Im having beers at bar ordered wings and tipped $2 everything the bartender brings me.

Beer = $6

tip for beer $2

wings = $20ish

Tip for wings from bartender = $2

Total tips = $4

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Same order from waitress/er = $26

Tip = $5.20

Now I know this is micro example but extrapolate this over several drinks with food and the difference swings the other way. The question remains tho, am I tipping correctly?

  • @AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world
    2•14 hours ago

    You should honestly stop going out at all, the person who is broken post covid is you. You’re taking it out on random wait staff you are choosing to patronize. Make your food yourself, drink your drinks at home, then the only person you’re making miserable is the person in the mirror.

    • @Squizzy@lemmy.world
      0•13 hours ago

      You left out the part that is actually being tipped for, bringing the food to you. The chefs are salary.

      People should be able to go out and buy thenfood at the prices listed.

      • @AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world
        3•12 hours ago

        Agreed, the entire system of tipping the American way should be fucking illegal. Wait staff should earn a living wage. I think it’s way more complicated than that, and you see pushback from the owners and the servers, and any movements to change it haven’t had enough backing socially to change anything.

        But that’s kinda how it works, you choose to engage with it by going to an establishment with enployees that rely on tips. I mean hell, most of the time if you have a bad experience it’s due to something the waiter can’t control. Kitchen issues, staffing levels, poorly handled rushes. Being gleeful about how little you tip because of how things have changed… just don’t go out. Avoid having a shitty experience and being a shitty experience for someone else.

      • sunzu2
        -1•13 hours ago

        Note that a lot of places tips don’t go directly to wait stuff, it is being shared to subsidize salaries of everyone. Sometimes even boss man takes a cut.

        If your tip is being taxed, thats guaranteed what is happening.

        • @Squizzy@lemmy.world
          1•5 hours ago

          Pretty sure the boss cant take tips legally speaking. Tax the income, let the business survive based on its ability to cover its costs.