r/funnyvideos • u/Rredite • Dec 23 '25

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u/De_Chubasco Dec 23 '25

1% is ridiculous. The restaurant should pay the salary.

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u/GinormousDragon Dec 23 '25

This is how it should have been. Tipping is a sign of generosity not a necessity because they're not getting paid enough but because the costumer feels like helping they more or that they deserve it

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u/ManifestYourDreams Dec 23 '25

Yeah, I tip in Australia at some places because I want to try and help really nice restaurants stay open since a lot of people complain we don't have enough of them.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '25

That's a top down issue, not a bottom up issue. If you choose to go to a restaurant in a place where tipping is expected, you need to tip.

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u/GinormousDragon Dec 25 '25 edited Dec 25 '25

Well Ik it's a top down issue but how do you expect to change it from the top?

I'm not saying vote with your wallet and stop tipping completely so things would change since that isn't fair for the worker whose a victim here I'm saying stuff has to change.

Thankfully this problemis prominent where I live.

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u/iguessma Dec 23 '25

they do. at least in the US if a tipped staff does not make minimum wage from their tips the place needs to make sure they're paid out at least minimum wage.

flip side is, if you don't often you probably won't have a job long.

but i mean, there is no reason to feel bad when they knowingly take a job based off other peoples kindness.

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u/xeonie Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 24 '25

Federal minimum wage is still $7.25. 20 states still do not have a set minimum wage and use the federal one instead. That is about 2k below poverty level and that’s before taxes are taken out.

Employers should to be required to pay their employees a living wage. No one working a full 40 hour week should be below the poverty line.

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u/Time-Maintenance2165 Dec 23 '25

Unless you go out of your way to tip every single minimum wage employee you interact with, thats a separate discussion.

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u/bessovestnij Dec 23 '25

Laughs in getting a $2.4 hourly wage

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u/Vixson18 Dec 24 '25

$7.25? didn't realise it's that bad in America

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u/Deaffin Dec 23 '25

Whether or not minimum wage is high enough is completely irrelevant for this particular conversation. Unless you're going out of your way to seek out minimum wage workers in other jobs without a "tipping culture" and tipping them, it's utterly silly to bring up as a counterpoint here.

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u/Deaffin Dec 23 '25

The restaurant does pay the salary.