. I love that guy.
@@tayloryork8185 you use Jimmy too! Damn I haven't seen him in such a long time how is he?
@@louiswinters2265 I'm not legally allowed to talk about
Meanwhile in Japan: Giving a tip is concidered rude and an assumption that your boss isn't paying you well enough
in Japan
@@gyroscope8244 unfortunately, Japan also has its issues :'( namely stagnating birth rates, workaholism and suicide rates
@@Fak3Cake Not to mention the police have absolute power, pretty scary. Still a wonderful place though :)
US businesses have no qualms about not paying workers a living wage. They are very proud if they can get away with doing it, especially with the help of lawmakers in Washington DC to keep the working masses down.
it's the same here in Denmark.
Im a cook, never been tipped BUT after preparing food for many people my favorite thing to do is to go to the restroom and just see everyone barely talking at all while scarfing down there meal and that feels way better than receiving a tip :3
I've tiped cooks before left em nice I was happy I've given to a kid that got me catsup packets outside a fast-food franchise oh no you don't have too he sead, so I sead take it or it going on the ground
@@billhillyer334 lol the forceful way ayy lol, and as for me now that ive had time to think on it and remembering one the one time I did get tipped though I was a casheer at the time im just glad I had been told about what happens if we accept tips sometime after I had accepted one rather than just dished out the punishment which is being fired or suspended untill further notice lol at the time i thought my boss was being nice and had caught this on cam and was giving a warning to me while explaining this to a small group of employees in a casual way now I see it was just random as my boss dosent really watch the cams mostly just blanks out while pretending to watch carefully XD though he is a great/nice guy saved my ass a few times even
That's what studies show about good waitstaff as well, not for the money in the moment while serving tables. I've been long on both sides and it feels the same while I do it. But on the other hand I'm a very good waiter and a very good cook and while the best, fastest cooks usually make say 10% more than other cooks, as a waiter you can make double the tips by being skillful and able to handle larger sections, turn tables quicker, etc. That was gratifying and I was the only one tipping cooks (part of why I could move faster as they cooperated with me perfectly and gave my orders precedence). Still, knowing the realities for so many others in the business I am willing to forgo the extra pay from tips because I have seen so many bad situations. At one place the women knew that unbuttoning an extra shirt button would raise their tips and if short toward the end of the month and rent due they would compromise their principles. That's in fancy places. In diners, etc, they have to take lots of abuse, unwanted sexual crap, and management that only plays the customer is right game.
Thats discrimination
@@ananda5502 yes, to say the least. That's the point of moving away from the system of wages based on tipping, because we can't handle it and reward sexual ego stroking more than table service. Why is that? Another discussion of our messed up system, about personal repression and lack of cultural evolution.
*Hires Hitman*
*Pays minimum wage*
*Expects the victim to cover the rest of the salary via tips*
Don't go out to eat. Food cost margins at restaurants are slim. Sure they could pay their waitresses or waiters more but you would still pay. They are just gonna hike food costs. The fact that you want to be waited on hand a foot but not tip is cheat and selfish. Do really think a someone getting 15 dollars an hour only is gonna give you consistent effort. A some maybe. Tipping helps to keep them attentive as well.
Ultimately, customers pay for everything in any businesses venture. It's where the money comes from.
E.g. If you hire 1 server, you can't just decide to pay him 1 million a month. That money has to come from somewhere...it'll come from the customer.
There's two ways it'll come from the customer. Either the food worth $50 is priced at $999 950, or a tip of $999 950 needs to be given.
Either way, the customer is the only source of income for every single business that has ever existed since the begining of time.
It's not exactly rocketscience.
If you remove the customers, then there is no pay for anyone...becauae all pay ultimately comes out the pocket of customers.
Everything you have ever bought, indirectly helped compensate workers.
@@totalsavagepunk1240 I tip at restaurants because I'm "supposed" to because the cheap owners refuse to pay their staff a reasonable wage. What's the difference in paying more for the meal and tipping, which means paying more for the meal? I've never tipped a cashier at a grocery store. Why should restaurant staff be any different?
I'm so glad I'm not living in a country with this custom. We do sometimes say "keep the change" but only as a gratitude for a remarkable service, not as a mandatory thing.
Just like most conturies of Europe.
Pretty much all of europe
I live in the Washington DC area and my father is German. I have worked as a cook, waiter, bartender bouncer, and more in both Germany and the US. I know that many co-workers in the US have said that Germans are the worst tippers. I explain that they don't always know that they should tip. I know that the staff in Georgetown at many bars and restaurants intentionally provide poor service during the meals of Germans prior to presenting the bill because they already have an attitude towards them for not always tipping well. Therefore it causes problems as it is not like the Germans never tip. on some occasions they over-tip. It is a thing causing problems IMO. I wish tipping was banned as it causes problems, tension, and usually, the people who lose out are both the customer and the servers lose out since the awkwardness and math involved make life far more complicated. It should be the same non-tipping rule worldwide to stop these problems. It would improve life IMO.
Im american your not obligated to tip but remembrr most servers make$ $2.13 a hour si they live off tips
@@ChanaElisheva What in the hell are you talking about?? Maybe non Americans feel this pressure because they are not used to it... I'm a server, here in the USA, have been for years. Most Americans understand that servers don't make shit per hour and are more than happy to tip!
And seriously what a pompous and insensitive thing to say! That we OUGHT to be pressuring our employers? Is that what you did since your so quick to shame someone for following the rules and laws? Right, so you go ahead and try and see what happens. You be fired immediately! It's the waiters fault that there is "pressure" to tip....? Wow! So all the servers in all of America need to rise up right? Do you realize how utterly unrealistic and dumb that sounds?? The tipping laws have nothing to do with waiters and everything to do with politicians and I don't see a server revolution happening anytime soon. So until that happens do us a favor if your in America and tip your wait staff!
Tipping should be voluntary and not seen as a social obligation.
Hey, Joshua Chandra, I heard a different history of tipping. Back when each upper class Brit had a staff: butler, cook, gardener, upstairs maid, downstairs maid, footman and carriage driver other noblemen staying overnight would leave a gratuity for personal service by someone else's staff. A social obligation.
This altered to personal service by someone else's employees. The employees of the beauty parlor or barber or restaurant are tipped, but not the owner doing exactly the same thing.
The middle class, wanting to be like the upper class adopted it too.
And so it goes.
Joshua Chandra I'm a waitress. I only make $2.14 an hour. That's why tipping is a thing because I don't make anything otherwise.
SFX Gore and More In the US? Where are you getting paid that much at? That is a new type of minimum wage. That’s not the customers problem, that’s the problem of your employers.
@@victoriawhite317 That can't be in the US.. that or you work for someone under the table.
@@rsloveeeee Under federal law, employers can take a tip credit by paying tipped workers, such as servers and bartenders, as low as $2.13 an hour if those workers earn at least the standard minimum wage of $7.25 an hour once their tips are added in.
I live in France and tipping is mostly done as a reward for good service to the chef, waiters, and so on. Not as a social requirement or unspoken rule.
oddly enough never actually tipped a chef... you dont really get to see them and there was probably 5 of them who prepared your meal although i imagine they make more than the servers so i dont think there too fussed ...i hope
i may have to buy a round of drinks for the kitchen next time i get a nice steak
@@Sarge92 This is true, but I find it unfair that only the waiters and waitresses get a bonus when all they do, really, is take your order, serve the food, and smile. The chef has the most important role in a restaurant...
Same in Poland. Tips are just a token of gratitude for outstanding service.
Same in spain
I'm American and it's basically the same. We tip based on the service we recieve
As an Australian, I've always found America's tipping culture baffling and downright insane. It's exactly like the video said - why should the customer be responsible to pay the wait staffs' wages? Like he said, it should be the employer's responsibility. Tipping should be for service that goes above and beyond and not a social obligation.
Cook at home dont go out n eat
@@eugenesanchez5114 shut up American, you're the odd one out
Nobody said it was an obligation. Waitresses make minimum wage here. I can’t agree with one damn thing about this video nor your statements. It’s a cultural different, and why should we oblige to yours? Each to its own.
@@vivienneduong6541 nobody said you had too just stay home and cook.You won't have too that's plain and simple common sense.
I agree Eva. I have worked as a bartender in both Australia and the UK. Any tip I received was for my performance in my role. When I worked in an establishment with a kitchen, tips were shared with kitchen, serving and bar staff. Tips should be there to encourage you to do a better job not pay for your job. One downfall not mentioned in the video is that some people tip barstaff and expect better pours of highshelf spirits or preferential service. I have even had customers ask for their tip to be returned because they gave more than they sensibly should have, I complied with the request. At the end of the day, I earned a decent wage tending bar and any tips I gained were a welcome bonus and not a right.
When you said the part about cooks not getting the recognition they deserve i felt that lol. I make $9.00 an hour and i'm a cook. There was a server that walked out tonight with $300 in tips. After me working 8 hours i made $72 before taxes and she made that much (not including her $4.50 an hour wage) even though she worked 2 hours less than me. Makes sense she makes a shitload more than me for the food i cook right?
zio420 that's certainly a bold claim, why is he a weak idiot?
Yes, I'm a server and I ask cooks all the time why they don't serve and they all promptly say that they don't want to deal with people.. Remember we make $2.23 and hour and we DO want to deal with people.
When did people stop tipping cooks for an excellent meal? My first 'time clock' job was at an eating establishment. The waitresses got the majority of the tips but many times the cook got tips and occasionally the bussers would get tips too. If someone does a good job but is in a low paying job, you tip them. No tipping is just Communistic.
*equality*
I feel you bro it isn't right.
So this is almost quite literally a "damned if you do, dammed if you don't" type of situation.
