Go JOE! Gonna have to go get some crabs.
Milli Vanilli, Bigger than Elvis
^ This. While I approve of the new policy, most waiters and waitress depend/prefer tips. If they're very experienced and professional, often they make more then the managers or bosses they work for from tips alone. So the $14/h wage can't really match or compete with what some are already used to.
Originally Posted by Naphta
The tipping culture turns customer service workers into beggars.
how? and you really shouldnt bitch at customers when they don't tip you because the company is losing more business than you are in tips because you're being a whiny self centered baby
when i was a delivery driver i was more frustrated with the people that i worked with and too focused on not getting a ticket to care about tips. one time a guy paid me in all change because they didn't have the cash. they wanted to pay with the card but someone else would have had to be sent out with the receipt anyway.
they could not give me a tip. i told them it was okay. i did not care at all. the company i worked for practically covered my gas expenses by giving me the delivery charge. if you deliver 50 orders in one day, you're really not going to give a shit about 4 or 5 of them not tipping. my job wasn't to cry about tips - it was to deliver orders swiftly and to create a great image for the company I worked for.
We argue a lot about the matter of tipping on here. But the fact of it, is that a lot of people DO TIP and personally in my experience most of the people who do not tip are teenagers.