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Honestly dude if you cant afford to tip. You have no business eating out in america. As a former tip worker, ya they us about 5$ an hour BECAUSE the workers make up for it in tips. and thats a big IF. theirs no obligation on the employer to make sure that they actually come up positive. and Ultimately if you dont tip because you dont agree with tipping? You just forced one of the poorest members of our country to serve you for literally 3$ which quite honestly? kinda makes you a piece of shit if you do that.
False. If tips don't bring your pay above minimum wage, the employer is legally required to make up the difference. If they're not doing that, they are breaking the law.
Tipping culture is, and always has been, a ploy by the restaurant industry to get away with not paying their employees a living wage. If they could push 100% of the employees' wage onto the bottom of a customer's bill, they would do it. That's not the customer being a piece of shit, that's the restaurant owners.
But it's a difficult system to break because, typically, tips add up to notably higher than minimum wage. So neither restaurant owners, nor the workers have any incentive to ask for it to be changed, and no one is going to pass legislation that forces food industry workers to make less because then they're the bad guy.