Then I'd rather be damned while keeping my money
@@thao0226 Same.
Whatever happened to making someone's day?
@@amandamcnamara1617 When I need to be able to feed myself as well.
@channel break ......no.
Japan has it right, giving money is a charity.
I didn't sign a contract, I didn't hire the waiter, and I can't fire them.
The restaurant should be liable for hiring and paying good workers.
Agreed.
And many people have a cheap attitude. They want good service, not to tip, and to be able to use groupon at the same time. Restaurant business can be tough. You want better wages for servers, but will you pay more for a meal?
@@kickinrocks6055 Isn't tipping just showing gratitude? Aren't servers hired to provide service? Its not a cheap attitude as it is not wasting money. I'm not going for a resturaunt for food, then giving extra money to people for doing the job they were hired to do. Tip as much as you would like, thats you, but personally perfer to not throw away money like that.
Name of the last beat 19:58 ?
You are sitting down while a waitress or waiter serves you're every need. Tip the person or don't eat out
Been working in the restaurant industry for about 8-9 years in America, as a cook. I do appreciate you bringing up the disparity in wages between cooks/chefs and waiters its actually such a frustrating thing being in this industry. I can work for 8-10 hours and make about 80 dollars in some jobs after tax. Meanwhile a brand new waitress with no experience ive seen walk out with almost 400 dollars cash. Happens a lot and we never see an ounce of that money. I get that some people can be frustrating to wait on but for the most part people are very agreeable and easy to talk to. Walk back and forth with food and drinks with a smile - $400 dollars. Juggle 10 dishes at the same time in a 100 degree kitchen after prepping all day - Mehhhh 10-15 bucks an hour.
Well cooks don't get the same verbal abuse or physically grabbed by customers. The sexual abuse on the server side is common.
@@heraprincelol waiter spotted 😂,
I talked to an ex chef about this very subject. He told me that in recent times most restaurants will put all the tips in a pot and split the tip earnings evenly throughout all the employees, but its not mandatory with all restaurants.
Here's a 'tip'...become a server if you want more money. Why is this so hard?
I use to share my tips with the cooks. 🤷♀️
I know how to… grease the wheel to make everything run smoothly
I'm Portuguese and tipping is not a thing here. When I first heard of it my thought was: "so it's the costumers duty to pay the employee? I thought the person who employ you was supposed to pay you. Who came up with this nonsense idea some deadbeat employer shrugging of his responsibilities?"
South African here, and I agree. We don't really do that here, it's not the customer's duty to pay the employees of a restaurant.
Catarina here hit the nail on the head with a sledgehammer xD
EXACTLY!!!
I'm Malaysian, its all the same
At the restaurant I work at or previously worked at starting wage for a cook is $11 an hour the servers or waitresses and waiters receive $3 an hour plus tips and it actually averages out over a year
A silly thing about tipping is that it is based on a percentage of the cost of the food. As if the waiter worked harder to bring a $25 steak to the table than a $7 burger.
It's more to reflect the amount of people at the table/numbers of items they need to deliver.
Agree. I hate when I’m at a more expensive restaurant where a server will make $10 for bringing out our food, whereas a diner waitress who is working twice as hard would likely be tipped $3-4 just because the food is cheaper.
Well actually maybe the waiter did work harder if you came in for a $7 burger but he upsold you to a $25 dollar steak. Just saying
SCREAMIN' LORD BYRON he worked harder for the restaurant not me. The restaurant should tip him for convincing me to buy something more expensive.
So if I sell tires and I am compensated based on commissions should I be payed if I sell nothing?
It’s a simple concept.
They don’t just bring you food. They are Independent sales people.
Many many times the wait staff have influenced my dinner decisions.
They do impact how much I spend but not always.
This video totally ignores the facts
Most people who visit the USA from the EU were tipping isn’t a thing Really
Notice how much better the service is here in USA.
One of the fears of going to america, that just sounds like extra anxiety fuel
"Did I tip enough?"
"Should I tip?"
"Fuck, I forgot to tip"
" *When* do I tip?"
20% is a good baseline. More for exceptional service, less or none for crap service. Bear in mind that if the restaurants had to pay their staff their full living wage, the food would be more expensive. They still have to make a profit. With tips, the difference is that you have some control over what the service costs you, and you can pay based on your own judgment of its quality.
@@joesterling4299 If I have to pay 50 cents more a burger so the game making it doesn't need to work 2 jobs just to make rent, why the fuck not?
@@01_mikoru93 But it wouldn't. Competent staff would still make about the same money at best. The only difference with a service charge replacing gratuities is that the staff would no longer have an incentive to provide good or pleasant service.
@@joesterling4299 or just 0%
@@joesterling4299 I live in Europe and never tiped, when I go to the usa I’Il probably totally forget it and get an angry look from a random waiter/waitress without even realising why i get that look... I don’t want to deal with having to pay 2 times, once for food, once for the waiter/waitress, idc about there service, i care about the food and drinks
It’s insane that a minimum wage for tipping actually exist. Just insane…
It's called greed and it is even more insane that some people believe YOU are responsible for ensuring the server can pay their bills.
It'd be insane to tip street sweepers, refuse collectors or go into restaurant's kitchen and tip the actual hardworking, underpaid chefs that cook the meal you came for in the first place. Just insane...
@@justinoo777cheap person here.
Tipping should be abolished and pay the wait staff an actual living wage. Plus tip theft by the owners is rampant.
There is that. And By other waitresses.
Nah, that would result in a severe drop in pay for most service industry workers.
No one's gonna volunteer to clean up after your ass for the same money they can make working for Walmart or Amazon.
@@toddfluhr4655 that doesnt make any sense what's so ever 7 dollars is over 2 dollars
@@someguynamedsteve203 it makes sense because with tips the average tipped employees makes over $20/hr.
Take away the tips, every decent server and bartender walks.
@@toddfluhr4655 and if that doesn't happen. What then?
It's still a tipped position there just gonna go hungry
I'm glad I don't live in a place where tipping culture is a thing. Imagine your employer actually paying your wages. Crazy, isn't it?
I get just over minimum wage. I make tips on top of that. I only make $30,000 a year. I went to school to do my job. In the USA we can't make enough unless we wither get tips, or your bill is way higher
@@Atticblood What does "enough" mean to you? If you apply for a job that pays minimum wage, do you expect to get paid more than minimum wage?
@@eneco3965 if I went to college yes. $30,000 is not shit when you have adult bills, kids, gas, and such.
@@Atticblood Some would ask why you have kids if you can't afford to pay your bills, gas and such.
I'm glad I don't live in a land of self-superior dipshits who are so sure of themselves they tell the rest of the world how to live and react with hate to any societal difference.
I'm talking about western Europe, of course.
Here in italy tipping is optional. It's like a direct compliment to the servers themself rather than the whole company.
Some servers are grumpy, other ones are just as cold as robots, and them there are the very friendly ones that threat you like an old pal even if it's their first time they see you. It's usually the latest one that gets tipped. And it usually happens behind their back because getting tipped in persons is really awkward for both side.
Unfortunately this allows servers to steal tips that were not meant for them. And they get caught only if the same costumer meets the same server and the tip is mentioned.
It happened once at my workplace and the thief got fired.
Same as the UK
I live in England and it's scary how accurate this is.
I’ve had this exact conversation with friends only to get the eye roll. Tipping sucks so I rarely go out to eat because it’s offensive that I not only have to pay for my meal but also for the employee as well while the restaurant laugh its ass off.
This is the way , simply don’t go . You don’t enjoy the experience , other people do. Period . the end.
I understand tipping Is stupid but that doesn't change the fact that they are still getting paid a lot less then they should be. You not tipping doesn't do anything except make the wait staff hate you and not want you back there. That's their living, again, Ik it's stupid but that's how it is unless laws get changed. Food for thought.
@@inpiecesa1956 maybe read their comment again?
@@greenyoshi119 Maybe read mine again. I'm not starting anything just giving some thought on the situation.
@@inpiecesa1956 tipping allows mega corporations to continue underpaying workers
When I was working for the large pizza delivery franchise, I found that rich people, with gates more expensive than my car, didn't tip and even wanted their penny change back too. But it was the poorer people that tipped. I would tip as the wages are crap.
How do ypu think they got rich in the first place
This is still very true. I’m a general manager of one of the big 3 pizza places and the rich ppl still don’t tip or tip horribly.
Lol...i noticed that too.
I had the opposite experience personally.
*Rough town*: more crime and drugs, definitely less wealthy. Would get stiffed on deliveries constantly, paid in bags of coins that came short, biggest tipper was a legendary $20 every few months outside the allowed area but the manager let us take it anyways (cool👍) .
*Woodsy/Suburb Area*: ordered only10 minutes down the road, apologizes for the long drive & tips generously. Just saw a $40 tip today 16 mile round trip + minimum wage :p Crazy people but gotta love em.
It’s probably due to experience in the service industry that allows an understanding of how to actually tip.
We don't tip in Australia but we have really good wages and pay awards for overtime, public holidays and weekends. Some Americans are on very low wages and rely on tips to get by.
Please watch the entire video.
charlie saville sorry but I got extremely bored after 15:00 😆😆
charlie saville so I watched the rest and he gave a piss poor excuse as to why you shouldn't, then says in some cases you should, then asks for Patreon dollars 😆😆 this channel used to be good.
And you used to be 14, now you're 16. Case closed, move on.
The Gunman wish the U.S. could adapt progressive wages. Instead we have a 7.25 and hour federal minimum wage. That’s a little over 14k a year ( 13k with taxes taken out)
*Promotes patreon at the end*:
Me: “Hold on this whole operation was your idea*
You have a point, but I don't think it's the same.
