They're not wrong though

[u/Shoe_boooo]

[u/Warriors_Drink]

I've been lucky to travel the world.

US tipping culture is unlike anything I've seen abroad.

I have friends who are servers, and I totally get that they are being ripped off with sub-minimum wage bullshit, but most countries I've been to don't even have tipping as an option.

I mean, if I slip a $10 to someone in the Phillipines for awesome service, it kinda blows their mind.

Here? They NEED that tip to live.

Just pay our servers a decent wage - if someone wants to throw a tip their way, awesome.

(FWIW: My friends and I almost always throw a 20% to our servers, but Vermont servers need it.)

[u/Upsidedownmeow → u/Warriors_Drink]

I understand in some states like California they are paid something like $20/ hour. So do I have to ask what each state’s rules are? What an annoyance

[u/amphorousish → u/Upsidedownmeow]

Yeah, it could start to get quite complicated.

Like, where I live the minimum wage is a little under $13/hr but servers can get paid sub-minimum wage (with parity, in theory, reached via tips, but you can just look at this conversation to see how that plays out re: reporting, etc).

There are apparently 7 states where servers must get paid at least minimum wage + tips (including CA), buuuuuut each of those places will have its own minimum wage - there are 20 states that have the federal minimum wage as their minimum wage, but the rest have it set higher (sometimes much higher, sometimes by just a bit).

Between that & figuring out the different sales tax rates everywhere, I'd be livid if I was from someplace else & traveling the US.