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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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

something that's always bothered me when I see this brought up, but what's stopping the businesses from managing all that for their employees themselves? it's not like everyone doesn't have the tech to find out gas prices around the area, and the estimated traffic distance and travel time on any map view. Hell, just tack that on as a service fee instead of the ¯\(ツ)/¯ they currently use it for.

this is all rhetorical, because of course it's obvious why businesses don't want to be more upfront about the final cost to the consumer, and keeping the employee blaming the customer for their bad take-home pay