There are laws in place for service workers related to minimum wage. The employers have to make up the difference if tips don’t meet the rate for hours worked. It seems to me that’s not sufficient for the times.
Hypothetically, if everyone were to stop tipping in the U.S. would things be better or worse for workers? Would employers start paying workers more?
Definitely. I’ll give a decent tip for a cocktail, but you get a buck if you’re pouring me a beer or popping open a bottle.
Well, yeah a mixed drink is more for sure. Or if they actually like provide conversation or any service at all really. I’m not against paying for service, I just don’t think the honor system is a good way of doing it when it effectively means employers reliably abuse that honor to cheap out on fair compensation, and I’m sick of supporting unfair unethical business practices. What I really need to do is quit tipping entirely, but fuck me I’ve worked for tips before, I know how it goes. Just that bartenders happen to be one of the few positions that receive tips that actually benefit from the arrangement compared to just being paid a fair wage for their labor. And when people feel bad for not dropping an extra 25% (Twenty-Five Percent! She actually had the audacity to complain I didn’t leave Twenty-Five Percent! To my face!) it’s no surprise.