Pros And Cons Of Tipping

Tipping is an outdated way to allow a business to not pay employees a consistent fair wage. Group pressure and situational pressure push this idea that you must tip and it is the wrong thing to do otherwise. Tipping is not only what pushes our wait staff into poverty, but what helps them get there. The restaurants are in the long run not even gaining as much as they are losing, and in most restaurants are only there as a staple of the past. With low employee job satisfaction and low inconsistent pay, the cost for re-training and hiring new employees often outweighs the cost of giving the wait staff a proper consistent pay. Tipping also breeds a dichotomy between the wait staff and the customers that is unhealthy, with the wait staff doing

all they can to earn bigger tips, it often causes problems between the wait staff and the customers such as upselling or the customers discriminating and harassing wait staff. This also goes to push to the point of wait staff being critical of themselves or building animosity toward customers on how much they are tipped, when in fact, the majority of tipping is entirely random, and has nothing to do with the service received. When customers are in that group of people paying or in the situation of a restaurant that pays the employees so poorly, they become nearly forced to tip, feeling as if they are personally harming their waiter/waitress if they do not tip that “recommended” amount. When truly it should not and is not in any other profession your responsibility to pay that employee a fair and livable wage.