You see UA-cam will pay less than a penny per view so instead of 70 percent of his pay being through tipping it's 99% :D
Totally. How hypocritical. Don’t ask for people to support you on patreon if you don’t want tips. Why should anyone pay to listen to your stupid opinion. We all can listen to those for free.
@Jason Strom So more like 100%?
Yall need to chill the fuck out, it's a damn joke
we confuse our local eatery with the strip club lol that just made my day
I await narrative videos.
So don't tip in strip clubs also?
When the waitress wear half nothing it's like a strip club
In the UK it is illegal to include tips and overtime in the National Minimum Wage.
Unfortunately though, tips are a taxable income. Which is kind of ironic. They can't be used as wages because there's no guarantee you get them, but the Government are allowed to tax you on it? A tip is nothing more than like giving a friend a fiver or something, the Government shouldn't then be allowed to take that fiver and give £3.50 back because "income tax".
Tips are often cash and I doubt anyone monitors this, however if deemed free from tax there'd be loop holes that the rich could exploit and money laundering becomes easy 'just the tip'
I simply don’t go out to eat anymore. By the time you add tip and tax it adds 30% to your bill. I like the European system. Price includes tax and tips not expected. Round up tipping is fine
,...and income taxes, federal + SS+ medicare+ state...often also add up to 30% or more. Does that mean you stop working too? If you want to save money, then sure, don't eat out. But you can also do what the rest of us do, and just multiply the price on the menu by 1.3 to figure out what eating out really costs.
@Jyoeru Zaberu if in the end your going to pay the same price why bother?
Jyoeru Zaberu
That burger better be made out of gold.
@Jyoeru Zaberu no one pays 30 bucks for burger in Europe,from 5 to 10£ everything included!
@Jyoeru Zaberu This is one of the reason why other system are better because everything you pay for is directly shown witch then prevent this kind of "if it's not on the bill then i don't have to pay for it" mentality.
And yeah in the end if you have the chose between paying 30$ straight or 15$ and have 15$ of tips it's the same price. It's basically the whole 15$+shipping vs 30+no shipping thing.
Hitman: That’s 400,000 dollars for the target.
Me: slips him an extra 20 dollars on top of the 400,000
Hitman: [Crying] Thank you.
Basically lol
UniverseNerd It’s a joke
@@leboiofbois1005 yeah, i realize, that's probably why i deleted it
UniverseNerd it’s a f-ing joke
@@maxpayne4107 why are you mad at me, you didn't even see my original comment, i didn't get the joke yet, until i saw the hitman part of the video
Having worked tipped positions & hourly positions - I can make WAY more money on a tip based pay scale. Tip based pay tends to reward hard work, competency & consistency. I've also known several people with degrees who waited tables or tended bar because they could make more than they did in their chosen profession.
That being said, the tipping system IS ridiculous when examined.
Tip based pay dont reward hard work. U just get paid for how well u can guilt trip a customer for not tipping. And I understand why u don't want tipping to go away coz u would fleece the customer of their money so that u get more un-taxed money. After all, tipping started as a form of bribery.
@@adityaneer i hate taxes, you cia glow in the dark black fellow
Couldn't agree more. Where I come from, you can earn a way better income from a tipped job. Also, I haven't been to the States, so I can't compare prices, but I'd say the customer still pays for the waiter's wages. Remember, everybody's wages are included in the price of the food and drinks. You just won't get to choose how much goes directly to the one serving you.
Indeed. Recently, I demoted myself from mgt. to server because I was making approx. $6/hr. less as a mgr. than I am now making being a server.
People make more money off tips where I live as well...but that's because people don't pay taxes for their tips.
Once covid hit, many restaurants closed down and many service workers lost their jobs and had to go on unemployment.
The amount they got is based on how much their actual salary was, not how much they got under the table.
This also becomes a problem when taking out a bank loan or during retirement. (either due to old age or sickness)
Customers often hate this system as we are already paying extra for the food in a restaurant, or even more if we order in, as there is also a minimum order and delivery fee and we are also expected to tip our waiter a decent ammount, just for doing their jobs.
So its bad for the employee, its bad for the customer, so who does this system help?
The owner.
Owners don't need to pay a decent salary, because "you will get more money out of tips". Customers are essentially paying the staff, while also paying premium prices for the food.
Started out as a bribe for expedited service, now makes up for sub poverty wages.
As well as low paid workers in places like Mc Donald’s etc being expected to graft for tips they are also expected to claim tax benefits for receiving less than a living wage. Last year McDonald's made a profit of 37 billion dollars. Why are these companies allowed to screw the taxpayers over rather than pay a decent wage?It may not be brain surgery but it still must be tiring and boring and fulfilling a service.
Right? How can anyone live on $28 dollars per hour!?
Sub poverty wages ? Lmao tell that to homeless people who dont have jobs
@@wizkid2000 Yeah what they showed at 14:58 utterly undermined the video's argument.
@@lucilledelorme What McDonald's have you been to where tips are acceptable?
Tipping is also an insult in Iceland
I don't normally tip in the Iceland shop
That's because Iceland knows how to guarantee the dignity of its citizens. It doesn't leave them to the mercy of tipping. Great country and great people.
Idk I dont dare step in that chavvy supermarket
And China to the waiters/waitress it is demeaning to the staff who think it's the wage of a 'bar girl.'
Japan also has a stigma against tipping, good service is expected, but some places like a hotel or bar may add a gratuity fee to the bill.
I wouldn't want the majority of my wages determined by the generosity of humanity.
Well then its a gokd thing most people do it because they feel morally obligated to because of your rediculously low pay.
People are selfish shit. They sooner watch you drown than throw you a rope. Humans are parasites
I prefer it, I can't hardly find a job that pays me half of what I make as a server.
@@deadinside8542 Yeah,and not just to other humans,but also the world,aka planet earth.And later on,the moon,mars...
Exactly! Have you MET people?
At the diner I worked at, we split the tip equally between ALL employees. Every time an employee(s) began or ended their shift, the tips were split.
It's not the customers responsibility to provide for the waitress, thats the employers job.
Id much rather pay a bit more for a meal than having to "pay" 2 times. Inconvenient useless habit that should die out.
Thays already how it works. Tipping isnt mandatory and its only 10-15% on top. Unless you eat out often and with parties of a few people each time its really not that big a proce to pay. While I agree its an awful and archiac system, I am more than happy to pay into it because at the end of the day people have bills to pay. If you dont like it dont eat at restaurants. Go to McDonald's or something, or better yet buy ingredients and learn to cook at home for 10x less.
@@GarlicGrinder9no - if you don't like it, just don't tip. Else this custom will stay forever. If you tip you encourage the low wages of staff in the back (who worked their ass off to get there - in contrary to the servers).
RCRDC X why can't people understand this. Tipping is dumb af.
Including tips as someone's salary is just an excuse to pay them less
@@GarlicGrinder9 20% is customary.
As a former waiter and bartender, I completely agree that it’s unfair that restaurant owners pay their employees less than minimal wage. The restaurant industry is full of unfair practices from lacks of breaks to lack of leave (a lot of restaurants pay employees under the table to avoid taxes also workers rights)....I am so happy to be out....
server often make more than the restaurants management team. your wrong, and it's all in the tips/
circusboy90210 Where is your credibility to challenge a former service worker?
True! I live in Florida and a huge amount of restaurant will ONLY pay under the table. I've worked at four restaurants that tried me with that under the table crap and quit all of them in less than a week. Where have all the real jobs gone?
Elvis was just being kind to his limo driver because he had the money and he was a kind man. That was all there was to it.
Elvis was not a kind man
Thanks Simon.
@@Aashishkebab one of Elvis's later drummers told me that people say what they want about Elvis but he really was a kind man. His name is Larry London and his story about Elvis was inspirational.
But I don't mean to argue with you there are different perceptions.
Always someone complaining, nothing to worry!
I agree and all but what's the man gonna do with a limo?😂 I wouldn't know what the hell to do with it.
There was a waitress at one of the places I worked that made sometimes $800-$1k on a double shift. And we weren't even that fancy of a restaurant. Probably about 15 to $30 a plate. But we had a massive bar with hundreds of beers and excellent horderves.
Granted she made that kind of cash on game days for the football team of a college renowned for it's football. And we were right outside the gates of the college. So we would be absolutely slammed from 10:00 a.m. to about 12:00 a.m.
It didn't hurt that she looked like she should be carved into the front of a ship (I told her that) and she could remember everything everyone ordered at a table of eight or less.
Ahhh Tiffany - you gorgeous and brilliant creature... I hope life has treated you well.
You're telling me you were there from 10 in the morning to 12 midnight? That's crazy.
Golden gophers suck. Jk. Don't Care pac12
The money is due to long hours , backbreaking work, and her youthful good looks ? Yeah, that's a lifetime plan.
This absurd ..your in the crazy house now
Lol it was only based of her appearance. When I’m drunk with my friends I also tip pretty girls well
Correct me if I'm wrong but.
UA-cam = Tight-fisted company not distributing pay.
Viewers = Tippers via Patrio donations.
Is that right?
Martin Boylan get back on line son or you'll be demonitized!
Fucking smart as hell, lets go on a strike against youtube
Yep, I'm putting Adblocker back on, if tipping's not a good idea.
UA-cam is a platform. They don't employ people that post on UA-cam(most of them anyways). People that post on UA-cam are their own business that make money through advertisers or direct contributions. A good analogy at face value but disingenuous.
UA-cams system is far from perfect but I can't think of anything where people from around the world can come together and have these types of topics discussed at length. Videos like this from talented youtube's are so important and I can't get enough of this type of thing.
In Australia you don’t tip
You just let them keep the change
Lucky you
Keep a 1¢ change
That's what I usually do
Because we're on a decent award wage.
