We dug into how American tipping culture got so broken, and the fight to fix it.

It turns out that your tips are subsidizing the payrolls of multi-billion dollar chains, while they pay their workers under minimum wage.

It’s a system rooted in slavery, and pushed by a wealthy restaurant owners onto the rest of us.

But there’s a growing movement to change it.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Ugh. I’m using the generic “you”, not like, literally you.

    But if people still do business there and then just refuse to tip, those people are not hurting the business. They are only hurting the worker.

    Get it?

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      I don’t know, you seemed to think I knew about Applebee’s earlier, I had to explain I’m in a different country in some way because you didn’t pick that up and assumed I was familiar with your local brands. You said “tip generously or stay home”, that was what I was responding to, I stand by my assessment that tipping generously seems counter productive, you can choose to make boycotts or lobby your government to make changes in your country but that’s none of my business (besides internationalist worker solidarity which can only go so far).

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        1 year ago

        omfg if you don’t live in a shithole country where tipping is normal then it doesn’t apply to you, fucking obviously lol