We dug into how American tipping culture got so broken, and the fight to fix it.
It turns out that your tips are subsidizing the payrolls of multi-billion dollar chains, while they pay their workers under minimum wage.
It’s a system rooted in slavery, and pushed by a wealthy restaurant owners onto the rest of us.
But there’s a growing movement to change it.
I think a minimum tip is a great idea.
Well, ideally employers just pay enough so it isn’t pushed onto customers.
Are you an actual idiot? How about the companies pay their employees instead of avoiding taxes like they do today?
Maybe even just call it a service charge like other places in the world.