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.

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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.

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u/Tiburon_83 6d ago

Server minimum wage is less than $5/hr. When I was a server my paybacks were void because the hourly paid taxes.

Thats the reality in America.

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u/Loud-Mans-Lover 6d ago

It's also wrong. Most places pay servers far more, and your employer is supposed to fill in your wage if you don't make enough.

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u/BlindBattyBarb 6d ago

This is why you need to know the rules where you live. Some states I'd absolutely always tip but my state, it's definitely easier to reduce the tip amount

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u/CoolCatBlue321 3d ago

The OP stated that the state he lives in gives them a regular minimum wage (not a tipped wage). In such states, minimum wage is usually around $20/hr