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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where I live, there are plenty of restaurants with tipflation.

And then there are the worker-owned pizza joint and coffee shop, which do not even have a tip jar on the counter. They don't ask for — or make room for — tips. They pay their worker-owners well enough that they don't have to beg.

That's what tipping culture is. It's putting the worker in the position of begging from the customer instead of being assured a fair wage by the employer. And now, the management even wants to tax the receipts of this mandatory panhandling.

Now, I understand that authoritarians love this. When I was a kid, I was explicitly told that tips were necessary; otherwise the waiter might spit in your food. That is, as a child of the professional class, I was instructed that service workers must be appeased with donations to keep them from committing crimes against us.

Yeah. That's pretty messed up.

But the worker-owned venues make it clear: the restaurant doesn't need tips to attract capable & honest workers; they just need to give a fair deal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Another solution is profit sharing programs. E.g. an employee gets wage+(net income/all workers hours)*hours worked or a similar but fair formula or set of formulas.