I still find the entire idea of tipping to be super silly. Those people are being paid to do their jobs,and you leave them tips if they do them well? Why? I understand that in the US waiters are paid less because they also get tips,but that entire system is wrong(in my personal opinion) - you are going to a restaurant, you should be paying exactly what it says in the menu, not more,not less.
The system of tipping in the US is used to skirt around minimum wage laws and to push the cost of labor onto the customer, which makes eating out at restaurants seem deceptively cheaper than in other countries.
And the servers are often happy with this arrangement, because unlike a higher wage, the cash tips are rarely correctly reported as income and thus perceived as tax-free. Other than the damage to rule-of-law and personal integrity, everyone wins!
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I still find the entire idea of tipping to be super silly. Those people are being paid to do their jobs,and you leave them tips if they do them well? Why? I understand that in the US waiters are paid less because they also get tips,but that entire system is wrong(in my personal opinion) - you are going to a restaurant, you should be paying exactly what it says in the menu, not more,not less.
The system of tipping in the US is used to skirt around minimum wage laws and to push the cost of labor onto the customer, which makes eating out at restaurants seem deceptively cheaper than in other countries.
And the servers are often happy with this arrangement, because unlike a higher wage, the cash tips are rarely correctly reported as income and thus perceived as tax-free. Other than the damage to rule-of-law and personal integrity, everyone wins!
The cost of labor is always pushed into the client. The only difference is that tips aren't added to the price, or fixed.