"I don't tip."

[Lordquinton]

142. CA represent!

These threads miss the point completely, it's not our duty to pay the staff, it's the employer's duty to pay them. I usually tip a bit extra because I usually stay long, or play card games or something not on the menu, plus it makes them like you, but it is so backwards and wrong to say it's my duty to pay the staff because their employers can't be bothered to do it. Also irritates me that people in some states assume it's universal and say I'm bad for only tipping 10% or some such.

I never spat in rude people's books when I worked at a book store, I treated everyone with a base line of respect regardless of how they treated me, and we were forbidden to receive tips.

This also completely shoots down that already worthless argument of the Libertarians that the minimum wage is what is keeping wages low, if it's lower, then the employers pay even less, we have solid proof in the restraunt business.

Also to add: If everyone who "couldn't afford to eat out" stopped eating out, then the waitstaff would probably end up unemployed.