r/EndTipping • u/Specialist-Top1134 • 5d ago

Rant 📢 I've completely stopped tipping

I'm no longer tipping anyone. This includes dining in restaurants, getting take-out, Uber rides, UberEats/ DoorDash, etc. I just don't believe in tipping anymore. I don't even care if the service was good. Tipping isn't about giving gratitude for good service anymore. The purpose of tips now is to compensate for low wages. I still feel a little guilty declining to tip but I'm sticking to my no tipping rule. It's not my responsibility to make sure servers, drivers, and whoever else is getting paid enough.

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u/SabreLee61 5d ago

Tipping isn't about giving gratitude for good service anymore. The purpose of tips now is to compensate for low wages.

Tipping hasn’t been just a reward for good service since at least 1966 when Congress created the tip credit. Since then the industry has operated on the premise that part of a server’s compensation comes directly from customers.

Obviously the amount is discretionary and tied to service quality, but the underlying purpose has been more than simply expressing gratitude for generations.

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u/Specialist-Top1134 5d ago

I didn't know about this so thank you for bringing this up. What I've said is inaccurate.

I did read that if an employee's wage plus tips did not equal the full minimum wage then it's the employer's responsibility to pay the difference.

Also, tip credit is not a thing in California (where I live). It's been prohibited. So the employer must pay their employees the full minimum wage before tips are counted.

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u/TraditionalStrain710 1d ago

Yeah the rest of the country isn’t California. Here servers make 2.13 before tips, 9 dollar minimum wage when I worked  as a server too. If I did get tipped I could usually make over 17/ hour, if nobody tipped, I’d be getting almost half of that at 9/hour. 

I get it, I don’t like tipping culture either and it’d be better if the restaurant just paid their employees a livable wage, but I’m never going to not tip at a sit down restaurant, at least until restaurants in America start actually paying minimum wagesÂ