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CMV: There should be no separate minimum wage for waiters or "tipped" employees. And tipping should not be a social "expectation" in pretty much every dining situation & other places where tips are "expected" as a given. Waiters & others should get paid a fair market wage by employers.

I don't think it's good or right to have a lower than regular minimum wage for any profession. There should just be one minimum wage in each city, regardless of job.

I think that waiters, hairdressers, valets, and other professions who have a tipping expectation should just be paid a fair market wage paid by their employers and there should be no pressure or expectation of tips from pretty much every customer.

Some tips would come every so often from customers who feel that service was particularly awesome and who will want to reward that amazing service with a tip.

As it is now, I think it's wrong toward the employee to pay them less than minimum wage before tips are factored in.

And I think it's currently wrong toward the customer to make the customer feel pressured to leave tips for just basic service that should really be part of the food or the haircut you paid for. After all, even as it is now, if I paid for food, that food should be available to me to eat it, and if I paid for a haircut, someone should be cutting my hair, yet all kinds of tipping expectations are thrown around on top of these things just for me basically getting those things that I paid for. So, take away separate minimum wage, increase the prices a little bit to provide employees a fair market wage for the job, and be done with it.

And every once in a while, when someone goes above and beyond, I can tip them, because I feel like doing it, not because of a societal pressure to do it for no reason.

The current system creates unnecessary stress and discomfort.

CMV.
gpt
There are two major problems people bring up with tipping:

* It obfuscates costs as a way to force customers to pay more without having sticker shock.
* It's bad for the employees.

The problem is, the latter isn't really true. Restaurants pay very shittily for BOH staff, but tipped positions make good money regardless. Yes, tipping has basically no effect on service quality. Yes, technically they aren't being paid a minimum wage directly by the employer. But all that said, it's still a better deal than minimum or near-minimum wage for most servers, and making an anti-tipping argument based on compensation is a wrong-headed one.