Because the cook is getting paid minimum wage or more, whereas the server is getting paid under $3 an hour.

Yes, I would, as long as the service wasn’t exceptionally shitty too. Don’t assume everyone else is an asshole just because you’re one.

You’re the one making the assumption that, if this rule goes into effect, all of a sudden owners would go crazy and rip off employees.

Owners have no incentive to “steal tips” and no one has been able to explain why on Earth they would ever want to do so. It doesn’t make sense.

Etiquette says yes, you tip the server regardless of someone else’s performance. Economics says yes as well. It’s shocking that you’ve made it all the way to the advanced age of 19 (I’m assuming based on the exact nature of your edgelordery) without learning what tipping is.

Sorry Chump. I got paid just fine for the work that I did, in the form a decent hurly wage. As long as we have laws, along with tipping customs, whereby a waiter is paid $3.40/hour and relies on tips, then no, I would not want a portion of their tips.

Worse: I know advanced economics. Supply... wait for it... doesn’t always meet demand! Not all market actors are exactly literally equal to each other! Blacklisting, collusion, and price-fixing all exist in real life! Geography affects costs, in fact, markets aren’t perfectly frictionless at all! Is your mind…

It already happens. They do it because in some areas, jobs are hard to find. A shitty job is better than no job.

LOL, yup, because that’s a thing workers can do in a capitalist society: just quit and move to a different employer if the current one acts unscrupulously! Foolproof plan you got there, bud. Fire ‘em all and let the free market sort ‘em out, amirite?

You really keep hammering home the “every worker would quit” part of this without seeming to put any thought into it. Our country’s history is filled with stories of people working for companies in horrible working conditions because they had no other choice. Some people can’t just give up a paycheck because their…

Actually no. Your responses show that you never worked in a real restaurant. They also show you to be a shitty person if you stiff the waiter for a problem with the food.

Did you not read the whole article? The employer can take the tips, but is under no obligation to redistribute them to the non-tipped employees. In other words, it is legally stealing from their own employees.

Are you for fucking real? You’re a massive fucking hypocrite. Just a thread above you’re arguing that you shouldn’t be paying as much taxes to help out others in the country - you know, setting up a fucking infrastructure, building blocks of a civilized society (which, with people like you, has been proven the US is…

So you’re totally fine enabling a rule change that, if abused, could put people in a position where either a)part of the money they’ve earned is being taken away from them and they have to suck it up; or b)they have to give up their paycheck and hope that they can find another one quickly enough not to disrupt their…

I worked in restaurants for over thirty years, you have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about. And for a man who was gleefully going on about the new tax plan and how he should get to keep more and more of his money you have no problem insisting restaurant employees be forced to share their hard earned tips.…

Pretty sure the federal minimum is much lower than that (in the $7 range). Obama used an executive order that raised the minimum for Gov employees and federal contractors but not across the board.

Just pointing out the irony (is it irony if it’s unsurprising, though? hm) that you call it “sharing” when it’s redistributing other people’s money but it’s “socialism” when it’s yours.

Waiters have the easiest job in restaurants, huh?

Wrong. The waiters have to deal with entitled pricks like you all day, while the kitchen staff spits in your food. Funny you want to take money from waiters and give it to cooks, but you don’t want any of your wages used for any form of social betterment.

I think most people would take exception with this part of the proposal: