We dug into how American tipping culture got so broken, and the fight to fix it.

It turns out that your tips are subsidizing the payrolls of multi-billion dollar chains, while they pay their workers under minimum wage.

It’s a system rooted in slavery, and pushed by a wealthy restaurant owners onto the rest of us.

But there’s a growing movement to change it.

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Speaking for the rest of the world, who are saner, F%$^ your US uber etc software trying to normalise this toxic BS ‘culture’ in other countries.