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1. Increase their prices by 15-20% across the board
2. Instruct their waiters to tell all customers that tipping is not required, nor accepted
3. Pay the waiters only 0-10% of the bill, and keep the rest for themselves
If we're relying on leaky laws like these in order to protect the under-privileged, we really need to reconsider our social safety net.
And men would lose $1.2B. Why the gendered title? Why not "Waiters would lose $5.8B in earned tips"?
I hate tipping culture. When I was young and a waitress in college, I noticed horrible racism from waiters who treated minorities badly due to tipping stereotypes. Please just get rid of it for living wages.
Why would anybody tip if the tip doesn't go to the server? That's the only reason that I tip.
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To highlight who the biggest losers are -- the subset of workers that already face wage discrimination would face 80% of the tip loss.
I would be shocked if female waiters in the US are paid less than male ones. Got a source?
http://rocunited.org/publications/tipped-over-the-edge-gende...
– The industry follows a conscious business model of confining women to the lower-paid positions within restaurants. Women are hired for only 19 percent of chef positions, for example, even though traditionally most women are more likely to do a majority of the cooking at home.
- In addition, women are confined to the lower-paying segments of the industry such as quick-serve and family style rather than the highest-paying fine dining segment. So even within the same job classification of server, full-time, year-round female servers are paid just 68 percent of what male servers are paid ($17,000 vs. $25,000 annually).
http://fortune.com/2015/10/23/wage-gap-restaurants/
- Women and workers of color are often pushed into the lowest-paying jobs in the food service industry, according to a report from the Restaurant Opportunities Center United, a labor advocacy group.
- Women are pushed toward lower-paying jobs at more casual restaurants, and people of color are channeled toward even lower-paying jobs such as bussing and kitchen positions.
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Counter point -- Tipping is a way to insure excellent service on return visits to service oriented establishments.
So, I assume you never tip when traveling?
I do tip more at places I frequent.
Some have different levels of UX where you are basically prompted to give 15%, 20%, 25%. I wonder where the tip actually goes in this case?
One could argue that if this proposal were to go through, people in tipped industries would receive an allocation of wages that's less tied to subjective consumer tastes about inherent physical attributes that don't directly contribute to the quality of service received. Though I lack polling data on this, I'm hypothesizing most people would perceive that as more fair.
[1] http://scholarship.sha.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic... [2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167487015...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
To highlight who the biggest losers are -- the subset of workers that already face wage discrimination would face 80% of the tip loss.
I would be shocked if female waiters in the US are paid less than male ones. Got a source?
"DOL has masked the fact that this rule would be a windfall to restaurant owners and other employers—out of the pockets of tipped workers—by making it sound as if this rule is about tip pooling." Sounds like this one must've been written by lobbyists? Assuming this article is accurate, why would this seem like a good rule to get rid of?