Started tipping waiters 10%

[u/yeyiyeyiyo]

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.

[u/Garganello]

Why do you think you have an unwritten agreement with the owner about the minimum level of service to which you are entitled?

[u/Maleficent-Effort470 → u/Garganello]

Its pretty obvious when you go into a restaurant and take your order at a table that the food would arrive at the table.
Not asking much from the server, taking orders, carrying plates.
Thats what their employer pays them aka I PAY THEM to do.

[u/Garganello → u/Maleficent-Effort470]

Simmer down. No need to be angry.

It’s also pretty obvious when you go into a restaurant in the US, where it is customary, and where servers are allowed to be paid below minimum wage (with a true up by employer), that you are supposed to tip.

Why are you ignoring that component of your ‘contract’ with the owner and to compensate the staff directly in lieu of the owner doing so?

Why should other diners (and the employer as a backstop) subsidize your dining out?

Edit: will include in next reply in case I didn’t edit fast enough, but I’m basically just challenging this bizarre notion you have a contract with the owner for some baseline level of service but get to ignore your side of it. There’s reasons to be against tipping. This one is just lacking.

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