restaurants are fighting back
Unless it’s by raising their prices by 15-20% and paying their employees a living wage, it ain’t gonna work. Tipping is moronic.
No one should tip anyone. Tipping supports wage theft. If no one tipped, business models that depend on tipping would find no one to hire, so they’d be forced out of business, or need to start paying something closer to a living wage. Yes, this would happen on the backs of those currently working such jobs, but if nothing ever changes, then nothing ever changes.
Accelerating your fellow workers deeper into poverty isn’t the way.
But subsidizing their abusive employer is, right?
Wage theft is the largest type of crime in the US. A huge amount of employers are abusive, not all of them have workers at tipping wages.
Maybe instead of taking money out of another working-class person’s pocket, we need to actually have some class solidarity.
If you don’t want a tip, don’t eat there. But eating in a place like that and refusing to tip is just hurting other working people.
Ah yes, by buying my dinner with my money I, not their fucking boss, am taking money out of their pockets.
You see, this is the problem. You think solidarity is just a ticket to unbounded gains, so you encourage a pattern of behaviours that only contribute to the downward spiral. You’re not ready for solidarity, yet. You need to start with trust. If you don’t think your clients should be able to expect you to set prices that cover the cost of the exchanged goods and services, that they should instead guilt splurge so that your notoriously wage stealing boss, then you aren’t in a position to be serious about contributing to a movement of solidarity.