I use credit card
Let get to the real issue and just get workers to pay better wages
The real issue is getting the government and corporations separate. The corporations have WAY too much political power so this is why all this is allowed. We are getting screwed over because of corrupt government whose pockets get lined by corporations and their corrupt lobbying.
You want workers to pay better wages? Lol. Anyway.
You're a fucking commie, and I'm Eastern European. You don't have the fucking right to tell anyone how much they should pay someone else. That makes my blood boil. If you don't like the money don't do that job, simple as that. You need to watch his video about stupid people. That's you.
Or just establish communism
@@fuckjewtube69 We fought to use that word. You don't get to use it
How about only going to those maverick restaurants who say "don't tip, we pay our employees well."
Or socialism, and then you can spend your guaranteed annual income any way you want, earned from your country's resources and services which the elite mistakenly believe is theirs.
You can keep the communism.
Wow!!! I've always thought, deep in my mind, that serving is actually slavery. And now this video, knowing the story for the first time in my life, confirms my thinking. You're basically working for free (they made it legal by paying servers $3 an hour), and you get paid by the customer. Why can't the restaurant owner pay their employees? Why do I have to pay them for the owner? Wtf?
Exactly!
Yes. It is sad.
I prefer dealing with people who've been FUCKED before
Tipped minimum wage is EXACTLY why I keep tipping in the US. My first time there in '99, I was at a diner with 5 friends, and all the servers were Barbie dolls with fake smiles who steered clear of us. Maybe because we were a group, maybe because we were all big, bearded men, speaking a harsh, guttural language (Dutch). But this one lady was like 40-something, and gave us the best service I we ever had. Turned out she was a single mom with 2 boys in High school and a daughter in college. So we just pooled ALL of our money on the table (Maybe $900, IDK) for school supplies. We had planned to go out later, but just stayed in the hotel and watched reruns on TV instead...
That was incredibly nice of you! From the sound of it, she seems like the kind of person that would share the wealth as well.
@@TheCalmPsycho It was a group decision. We figured that if that daughter could make it through college, she could get a good career, and not have to bust her ass for peanuts like her poor mum.
Good guys
Wow. Thanks man that's a lot of money for a tip
And the tipped minimum wage exists BECAUSE people like you keep tipping
I remember when tip jars started showing up at Burger King counters. Yikes.
Ok that's too much they dont do crap but they're exact job😂
tipping in burger king not in this life time
What's a matter? You don't like tipping some runny nosed teenaged goth freak for taking your order and then serving you all without actually doing much of anything but getting your order wrong? Fucking prima donna right here, lol!
I've never,ever tipped at mcd or bk.
I get tipped all the time I’m at the first window where everyone pays most of the time and I get on average about $7 a day in tips I know it’s not much but for a McDonald’s employee that’s something... and on Christmas this guy paid with a $100 bill and tipped me $40 for working on Christmas
I don't understand why people keep missing the point. Tips should be something VOLUNTARY, to compensate for an extra good service, not a percentage of the bill you feel compelled to add if you don't want to be frown upon. The problem is waiters and waitresses for some reason are paid below the minimum wage, which makes no sense to me. If they were paid a reasonable salary they wouldn't NEED tips, they could earned some extra for extra effort if the client feels like it. Now you get it?
The employers should pay the bill. It's that simple. It's really disgusting that this law exists. If I tip I want it to be an extra on top of what they earn- NOT a necessity.
charlie saville exactly! that is how it should be. this current situation is disgusting
sergio fcastillo yes, but not tipping is NOT how you fix it. you hurt the server not the restaurant. want a change? lobby for law changes in server wages.
It is ALREADY voluntary you idiot. No one has to tip. Tipping is already optional.
Brand284848 is the insult necessary? Seriously, do you think that is a way to adress an stranger? Lame.
"To insure promptitude"...this reminds me of the people that pay amusement parks extra to cut in line..basically paying to cut in line because they're better than everyone else (in their own mind, at least)
Tf? Why not pay extra for fast pass tickets if you have the money? How does that make someone stuck up?
Tep?
I enjoyed not tipping in Japan. The maids even waived my entry fee for posting a picture of cake on Twitter.
the irony of the japanese system is I WANT TO TIP THEM SO BAD they give fucking phenominal service and im just like please let me show you how great full i am
@@Sarge92 You're just not used to living in japan, that's why. If you are used to it then it's the standard that you expect. Japanese customers can be really horrible and petty over the smallest things, then there is a one hour meeting over time without pay just because one customer complained. There is a lot of consequence for staff.
When I was still not born, my mom had to take a part time job while in highschool as waitress, she got paid only 200 ARS (2 dollars), and she could only get money from the tips, which would usually be like 10 ARS, it wasn't even the minimum wage, instead way lower than that, yet still the restaurant stays like that up until the present because "tips should be enough", 2 of the workers tried to sue them but since the restaurant was friends with the mayor even after closing down the restaurant, it opened again.
Interesting to hear.
ARS is which countries currency?
argentine pesos. What GoK said is true, the salaries of waiters suck here and many owners take advantage of tips to just pay less that they should
All the dislikes are from people who live on tips
True
@marcus24000 Its literally slavery just with extra benefits and you actually get to go home at the end of the day.
And all the likes are people who have never worked in the tipping industry in their life. So what’s your point?
Yeah, be mad at the symptom instead of doing something about the problem.
And they miss the point. Their boss is the ass, not the customer.
So very right on, Thoughty2!!! I feel totally as you do, here in the US is a horrible practice and then people wonder why no one wants to work in the restaurant industry. Restaurant owners in general (not all) are a bunch of bunch of cheapskates who want to be make a handsome profit on the backs of their poor (literally) workers. Let's abolish tipping!!!!
Fuck you. You must not work for tips
This is so fascinating. Having grown up in Wisconsin (USA) with a minimum wage of $2.33 for tipped employees, I never thought about any of this. That said, not tipping your server when you know they’re making $2/hour is a pretty cold thing to do just out of principal. Definitely a change that needs to happen from a governmental level to make employers just pay what employees deserve and copy Japan’s system.
I thought this was about cow tipping.
Dude. Im not tipping you unless you go out of your way for some reason. Even then. I dont want you to. Just walk to the kitchen and get my food its not that hard. Ill do it myself. I dont even need you to bring me my food. Ill tip the chef if the food is in my opinion good.
Here in Canada waiters/waitresses now get $15 an hour. And prices on the menu have gone up because owners now pay waiters more. But they still expect the tip. Actually they expect 15% now. And if you walk into some restaurants as a group of 6+, they will add 18% tip to your bill automatically !
@@dewmontain123 So in an industry where people deal with some of the worst of humanity and don't make a living wage, you think being a cheapskate helps the situation?
If they don't get tips, they get full minimum wage. Tipping is literally theft committed by businesses.
I've been a server. I've been a cook. I've been a dish washer. I made 3x as much money while only making $4/hr as a server, compared to as a cook/dish washer at minimum wage.
then if you want to get tips you know should be a server, then it will be down to your personality and looks as well as your ability and effort
Thank you for your honesty.
Shut your fat ass up
No tip for you fat ass
Its the same in the IT-Industry a Server can make more money that a clientPC ;D
"America leaves an astonishing 40 billions in tips"
Me: Ohh that's all because of Mr Beast
Haha
@Eric Flaquer ohh that's a lot xD
@Kyle O'Connor What does the Freemason thing have anyting to do with this issue?
@Eric Flaquer You need to remove huge donations made by politicians / big companies to further their own career + laundry money. The USA is well know for for big n°1 in this field. No hate just pointing this out.
@Eric Flaquer Yes, I'd remove it from other countries too, this is not charity but corruption, the large majority of funds don't go to people in need but the people at the top of said corrupt organization.I forgot to add rich people use charities to dodge taxes too and sometimes fund violent/disrupting groups to divide or hurt people (ex : Wall Street paying off SJWs to divide people while pretending to be good).
US people's charity comes from expandable wealth, the more you have the more likely you are to give (for instance, I got some work recently and I immediatlely gave back, it's a universal trait).
Again, I'm not throwing shade on the average Joe but the number you gave doesn't take into account the many variables I mentioned. Also, the actual amount spent by the richest is peanuts compared to benefit they'll make. Most of them are not doing from the goodness of their heart.
Just moved from the US to Italy. It’s so liberating to not stress tipping as it’s already integrated into the bill.
Always great and informative videos found here. Too bad learning in school wasn’t as enjoyable as this! Thanks for assisting with my continuing education!
I like to tip anyone who offers me a service which I enjoyed. But in america, (florida specifically) after a visit in a national park we had to pay off the little paddle boat we rented at the office. It was self service with touch screens, and you HAD to leave a tip you couldn't just pay the price. There were options leaving a tip between10%-50% of the cost of the rent, but no 0%. The whole experience was really bad and then you can't even pay without selecting a tip. That is just rude and disgusting. I want to decide if I want to leave a tip or not thank you.
Wtf what park? I live in Fl too
That.s the problem. You should tip ONLY if you want to.
twicepast7 I dont remember the name it was like 4 years ago but at some park of the everglades where you could paddle on your own trough the swamps. To rent it for an hour you paid like 40 bucks + the mandatory tip at the end.
If using a touchscreen, I assume you also used a card for payment. Call your card company, complain and shut that shit down. Problem solved for everyone else in the future as there is no way this can be allowed by the CC companies.
Ken Lee It is probably too late for that sadly. It was around 4 years ago and I dont have the energy to dig it up.
papa johns is sending out "how to tip" papers if you tip under $5 on a $27 order
The fucking audacity.
Fucking finally lol
@@psychopompous3207 maybe if they would pay their workers a liveable wage, tipping wouldnt matter
@@bradhuff5131Maybe that's on the business itself, not the consumer.
