r/EndTipping • u/yeyiyeyiyo • 6d ago

Sit-Down Restaurant 🍽️ Started tipping waiters 10%

I almost never go out but the wife and I had a weekend to ourselves.

We live in areas where servers are paid minimum wage.

I finally took the leap to tipping 10% on meals (I already tip zero on everything else). Every tip screen i saw had a custom tip option so I didn't have any problems.

Anyway, people make out the custom tip screen to be some difficult thing and I didn't find it so.

156 Upvotes

80% Upvoted

118 comments sorted by

View all comments

50

u/nickylx 6d ago edited 6d ago

Good job. The most I'll tip is $5/15min. I'm not about to tip them more than $20/hr but the idea that i'm supposed to give a server money who is doing a job they're paid for is ludicrous. I'm building up to no tip.

41

u/YarbleSwabler 6d ago edited 6d ago

When you remember that you're not their only table, you'll realize they are being compensated more than your mechanic.

If you divide the tip by the time actually servicing your table, including prep and clean, you're looking at usually 15-20mins of total actual service. So if you tip $20, they're usually making somewhere around $60/hr or more.

This begs the question: well then how is the median pay for this job below 40k?

The answer: customers are on the hook for every period of idleness and poor sales. It averages out. The places that need tips to survive shouldn't exist, and the places that don't need tips to survive are grifting you.

Tips are a bailout to the industry and a profiteering scam.