>>12940612Burger here. In defense of tipping.
Firstly, no one who makes tips is paid less than minimum wage, this is basically just a big myth/psyop to get you to feel bad. Legally, if a person makes less than minimum wage with their tips, they can demand their boss pay them the difference so that they made minimum wage.
Nobody makes less than minimum wage.
Secondly, most jobs with tips actually make far more than minimum wage. Feel free to smash that calculation in your head if you want. Minimum wage is 8.50$ here in florida, you work 8 hours you get 68$ for it. Conversely, here in florida, if you're paid in tips your boss can pay you $5.50 an hour (Again, having to make up the difference if you dont get enough tips). This means you have to make 24$ in tips over the course of a workday (8*3$) to have made more than minimum wage in tips. Depending on where you're working, you can clear that off a single fucking order. Some big family came into applebees and tipped 10%? Boom, done.
Thirdly, if we eliminated tipping, the consumer would not save money. The restaurant owners would simply increase prices to offset the cost of their employees. You wouldn't save any money.
Fourthly, if we eliminated tipping, the workers wouldn't make more money. Consider that most of them make more than minimum wage, now you get rid of tipping and their bosses simply pay them minimum wage, because they're waiters and pizza delivery boys and shit, so they make minimum wage. Turns out now they're making less money!
Fifthly and finally, consider the work attitude of a restaurant that gets tips and one that doesn't. Which employees have their financial success directly tied to how busy and popular the restaurant is? Which of them are more likely to work harder (and see immediate direct benefits of such work)? Obviously the one where they receive tips. This is why large companies occasionally pay employees in stock options.
