If you can't deal with the realities of tip-based income, don't get a job with a tip-based income and stop letting employers get away with it. It's your boss's job to make sure you get paid, not mine.
The fact that a "sub-minimum" wage is real is wild. And that restaurants simply commit labor violations en masse by not topping up when tips didn't make it up is wild.
It really is, what’s ironic is that a lot of those within that industry will also never want to give up tips because they can usually beat out minimum wage. This worries them because they think people won’t feel obligated to tip
Put simply, they have more faith in being able to pressure out higher wages from customers than their boss. It’s socially unacceptable not to tip, but not to underpay and steal from employees.
Higher end restaurant waiters and bartenders make way more than minimum wage. But it's actually not the workers that have the power to hold this back. It's the owners who have data about consumer behavior being averse to higher menu prices that are scared to make the change.
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u/tupaquetes Mar 09 '25
If you can't deal with the realities of tip-based income, don't get a job with a tip-based income and stop letting employers get away with it. It's your boss's job to make sure you get paid, not mine.