Pros And Cons Of Tipping

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Tipping is an outdated way to allow a business to not pay employees a consistent fair wage. Group pressure and situational pressure push this idea that you must tip and it is the wrong thing to do otherwise. Tipping is not only what pushes our wait staff into poverty, but what helps them get there. The restaurants are in the long run not even gaining as much as they are losing, and in most restaurants are only there as a staple of the past. With low employee job satisfaction and low inconsistent pay, the cost for re-training and hiring new employees often outweighs the cost of giving the wait staff a proper consistent pay. Tipping also breeds a dichotomy between the wait staff and the customers that is unhealthy, with the wait staff doing

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