Just another reason to hate them
I now expect to hear about a sudden epidemic of patrons being slapped in the face with ripe salmons.
For delivery drivers, tipping is essential.
I am a chef and is tiresome how some waitress think the customers come to one place merely because of how "good service" they give, and I'm burning my hands back in the kitchen thinking, WHO THE F made the food that is being consumed? IF people come to a "restaurant" mostly because of how they are being treated then we are talking about another type of business, but for sure not food industry.
Restaurants are not always about the food, sometimes it is how it makes us feel.
Good food for me is highest priority and reason sometimes i tolerate horrible service, but not for everyone.
@@xaddrfehr4593 You said it yourself Food is the highest priority. I dont know what you are trying to argue here. Good food is at the number one of the reasons why people go to a restaurant. PERIOD. if you want to feel good and being caressed go to a spa or a massage place.
@@thivan233 For me it is, but for many people is not, that was my point.
Going to a restaurant is important part of many peoples social life and there are many factors that decide why people choose certain place: location, ambient, hospitality of the staff, friend influence etc..
That 'special' servers will always exist, so i understand your frustration. But in the end, the more motivated they are to give good service, the more business you have.
@@xaddrfehr4593 I think for the majority is about the food.
if is not, don´t go to a restaurant to not appreciate the work of the person making your food, choose another place, good service it is required across the board for good business, that doesn't mean that the secondary element of a restaurant experience is more important than the primary element, neither are more important so why pretend like customers come here because of my good service and not for the food.
I've even gone back to restaurants with dogshit service because the food's good. I've worked in a kitchen and it can be horrible but the free food whenever you want (when the manager ain't looking) is as good of a tip for me. Don't have to worry about lunch or dinner so that's a good 20-35 bucks saved right there. It's different for everyone obviously but me personally, never minded no tips, because all of us kitchen staff know how hot them plates can get when the servers come to pick em up😂😂
I miss how in your old videos you would finish by saying, "thanks for the view, subscribe for more, thoughty2. *wink*"
Sandip Biswas OMG SAME
Same
Same as well as the Thoughty2 intro
Albus Dumbledore hahahaha, love his accent
YEAH
I’ve seen so many people say “you should always tip regardless of service”. Hell no. Just no. Not happening. Instead of people being berated into tipping, why don’t the workers strike until they get better wages? Esp when pizza places charge a delivery fee, but it isn’t given to the driver. Why? Y’all don’t pay for their gas, insurance, or car payment. So, why should we have to tip twice? 🤔
As an employee of a top pizza chain, the delivery fee goes towards the insurance payment the owners have to pay. Also, this may vary between stores but the store I work for gives drivers $1.25 towards gas. Most times drivers take upwards of 30 deliveries, which is in most cases a full tank of gas. Per day mind you
If the service is bad,, obviously tip accordingly.
If it's late or takes to long it may be the kitchens fault. It may be that the restaurant is packed, and it may be that the hosting staff doesn't know how to time the seating properly.
Oh yeah,,if the food comes out crappy,, it's the kitchens fault. If it comes out wrong it may be the kitchen's fault, it may be the the waiter/waitress,, because they wrote it down wrong.
Them ppl making tips are too cheap and greedy to protest it why would they wanna get rid of tips when some ppl pull in 2 to 300 untaxed dollars a day?? Ontop of their paycheque. Key word is some thats why i refuse to tip ever anyways i only tip my bartender and my cabbie they get a toonie
@@reyolivo3835 must be an american thing they dont do that here in ontario lol u buy ur own gas cause u get tips
Tipping should be something out of kindness and from heart. Forcing is unnecessary and rude
I'd rather tip the chef than the middle man (server).
Where I work servers get 200$ dollars a week. The cooks 650$ a week. Soo yeah tip the ones who get paid more lol
A nice restaurant you took both the chef usually makes pretty good money but if your meals exceptional he deserves a tip your server however makes nearly nothing and relies solely on their efforts their kindness and the effectiveness that they do with their job which is actually kind of perfect if you think about it there income is directly related to if they actually do their job or not
@@JwilliamsAssociates but they get minimum wage if they do t make enough. Theres no skill in waiting tables. Why should you be givin more money but mcdonalds workers cant make 15?
@@augustsaliento599 there income is based on tips they in fact do not make minimum wage most of the time in most places and there is some skill behind it a lot of Personality lot of organizational skills a lot more skill than it takes to say do you want fries with that but again the employer is not paying that higher wage their earning it by tips which is not mandatory but it's customary in this country why can't a McDonald's worker make $30,000 a year are you f****** kidding me
The server usually shares every tip they make with the cooks, busses, bartenders ect. They know it's a team that gets the customers served.
This is why you go to Buffets. You serve yourself, and you don't have to talk much. That's my kind of restaurant.
The difference is the service, you are then only paying the fee for the food anf not the waiter, do note some restaurants have waiters for just the drinks too.
I can't pay for endless amounts of shit food. My brain won't let me.
Gotta love that dried out meat loaf at the GOLDEN CORAL
Jessi Face buffet is slops for poor peeps
Jessi Face until the man who pissed and didn’t wash his hands touched the serving spoon at the salad bar
I've lived in Korea where there is no tipping and it is a far superior system:
1. Tipping means that wait staff are rewarded (or denied rewards) based on things they have no control over. For example, if the kitchen is backed up and the food is late it is the wait staff that takes the blame. If the owner decides to cut corners by buying lower quality food, it is the wait staff that gets shafted by no tips.
2. It is the role of management to reward superior performance and punish those who perform poorly. Passing it off to the customer is just cowardly.
3. It destroys any sense of professionalism that staff may have. They feel they must put up with any degrading comment or question from a rude customer because the all important tip depends on it.
4. Minimum wage for wait staff is well below the wage for other workers. So establishments keep their menu prices artifically low but you end up paying anyway with the tips. It is a hidden cost to any meal and cheats the staff out of basic living wage.
Just a few observations.
passing it off to the customer is just cowardly.
this I do agree with.
John - B
Great observations, and I see the same things in France! Waiters go to school there and have a salary. It’s a respectable occupation and they’re very good. They tend to not screw up orders and have their timing on point... on the other hand they can be rude and arrogant 😓 depends how touristy the area is 😂
More downsides to the American system include:
You can be fired at any time and for any reason.
You can lose your job over small mistakes.
If there are no customers you make no money.
No salary (2.13 an hour, which covers ur taxes, if your lucky.. bc sometimes u owe taxes still)
Sometimes having to work for free (delay clocking in to avoid overtime so u can work an extra shift per week)
No health insurance
No benefits
Destroying your feet and back from being forced to wear certain shoes (like chucks) on hard floors and having to bend and lift constantly.
But a couple nice things about waiting tables in America is you can work your way up to making six figures. You can obtain high high levels of professionalism in the right establishment.
For example: At Bern’s Steakhouse in Tampa, FL, it takes 7 YEARS to become a captain (lead server). 2 years in the kitchen, 1.5 as a food runner, 3 years as a back wait and the whole time you’re constantly being evaluated and having to take intense and lengthy written and oral exams. In the end tho, the captains make well into the six figures. And guess what.. executive chefs make bank too... often getting a cut of the restaurants profits.
Point is... these kind of arguments, for me, alway seem boil down to the same basic point. A point that is, i believe, one of the core principles of American culture. You GET what you PAY for.
A line cook or prep cook doesn’t offer a lot a value to an owner. It’s an entry level position that can be filled easily with a recent culinary school grad that’s dying to find a job. A waiter however, on their first night, is making the owner money. That’s also an easy position to fill. A monkey could do it right.
But see, a Great line cook or a Great waiter is a diff story. An owner would keep a great cook over a mediocre server. why? Bc a Great cook keeps the kitchen on track. And that cook gets promoted and can start to work their way up. Same thing the other way.
I’ve noticed something about chefs and cooks over the years. They take much greater pride in their work than the servers do, and I’ve always admired them for their ability to create with their hands. I always thought it was ironic that I almost always made more money as a server. However, I would stand at the pass, watching in awe as the chefs made what they do look easy. So what is more valuable, money or pride. You could argue both. The way I see it though, I get what I choose to pay for. If I don’t care about service or quality, I pay 10$ for a buffet. If I want to be served like a king, I work hard and save money to be able to spend 100$ on dinner. And every level in between.
I like that I have those options. I completely understand other countries will have more consistent and often better service and mid and lower end ... and not having to tip is nice but I like having the choice.
WAIT STAFF NEVER MAKE LESS THAN FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE. No hourly employee in the US can have an income less than minimum wage, But what about that $2.13 you ask? If you take that $2.13/hr and add tips, it is required by law that the total income MUST be equal to or above minimum wage, and the employer must always pay a minimum of $2.13/hr regardless of how much they make in tips. But what happens when the tips don't make it above minimum wage?The restaurant pays the difference. Wait staff never make less than federal minimum wage.
So your point 4 is only sort of correct, since the only effect it does have is that restaurants put lower prices on the menu, but tipping is about as "hidden" as a sales tax. It is a known factor when stepping into a food establishment.
@@octoNinja when you have an adult with adult bills doing a job you need to be paying adult wages, not the highschool wage minimum bullshit. I have no sympathy for business owners these days. that 2.13 an hour is crap! it shouldnt be allowed.
@@lukewarmwater6412 - I (usually) have no sympathy for owners either. The best that can be said for tipping is that it's an incentive to treat customers well.
Tip jars for counter service, like Dairy Queens or Dunkin Donuts? That I don't like.
I'm mexican and there's another consequence of the US tipping system that happened through tourism: some cities with heavy tourist traffic some service business owner have been trying to apply this system to the service workers here. On one hand, legally they can't do that, minimum salary is the same here regardless of the type of work you do, BUT, because not many people are educated enough to know about this (the influence of american shows and movies certainly doesn't help) some employers take advantage to make people agree to some this type of employment, and because of tipping american tourists they get away with it.
The kicker? Many times the tips are not fully given to the workers!! The owner will demand the tips to be accounted for, and in the spirit of supposed fairness, the employer will distribute the tips among all waiters and sometimes kitchen staff, but they still get the bigger cut from the total.
Seriously stop tipping, at least outside the US.
Integrating tips into wages, literally defies the definition, of a tip.
The older I get the less I know
Fucking hell I read your comment and then saw Clit Commander69😂😂😂 Even though you're getting older you are very much apart of this time friend.
Well the tips are actually a way to reward the staff for a task exceptionally done. But in the US, you have to tip at least 20% no matter what the service was like just because the boss don't wanna pay their employees. So tipping in that sense is being part of the problem and enabling the owner's greed.
I totally agree that automatic/compulsory tipping should be abolished.
For real. I remember when I was in highschool, I was on a history trip to the East Coast. I'd planned for a specific budget based on the money I managed to earn and my family could give me, and near the end of the trip when my funds were dwindling for food, I happened to sit at a table with some other people from the trip, and when the check game there was an extra charge on there for gratuity because we were a "group" that was FAR larger than I'd give for my single meal. It pissed me off a lot because it basically took out half the budget for my lunch the next day.
I was a kid and thought tipping was a nice optional gesture. boy was I wrong
@@kyletucker3811 should’ve said no, I’m not tipping.
Rather then that I feel like the law around tipping should be changed. Like, your wage shouldn’t be affected by the fact that grandma thought you looked like her grandson and wanted to give you a little extra.
@@LostLagrange We don't have to tip in Sweden, but there will be a group pressure to tip if you are out with a gang of friends. I still only tip if the service was exceptional.
My step daughter years ago was a server. I can say that most servers live below the poverty line. It's one of the reasons why there is a huge amount of turn over in eateries, bistros and the like. Those jobs are so low in pay that employees just go and leave as they please. It's anecdotal, but many people don't tip higher for good service. I can say that from just hearing about the stories from servers that I've met. In my opinion, the whole structure of tipping is really just a tactic to get business owners to deleverage they're cost of doing business onto the shoulders of they're customers.
Herman Cain a few years ago pushed a legislation to make the minimum wage lower for people in the service industry when it comes to busboys, servers, and waitresses. He argued that they're employees would be able to make up the difference in tips. Coincidently, Herman Cain was a republican presidental primary candidate and owned a line of pizzerias. On top of all of that, the waitress in most places have to give they're tips into a pool called "tip-share" which is a portion of they're tips divided among the rest of the staff.
It's one of the reasons why I assume that business owners are lying when they talk about salaries because it's easy to make that argument when your not looking at a business owners books. The reality is that for most owners, they don't WANT to pay that higher wage because they're not forced to. These businesses are not soup kitchens. They make very good money. The reality is if the difference between paying them a decent wage would dictate the survival of the business then mathematically speaking, they wouldn't be able to continue to run they're business. You don't even have to look at they're books directly to know that. Just based on what places normally charge for meals.
ive heard from a few people now they actually tip less when its pooled tips because they dont see it fair that the awesome servers efforts get shared amongst the rest of the staff
@@Sarge92 I'm not sure where you live but here in the states most servers and waiters quality for government assistance which means they live below the poverty line in most cases. For me it's less about staff getting to share in the spoils of a nice tip and more about the overall effect. To paraphrase Mark Blythe. Any system will eventually be gamed. Tipping is just another symptom of that problem but to horrible ends.
When a server works mostly on tips, the only person that saves money are the bistro owners. Because those people can't afford to live on they're own, they have to rely on they're friends and family to make ends meet. Staying at home with family, having a shared roommate situations with little or no privacy. Essentially what's happening on the micro level is that the bistro gets to privatize gains and socialize the losses of that exchange. The community is paying for the bistro's cost of doing business at both ends.
On the macro level it's horrible for the economy. Regardless of gender, that level of pay essentially makes you invisible the economy. Our economy runs on consumer spending. It's our life blood. When servers only have enough just to survive on tips and assistance, they don't get to own cars or any of the extras that actually keep our economy healthy. An economy that spends less doesn't do as well. This bleeds into many other sectors of our society.
I know this sounds like it's off topic but if you've spent any time on youtube you might have heard about the reduced birth rates in the west. Any guess why that's happening. Too Late (I can't wait) It's economic instability. I know of two cartoonist who would have loved to be parents but had to give that up because of they're profession. Granted they're not servers but the pattern is still the same. People have less children when they know they can't afford them.
The horrible part is that this isn't just a western problem. It's an issue that's bleeding into most developed nations across the globe.
Alternatively, the most effective way to jump start our economy is to pay people on the lower end of the income distribution way more money. Since they spend all of they're income on they need but don't have enough. (The literal definition of being poor) The money would go right back into the economy. The poor would be better off and job growth would skyrocket.
Pizzerias are not restaurants its a pizzaria that cooks a pizza puts it in a box and sends you on your way. What a silly comparison to a restaurant such as red lobsters.
U.S. law states that if the direct pay ($2.13/hr or more) + tips does not add up to at least the federal minimum wage ($7.25/hr), employers pay the difference to the employee to meet the $7.25/hr minimum wage requirement. If employers are failing to do this, then this is not a law but a law enforcement issue.
States and localities can have laws with a higher requirement than this but not less.
The $2.13/hr is just the amount the employer HAS to pay you directly, whether you get 1 cent or a million dollars in tips. So it is really a minimum wage issue, nothing particular to tipped workers; in fact, tipped workers typically make much more money than most other low-skill earners.
Abolishing this tipping system would decrease the incomes of most tipped workers, not increase them; for some it might remain nearly the same. Not to mention that tipped workers tend to not report all their income (it is possible this is becoming harder in a virtual money economy).
Larger issues with low-skilled income include decades of shipping jobs overseas via bad trade law (which elites benefit from), inflation (also benefits elites), and continual mass immigration of low-skilled workers (again, elites).
www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/flsa/tips-questions#1
@@zerospacer Ok, so let's examine this for a moment...
"U.S. law states that if the direct pay ($2.13/hr or more) + tips does not add up to at least the federal minimum wage ($7.25/hr), employers pay the difference to the employee to meet the $7.25/hr minimum wage requirement. If employers are failing to do this, then this is not a law but a law enforcement issue."
This statement is misleading because Bistro and Eateries send you home early if business is slow, which caps they're level of loss by only paying the Federal Minimum wage (for hours worked) and maximizes your loss due to opportunity cost. Loss of business happens often even to chain restaurants regularly during the week
All of that is besides the fact that you can't even live in the United States on the minimum wage. (see below)
www.cnbc.com/2021/07/14/full-time-minimum-wage-workers-cant-afford-rent-anywhere-in-the-us.html#:~:text=Earn-,Full%2Dtime%20minimum%20wage%20workers%20can't%20afford%20rent%20anywhere,according%20to%20a%20new%20report&text=This%20year%2C%20workers%20would%20need,for%20a%20one%2Dbedroom%20rental.
"The $2.13/hr is just the amount the employer HAS to pay you directly, whether you get 1 cent or a million dollars in tips. So it is really a minimum wage issue, nothing particular to tipped workers; in fact, tipped workers typically make much more money than most other low-skill earners."
Your right, this is a minimum wage issue. Specifically, I mentioned Herman Cain, the minimum wage, and how the tip system is used to continue to prop up a 7.25 wage amount on the Federal level. Please read that part further up. On the other hand, Waitresses do make more then some other low skill workers. The Average salary is around 19k. For reference you qualify for food stamps at a little over 17k. This means that in the real world if anything happens and I mean anything, the person in question is in financial ruin. (That's even if your single). It's one of the reasons why Waitresses for the most part can't afford to live on they're own. It's because they are already financially living along a razor blade...
"Abolishing this tipping system would decrease the incomes of most tipped workers, not increase them; for some it might remain nearly the same. Not to mention that tipped workers tend to not report all their income (it is possible this is becoming harder in a virtual money economy)."
I'm not sure if this is just an assertion or if you have some data behind this. If you do, I'd love to see it. From my vantage point, it's wrong. While waitresses make better money then other non skilled workers (on the Macro) the reality is that (on the Micro) the money isn't consistent. The bulk of any jobs wealth generation is in it's consistency, not in the potential highs that you can achieve. I don't know a server who would turn down a consistent wage over a potential to make marginally higher on occasion. That goes double if your a parent. This is one of the major reasons why jobs like being a waitress, being in sales, among other positions have high turn over rates.
Consistency (or ease of it) allows a worker to plan things ahead, be organized, make purchases, and pay off debt. These are the typical things that are required of a productive adult. In contrast having a job like a waitress is the antithesis of those qualities. A waitress has absolutely no control, not really over they're schedules, they're pay, or even if they have to go home early that day. Like most jobs where pay and work is inconsistent, the quality of workers applying for those positions are also poor, hence the turnover rate.
"Larger issues with low-skilled income include decades of shipping jobs overseas via bad trade law (which elites benefit from), inflation (also benefits elites), and continual mass immigration of low-skilled workers (again, elites)."
Bad trade deals are a contributing factor to the overall economic picture in the long run. That said, those jobs have been gone for 20 years now due to Nafta and other legislation in the 90's. On the other hand, the tipping system I'm talking about is still in place, and still hurting people now. Finally, Inflation, doesn't really help the elites. Elites are the ones that own the property, investment, and capital. When inflation goes up the elites investments lose value. Alternatively, the worker does better because they can more easily pay off debt that's been inflated. I would go watch a few videos of Mark Blyth on youtube. He explains this pretty well.
