Yeah I think that’s an anti-worker stereotype used to characterize workers as greedy, violent, and spiteful.

Most of the people in foodservice i’ve known ended up there because they love food. They enjoy handing someone a great meal or suggesting the perfect cocktail to pair with a dish. They aren’t going to ruin someone’s food like that because they genuinely care about their profession and craft.

I’d gladly swap if I got an actually livable wage.

Serving is far from the worst thing i’ve done for $20/hr. The problem is that ‘eliminating tipping’ means i’d make $7-12 per hour, which wouldn’t even pay rent.

I’d second this question - I use a lot of bancamp and so far it seems pretty ai-free

It’s industry standard as far as i’m aware.

Why is it an either/or? Do both.

As someone from the US: we all know what the military is up to and most of us would never join it willingly.

I’m not saying anyone who joins is evil but I am saying they’re some combination of evil, naive, desperate, and brainwashed, and definitely not representative of the average us worker.

Changing your economic habits can and does work. It’s just difficult, so people would rather not do it.

But yes, also vote, campaign, protest, etc.

On paper, yes. That’s how it works. Although let’s not pretend that minimum wage is actually a livable wage.

In practice, most employers have a policy that reads something like “we assume you’ve made enough in tips to hit minimum wage, if you don’t, please inform your manager.” Not only does this put the onus of enforcing the rule on employees, it also makes it easier for the restaraunt to say “you’re the only one having this problem, so you must be bad at your job” (when the reality is that no one else reports it for fear of disciplinary action).

Well start with “places that pay a fair wage.” At least there, you can feel better about not tipping, or tipping solely based on service quality. Obviously any restaraunt will still let you tip if you want to, why would they stop you?

Yes, it’ll be hard to stick to only those places. It will limit where you can go and you’ll have to do research before going someplace new. But doesn’t any meaningful action require effort?

I’d much prefer a stable, livable wage over recieving tips.

The problem is that no one is making a livable wage. At least as a server, there’s (on average) a pretty direct correlation between skill & effort and your income, so a decent server is probably making enough to live on. If you’re working retail, you’re barely making enough to survive on even as a low level manager.

Exactly! Don’t like paying tips? Stop eating at those establishments.

Absolutely!

But the people who say “just don’t tip” aren’t fixing anything.

If anything you should boycott the restaraunt.

Right???

We tear the whole thing down and start fresh. Outside of that, nothing changes.

Better if you specifically train them to understand you

Who says I’m “judging” it? I’m just providing helpful information. Besides, it may have been made a long time ago, but it was posted now.

More than likely not true. Dogs may not understand everything we say, but they do understand a good deal more than just their names.

I like the propoganda explanation

You know what? Fair enough

Hitler wasn’t vegan tho