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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 252 points 1 week ago (50 children)

Who's the cheap one in this equation?

.... the customer who is paying the owner of the restaurant for the food AND is obligated by social convention to pay extra to the waiter who is underpaid.

or

... the restaurant owner who doesn't mind living in a world where we have normalized underpaying restaurant workers to the point where we pass down that responsibility to the customer who is already paying for the food.

Pay your workers a proper wage and get rid of the idea of tipping.

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago (18 children)

Don't like tipping? Protest the policies by not going to restaurants, dont shove it on the workers who are stuck in the system.

The owner is 100% happy you came to pay him and not the waiter he didnt wanna pay anyway.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Honestly, in these debates more often than not I find that the waiters don't want tipping culture changed either. A lot (not all, I understand) of waiters make bank on tips and then don't accurately report them as income so it's not even taxed correctly. They don't want that to change.

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't give a shit what the waiter wants honestly, I shouldn't have to pay the owner and the worker separately

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I don't disagree with you.

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