Here in Saskatchewan, the waitress “act” super nice , laugh at all your jokes and seem genuinely interested in anything you say, almost like they are your best friend, then as soon as you give a tip they completely change and seem like they have forgotten the last 30-60mins of interaction. I know it’s a bloody game and they can’t keep paying attention to you the whole time but it’s literally the moment they get paid , it’s off to the next customer . So I’m absolutely done with tipping. Thanks Thoughty2 for opening my eyes 👀 up or should I say validating what I was already thinking.
I worked as a cook for many years. A pretty waitress would make as much as I made in a 60 hour week over a Friday and Saturday night from tips.
Sounds like you should've tried serving lol
Were you not aware of that beforehand? And if so, why not use those many years to better your position? Line cook is bottom of the totem pole, barely above a busboy or dishwasher
@@BizlaC Yeah not getting tipped as a cook sucks but they dont get free food anytime they want, one meal a shift which most dont take. Cooks on the other hand can eat all throughout the shift, which honestly, is better than tips haha.
@@BizlaC Exactly, it'd usually be too busy and/or they dont care for the food. Me in the other hand, will gladly eat all throughout the shift. That's lunch and dinner I dont have to worry about.
Strippers make more than you as well. I believe that their pay is all tips. Get mad and stay mad
As a former server, the title of the video had my hair bristling.
To reiterate, not tipping only hurts the server.
Servers, honestly, have to deal with the worst of humanity. It was hell. People relish treating servers poorly regularly. An overwhelming percentage of customers are rude, spiteful, and unpleasant to engage with.
But, you are 100% right after watching the entirety of the video.
All servers in the U.S. would have to quit simultaneously for change to occur.
Want to talk about hell try working a entire station alone making dishes on a busy night orders building up strating to flash at you it's 100+ degrees and your only 4hrs into an 8hr shift ! I've fainted on the line from the heat before that's hell, Then not even getting tipped at the end of the night but seeing the waiters count their cash across the room.
@@meekonaleash I've worked into the kitchen too. Longer than serving even. Definitely sucks, and while on average you make less than a server in some places, you dont have to deal with people directly either. I made less money cooking, but was less stressed by far.
get a better job. simple solution, make yourself marketable
@@4XD45 With a name like Degenerate, no one expects you to understand.
I work as a cook and I love my wait staff, but god damn do I get salty when I think about the fat tips they get to keep when I'm busting my ass way harder than them XD
As a cook it can be infuriating when a server walks away with $200 in a single night
Try being a server then
I worked both sides of the restaurant. Started in back of house as a cook. Went to another and served. It would take a lot for me to go back to BOH. FOH is sooooooooo much easier and it pays much more.
@@wabash1581 The fundamental problem here in the States is the way the wage laws are written. Tips are supposed to be above and beyond your wage, not an essential part of how you get paid. I, too, have worked BoH, and it sucks, but wait staff are getting (legally) ripped off. I'm not a liberal, but it's clear the wage laws need serious revision.
@@cookie-sn5ex, your boss owes you both decent wages. The customer should not have to pay your wages.
I’m done tipping. It’s not my job to pay the server. The job is to serve me. I’m not being rude , and I don’t care what people think anymore
I grew up in Montana, where there is no tipped wage. Then I moved to Arkansas for a few months, where my wage was $2.68 an hour. I can tell you that was the grossest restaurant I've ever worked. No one cleaned. For $2.68 an hour, I show up. That's it, I'm not doing any thing else.
Yes ban tipping. It’s your bosses responsibility to pay you more not mine!!
You think like a socialst....it is not right! That man works FOR YOU! He serves your needs. So you should pay him/her!
sorindncs Wrong!! I’m a paying customer I already paid for my meal and he gets paid to bring me my food. Go cry to their cheap boss!!
@@sorindncs I already paid him/her by paying for my meal. That is their $2/ hour. So it's up to their greedy boss if they want to pay them more or not. Why should I have to pay them twice? I'm not their employer. When I go and buy a tube of toothpaste at walmart the amount I pay is already predetermined, I don't go and pay money to the toothpaste factory workers after I already paid money to get my stupid toothpaste. What kind of stupid system we live in where we have to feel guilty for using basic logic as opposed to wasting time and money on something stupid.
@@maskedmolereviews5715 it is for the quality service, if you don't want to tip go to McDonald's or get your food to go. Do you want the prices of your food to go up and have the server make less money and then your service to go down? Sounds like you are just cheap,
@@ask-mw5hk you sound like the cheap one, if they start paying servers more then the prices go up and the services goes down.
I work as a chef and I didn't even realize this. WTF, I'm mad now.
Pull your head out of the haggis, lad!
you are the main reason why people go back to the restaurant.
I call bs on this comment
@@mariobarrera420 ? why is it impossible to find 1 chef in the millions of viewers on this page?
Mcreeper 1 I always leave no tip for the waiter and instead ask to see the chef and then give the chef a tip
In Portugal there is also a tip culture, some people tip and some dont, but the waiters salary is the same as other professions and the tips usually go to a tip jar and are split between the staff ,the waiters and the bosses . waiters dont expect you to tip and they dont get mad if you dont, there is no service fee and the tip is a kind of optional compensation for good service...i have the habit to tip to round the change sometimes but no more than that... also a good cook in a good restaurant makes much more money than the waiters
I'm not sure about the service fee, there's a thing called the couvert and if you touch it and don't send it back when the waiter comes to take your orders, you get it on the bill. I'm Portuguese so I know :) I think the restaurant earns that money though, not the staff. The rest I agree, we tip only when we have good service and that's a 1% or 2% , no one tips 15% or 20%, that's crazy :D
where do you live? i am from Porto and spend a lot of time on Alentejo and Algarve..generally on the North part of the country the service tends to be better... and if you dont touch the couvert they by law cannot charge it and everybody sort of knows it so we act accordingly...sometimes they try to charge for a couvert that you did not eat but when that happens i call the waiter and report the situation and they remove that from the bill...never had any issues about it. but when i eat it i pay it of course..sometimes its hard to resist not biting into some olives or bread and butter while waiting for the food...and the money of the couvert is for the restaurant yes... i dont know about tips value but for example me and my wife for a diner on a good restaurant with wine etc may pay about 50€ and i tip to round the change or i put an extra 2€ or so, not more, that would be crazy
Tipping is an archaic concept and needs to be done away with in the US. A fixed-rate service fee included with the bill fixes all of the problems with tipping. If the service is very poor, the customer can bring the issue to the manager and request the fee to be removed.
So glad we don't tip in Japan , saves money, and restaurant staff should do their job well without tips.
If you cant afford to tip without missing the money, then you cant afford to go out in the first place. Staff already does their job well without the tip, you dont seem to realize that it comes post service.
@Locksher Mohes I never said or implied that i didnt understand. Quit making a bigger deal out of this than it actually is
@Locksher Mohes - Its not your place to decide things like that, peasant. I totally understand the video, i was a server for a little over 6 years. The responsibility isnt on the customer, its on the person who has chosen to work that job. Its cute to fantasize about employers paying $20-$30/hr or more, but any normally functioning adult will realize that this will never happen. Serving is an unskilled labor and they will never earn this wage, you really need to just grow tf up
@Locksher Mohes Wouldnt happen
@Locksher Mohes It is not a skilled labor. I was a server for a little over 6 years and made about 30/hr
When I saw the tip jars next to the cash register at Subway, I thought it was the end of the world as we know it. Then they started this trend of making you choose "no tip" when buying things with a bank or credit card. Next will be a flashing light when you don't tip enough. Tipping is a way to help the restaurant to pay their wait staff enough money and make their payroll your problem. I was a waiter and I tip very well but really resent being forced to do so.
It's an irritating custom. A no-tip restaurant would attract my business.
Well then we dont want your buisness lol
@@GodSpeed1105 fuck u bum
McDonald's, Chipotle, Panera bread, or any other fast casual restaurant is exactly that. You tip when someone serves you, or you serve yourself.
Well McDonald's and other fast food gems are widely available for such a discerning, altruistic person. 🙄
Good luck finding waitstaff there.
The saddest part is how they use "tipping" as a perk now. It's even written on my local Starbucks' door. They'll post like 25 cents above average PLUS TIPS in capital letters. Yeah no wonder the minimum tip is 20% and goes to 45% and the baristas look pissed when you select "No tip", they're sold to the fact that they'll make 2-4$ for every overpriced coffee sold.
The only time I ever consider tipping is at a sit down restaurant and get regular visits from the waitress.
When I first got out of my parents' place and on my own, the accepted tip was 10%. Sometime soon after, I was informed that the accepted level was now 15%. So I went along with it. Now, I'm being told that the accepted amount is 20%. So I did the math. The reasons given were that the cost of living was going up and that wait staff needed the extra percentage to live. And that's fine on the surface, but the cost of the meal is also going up and since the tip is a percentage of that price, wait staff seems to be getting paid twice. So I don't tip at 20%... I tip at 15%. But then there are the convenient tip options included on the debit machines they hand you, that have the assortment of tip options. If the lowest option is set at 20%, I select the option to set my own level, and pay 10% or lower.
Don't blame me. I have to live too... and I don't always get great pay increases.
BTW... Bad coffee always means less tip.
What happened to your thumbnails and background?
Taikamuna
He hired a guy, or found a new hobby.
I don’t consider it poor click bait. He has high quality content, might as well draw in more eyes
It's called click bait
And the suit. Please bring back the suit.
yeah, I am a long time viewer (2 years) and I don't really like the changes. I remember the old video every week schedule (now it is a fortnight) with the nice thumbnail.
Literally the same...
