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Colin W Kingsbury wrote:
Just keep in mind that your average waitress is paid somewhere around $3/hour by the restaraunt. Thus if you don't tip, the person basically doesn't get paid. The better alternative would be to pay them fair wages in the first place. FWIW, the "system" does make some sense. First, it clearly connects pay to volume of work. On a busy night you work harder and get paid more. This is fairer to the staff and simpler for management. Easier for the management? Certainly. But fairer to the staff? No! Getting enough work is the management's job. The tipping system just puts the risk on the employees. Stefan |
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![]() "Stefan" wrote The better alternative would be to pay them fair wages in the first place. Easier for the management? Certainly. But fairer to the staff? No! Getting enough work is the management's job. The tipping system just puts the risk on the employees. Stefan True, but with the risk on the employer, he will pay wages in line with little or no education.. Where else do you know of that a high school graduate (or not) with good people skills, and a good memory (or not) can bring home over 200 bucks in 6 or 7 hours? Waiting in a good establishment, is the answer. Some nights, 200 bucks will not be brought home, but some nights a lot more. Makes taking the risk more worthwhile, don't you think?\ After seeing the kind of service you get in some European restaurants, I think tipping makes a big difference in the quality of the service. -- Jim in NC --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.802 / Virus Database: 545 - Release Date: 11/26/2004 |
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"Morgans" wrote in message
... True, but with the risk on the employer, he will pay wages in line with little or no education. Define "education". Those who make a "high income" from waiting have extensive experience in the business. They have every bit as much "education", in their field of work, as a college graduate. And there are very few people in the table waiting industry who actually make anything anyone would call a "high income". Where else do you know of that a high school graduate (or not) with good people skills, and a good memory (or not) can bring home over 200 bucks in 6 or 7 hours? All sorts of industries, including the computer industry. No, wait...I take that back. You don't need good people skills in the computer industry. Waiting in a good establishment, is the answer. Without experience, no one is going to get a job at a "good establishment". With or without a college degree. Starting wages for a waiter suck. Some nights, 200 bucks will not be brought home, but some nights a lot more. Makes taking the risk more worthwhile, don't you think?\ Plenty of people make that much money (and lots lots more) without nearly the risk. More to the point, the quantity of money that comes in isn't a direct result of the risk (as it might be in gambling large sums of money), so it makes no sense to justify the risk simply based on the chance of large sums of money. After seeing the kind of service you get in some European restaurants, I think tipping makes a big difference in the quality of the service. After seeing the kind of service I get in some American restaurants, I think tipping is a useless custom that makes no difference in the quality of the service. If tipping is such a great idea, why is it that I constantly run into lousy service in restaurants, right here in America? The answer is that quality of service has WAY more to do with how the restaurant is managed than it does with the custom of tipping. Pete |
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