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Subject: Re: Should the hourly wage a barback makes affect their tip out?
From: Chris Milligan
Posted: Sat Mar 26. 2011, 17:25 UTC
Followup to: "Re: Should the hourly wage a barback makes affect their tip out?"  by Dan the Melon Man  (Sat Mar 26. 2011, 03:15 UTC)
> > Quality works deems a quality tip no matter what.
> 
> Yep, I agree with you fully there.
> 
> And also with the natural corollary:
> 
>   Work that is not quality - does not deserve it.
> 
> 
> So, leaving out the idea of tips as a bonus for extra service, that 
> leaves us with the classic justification for mandatory minimum 
> tipping :
> - that service staff are institutionally underpaid, and the "service 
> charge" is required from the customer to bring them up to a fair 
> wage.
> 
> Although I'm unhappy with the cause (managers underpaying staff) I 
> find the argument justifiable.
> 
> If it was widely believed that all wait staff were paid $40 per hour 
> no matter what, do you think it would change attitudes to and amounts 
> of compulsory tipping?
> I think it would make a difference. In talking about tips, you do 
> need to take into account the base wage being earned.
> Which is why I tip less at overpriced places than I do in dives.
> 
> 
> To the OP then:
> Yes, I think that the hourly amount a worker gets would directly 
> influence their entitlement to compulsory, fixed-percentage 'tips'.
> 
> .dan.

For the sake of argument.....

If you tip less in overproiced place than a dive bar, and the hourly  wage is 
considered when tipping, do you then tip waiters more than bartenders?  
bartenders more than the head bartender?  Bartender more than the bar owner 
who syill actively works behind the bar?


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Chris 

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