Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Waitress Fired for Refusing to Share Big Tip w/Co-Workers" video.

@zappyeats2579 Yes and traditionally you don't tip them anyways as they get a piece of the action by virtue of being the owner. There's a word for tipping the owner, bribe.
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@teraxe I spent a couple living overseas and there were no tips and no sales tax. It was actually pretty amazing, the locals made up for that simplicity by having a bunch of bargaining, but I got used to that. Now that I'm back in a place with tipping and sales tax, it seems really strange, even years later. Bargaining over the price just seems so much more honest than being shown a fake price that's off by as much as a third due to sales tax and tipping.
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@LeadSlinger48 Here in WA, you are correct, no company can legally pay people less than the minimum wage, even if tips lift the wage up to or above our minimum wage. I still hate tipping as even at minimum wage, the wages are typically lower than they should be for the work that's being done, but there's not many options for those of us without much money other than to not go out at all.
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It a shame how many restaurants lie about things like that. So often you see a delivery fee attached to a delivery order, but most of the time they don't bother to mention that the money doesn't go to the person doing the delivery. In a round about way, it might, but it goes to the restaurant and the tip money goes to the driver.
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Your tip should be based upon the fact that these people should make a decent living. The whole idea of tipping based on anything else is antiquated and exploitative. Around here, they do get minimum wage plus tips, but in so many areas it's a tiny hourly figure and the tips don't even really kick in until they hit the federal minimum wage. Perhaps in some areas people are making decent money and the tips are a genuine gratuity, but in most cases that's not the case, the tips are an essential part of their income that has been left to the customers to pay directly. This is especially true right now, when the servers may well be going into the kitchen to prepare portions of the meal.
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Perhaps, but on the other hand, it would absolutely suck to see somebody else getting that kind of a tip when you're not necessarily working any less hard. These kinds of things can really breed jealousy like nothing else.
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