the tipped minimum wage is one of the most vile things in American labor tbh
Yooo this is a feminist issue: service industry workers are overwhelmingly minorities, women, and in fact, minority women (who I am sure are already aware of this dynamic).
Holy shit that sort of minimum wage is vile and disgusting.
That is also why NOT tipping your servers 15-20% in America is considered not just cheap, but incredibly unkind. And 15-20% is the BARE MINIMUM. Tipping less is justified if the server’s, like, super incompetent and totally unapologetic about it, or incredibly, impossibly, unarguably rude or something. That should happen to you, like, maybe twice in your life, unless you’ve got shit luck. Tip your FUCKING SERVERS.
Yup…been going through this shit for two years
I literally did not know this until just now.This is why when someone wants to make some sort of bullshit political statement by not tipping their wait staff, I call bullshit. THEY ARE JUST AS IF NOT POORER THAN WE ARE, SO TIP THEM.
Yeah and people are like “But the food will cost more blah blah” well then your ass needs to sit at home. It won’t cost more for me because I already fucking tip.
If you have math anxiety (or are just terrible at percentages) and figuring out how much to tip is a problem for you, there are good smartphone apps designed for tips and bill-splitting - I have Tip N Split Tip Calculator, which you can find on the Chrome Android apps site (not sure about an iOS version but surely).
Another way to figure out your tip: take the ones column out of the cents and move the decimal left by one. What you’re left with is ten percent. Double it for your minimum tip.
Also, I promise you, if you tell your waitress you need to figure out what thirty percent is because she did a wonderful job, she will be happy to lend you a pen.
If you can’t afford to tip, don’t go out. In 2002 my mom brought home a $64 for two weeks’ work once.
She’d worked something like 70 hours.
Tip your fucking waitstaff.
(Source: moreleftthannot, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)
