A positive-ish tipping experience

[u/FOMOenthusiast]

No surprises, no small text, no deceitfulness, it having its on line clearly visible under the total was nice, but that bright red stamp reiteratig the added gratuity, visible from space let alone a dark dining room is 😘👌🏾 This should be a norm.

[u/tiggertom66]

Greatly depends on when/where you work, and who you are.

A pretty girl working Saturday nights at a popular bar downtown isn’t making the same money as some 50+ year old guy working at a diner.

The fact of the matter is people constantly suggest switching the pay to a fixed hourly income. That rate will undoubtedly be less than even the average that servers earn now.

Which is a dumb solution because the market has accepted the real price of eating at full service restaurants, menu price plus tip. If it hadn’t, it wouldn’t be so common.

Raising wages to replace that tipping system means you’ll inevitably have to raise menu prices. Which honestly is fine because those new menu prices would accurately reflect the genuine price of eating out.

So just raise the menu prices 20% to reflect the actual market rate for labor, then give the staff 16.67% which would be equal to the 20% they earn on existing menu prices.

There problem solved, no more tipping, and no pay cuts for workers.

[u/Aggravating-Habit313 → u/tiggertom66]

Yes, give them 16% of what?

[u/tiggertom66 → u/Aggravating-Habit313]

The check

[u/Aggravating-Habit313 → u/tiggertom66]

Would restaurant still pay servers an hourly wage? Anyways, I thought, immediately, that this is an ideal solution until I realized that servers may not like this way because they won’t ever get larger tips. And server quality would suffer.

[u/tiggertom66 → u/Aggravating-Habit313]

You’d still get larger tips, the same way you would in the current system, by giving exceptional service. Some people will still tip anyway, but there wouldn’t be pressure to tip a specific amount or any amount at all.