I tip well but i believe its bullshit. The owners should be paying the minimum wage. It's bullshit they basically say "come eat here, i have over priced food, slave wage workers to serve you, and crappy tables. Also you need to pay the servers extra because I can't be bothered to work that out."
@@malditonuke In theory. In reality, in America the tips are pretty much obligatory.
Sadly, most eateries these days look like you described them - overpriced mediocre food and crappy ambiance. That is why I only go to restaurants while having outings with friends.
@@malditonuke Yeah, but in the video he said that's actually not how it works out in reality.
Andrew Ament so you are saying we should be forced to pay for bad service?
As someone from Nz where we don't tip, I have been saying this for years.
I'm surprised. I guess Im the only one who truly decides to tip based off service, and never feel socially obligated to tip.
I don't know how that study reached their conclusion. I won't tip if the service was bad, if it was fine or decent they get a typical 15%, and if the service was just great and the food wasn't really expensive they'll get much more, maybe even 50% +
Some people believe that it’s whether they want to or not, which is true since it is your money, but ultimately their wages still depend on you.
I usually baseline it at 10% no matter the service. A server can earn up to 20% from me based on the quality of their service.
I only tip if the service was exceptional. I don't get tips to do my basic job but I get bonuses if I work really hard and put in the extra effort.
@@-G-A- Their wages depend on their willingness to do a job. They get paid an hourly regardless of tipping
In Italy we don’t tip. I love to travel and I remember when I first went to the US and everyone would tip this huge amount (to me) and I would feel strange and selfish because I didn’t want to but I had to.
The closest thing to a “tip” in Italy it’s when you round up the bill. However it can be same the other way around like if you’re missing 5/10/20 cent they will tell you it’s fine and you don’t need to pay.
Edit: I was appalled when I discovered at the time that waiters lived on tips.
Really I just feel lucky I don’t live in the US.
For all the people saying “it’s because you’re cheap” or “it’s your fault for not going to a no tip restaurant”
Seriously? Seriously?!
I bet that most of the people who said that, come from a place with tip culture.
Didn’t you just see the video? You are supporting the employers type of behaviour, do you really think that’s good? And if you do than why don’t you tip the cook and the cashier too? It’s not about being cheap or not, it’s about respect, human standards. Why should the employers not pay their employees? This is a form of abuse and you’re supporting it. Change doesn’t happen overnight. We all know it, but if you don’t do it, then nothing AT ALL will change.
I respect what you are saying. Withholding Sympathy tips punish the wrong person. Our government needs to change the rules. There have been many legislative attempts at it at various times. It just didn't get enough mainstream support from the upper class.
Also: I tip with marijuana whenever possible. It always makes the server smile. Sharing marijuana makes me happy
Problem is when you pay with card they can take what they want out and will often put the tip on the bill just to continue the practice.. so either way just going to these restaurants are supporting the tipping system.
Funny you should say that because their is a certain group of Italian-Americans who were always known to be big tippers.
@@dakotaadams3418 They do what? I think that is considered a type of fraud or theft here where i am from. On the other side paying with cash is more normal. And paying with a credit card is also more rare. We use mostly our cards from our bankaccount which is called a "girocard" for example (it depends on the company). And to pay with that you need to enter your pincode.
Would a restaurant do that here and the amount of money i paid and the receipt is different from each other...basically adding a tip which i doesnt wanted to give. I would call the police.
Yeah its wrong , i think instead of charging gratuity you put the price with the food and pay your employees.. if customer wants to tip they tip that person.
I just avoid restaurants. The whole experience is annoying.
You're definitely a virgin lol.
Restaurants are gay
mallexjansen: Big diss!
U mean avoid deliveries
mallexjansen OOOOOO!!! you sure got him great job👍
People act like I'm Satan when I express that I refuse to tip because I don't believe its my responsibility to pay some companies employees... not that I go out often shit I struggle to pay my bills
Holy wow! You changed the background to black! I love it! So much more proffessional and more easy to watch late at night.
Charlie Clumsy I can’t see him as much but either is fine.
Why should customers pay for the servers wages? Thats the employers job.
You servers are getting mad at the wrong people.
Dont get mad at the paying customer. Get mad at your employer for not freaking paying you. Get mad at yourself for signing up for a ridiculous job.
Because then they have to get a job that actually requires them to work.
Imagine being so stupid you thought serving wasn’t working lmao
Trevor Michael
Imagine being so stupid you accepted a $2.13/hour job
+Dr. Deek Hounds good thing I’m not a server, but I can understand the value of what they do and wouldn’t ever call it being lazy or not working. You don’t know everyone’s circumstances dude.
What the fuck is happening with them. The video is showing $28/hour. Someone is saying $50/hour and someone else is crying for circumstances!!!
I worked at a hot dog stand in front of a Lowes many moons ago. On my first day I worked with a young lady who, while we were both helping serve an order, told the lady customer how she was going to school and working too. That lady left a $20 tip. At the end of the night, she snatched it, and her half of the other tips, which was like half of $6 and some change. I asked if we should split it a little more fairly and she got mad and said the lady felt for her story, so all that $20 tip was hers. After our shift she called the manager and told him something that got me fired the next day. That's life.
Sexual harassment story, ah the wonders of western women.
@@wexfordbuccos_7161 fr
@Karina Boguta You can get fired just because the employer feels like it in much of the country unless you have a contract, are unionized or have some similar protection.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_dismissal
Tipping isn’t an incentive for good service. It’s a way for employers to rip the customer and their employees off. Once you get a big tip, the employer can lower their wages because they’re getting “a lot of money”
I love these red pilled Thoughty2 videos.
yes rusty
Another selfish POS speaks out to salve their conscience.
Ethan Allen what....? Was that english?
Holy shit, Rusty Cage watches Thoughty2?
When you gonna clean your cage?
I don't tip for power. I do tip very well if say I like the place and the service is always good or I feel I gave the staff much of a hassle.
In my state the employers are required to make up the difference if your monthly tips along with your hourly pay does not reach the common minimum wage.
sounds like an easy way to double dip
@@Spider-Too-Too Yeah, way to easy to abuse that
@@Spider-Too-Too exactly. I worked at a restaurant and no I didn't lie but I did count fast and round way down. Waaaaay down. They paid me to serve truckers and farmers their coffee not to be an accountant. Stupidest system ever.
Isn't that the case for every state? There is a minimum wage, right? Not making up the difference would be illegal and get them in deep shit.
@@eneco3965 you are correct. That's the slight of hand. Pay our employees because they are poor and destitute because we don't pay them doesn't that make you feel bad. But really it's pray our employees because if you don't them we have to by law and we don't want to do that. The rabbit hole gets deeper: Pay or employees because they only make 2:50 and it turns out we don't have to pay them more because other peoples tips put them over minimum and you should feel.... I guess.... Bad? about that. And my favorite: top our employees because yes we have to pay minimum wage but if it's up to us we would make them wait until their pay period and they would rather have your money today and you are supposed to feel... Bad? about that.
As an American, living in NYC. I am often deterred from dining out because tip is expected to be 20% to 25% on top of freaking 8.877% tax. That is over 1/3 of the cost that goes towards NOT food. What is the point. When I do want a restaurant meal, I do take out more often and will only dine out for special occasions. It's becoming such a rip off now.
The truth is most waiters and waitresses dont want to be paid min wage with no tips because they wouldn't make as much money
tough.
i still wont tip.
when they make ME money, i will pay them.
but they dont work for me. they work for their employer. it's their employers responsibility to pay them. not mine.
@@sabin97 You're psychotic. It's a competitive system, and you're pussying out on your voluntary part.
So if there are two waiters, and one receives a normal person as a patron, and the other receives you, the one that gets you gets fucked. THAT makes you psychotic. I figured you wanted to understand that :)
@Andy Gadd I have headache that is so rich it gives tips even to bus driver,in every shop i go by and to the nice lady that is comming next to me..
Yeah that is the truth it’s a tiring job to bring people their food and listen to their shitty complaints and be treated like garbage by the customers and the cooks during a 10 hour shift. You’re basically the asshole who has to take complaints from both ends. I think the tipping should be outlawed and servers should be paid more than minimum wage because most restaurants make enough to pay them more than minimum wage.
Well I think it's fine not to tip it's your right but as soon as you sit down you should tell your waitress at waitstaff that your not tipping don't make them go out of their way to help you enjoy your meal. You get treated like two bucks an hour
You speak the truth, my brother.
Oh how frustrating it is to live in a society where you're expected to tip, and the number of services and the percentage keeps increasing. Pretty soon you'll be expected to tip every time there's an exchange of money at any instance.
stfu ur brown
I think when people bust their butts and deal with the public...if they work hard to take care of people..they deserve extra tips just to give some incentive...some people should not be working in hospitality...so don't give them a reason to continue
@@jessikAset ask for proper payment ?
4,600 blond big-boobed waitresses have watched this. Some people benefit from a corrupt system.
Mmhmm. I'm at a restaurant to eat, not be fake flirted with, by some bimbo looking for easy money. Take my order and bring me my food. Skip the phoney chit-chat. It just teaches young woman that they can get more money from men by being fake sexual, rather than work hard. It encourages lazy gold diggers, teaches men to BUY women and degrades our society.
Thought something similar when I saw the surprisingly low like to dislike ratio. 4800 meanwhile
Wow, stereotyping much?
I think even they could make more with a fair system
@@davidvondoom2853 You tip the bimbo so as to tip the Chef or the cook. If you are out on the town with your woman (your golddigger), this is about power/resources not how cheap you can be. I can cook my own steak for less at home and better.
From my own personal experience most the rich folks with fancy cars and such don’t tip as well as those who know what it’s like living on tips. Every time I go out to dine or such I always tip the workers a fair amount unlike those who looked down on me.