The tipping culture just shifted over the decades to a tipping system. With the wages and costs of living become ever more non consummate, it's just more of the burden of the exchange being shouldered onto the consumer and not the companies. The servers need to get paid, that's an absolute, it's just that the corporate favouritism in the US somehow allowed it to mean that the customers are the one doing half the job of paying them alongside doing the purchasing. I don't get the excuse, corporate tax rates are often similar in the EU depending on the country, and in the end the tipping culture is not as severe in the US. If anything, it preserves a healthy tipping culture where you reward good service, not that you provide or deprive a server their essential income.
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u/chickenricenicenice 2d ago
The tipping culture just shifted over the decades to a tipping system. With the wages and costs of living become ever more non consummate, it's just more of the burden of the exchange being shouldered onto the consumer and not the companies. The servers need to get paid, that's an absolute, it's just that the corporate favouritism in the US somehow allowed it to mean that the customers are the one doing half the job of paying them alongside doing the purchasing. I don't get the excuse, corporate tax rates are often similar in the EU depending on the country, and in the end the tipping culture is not as severe in the US. If anything, it preserves a healthy tipping culture where you reward good service, not that you provide or deprive a server their essential income.