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John Stossel: The War on Tipping
Reason ^ | August 1, 2018 | John Stossel

Posted on 08/03/2018 2:14:31 PM PDT by EveningStar

Union protestors and celebrity advocates have decided that waiters' tips aren't big enough...

As usual, those who want the government to decide that workers must be paid more insist that "women and minorities" are hurt by the market.

But waitress Alcieli Felipe is a minority and a woman. She says the celebrities and politicians should butt out.

Thanks to tips, Felipe says in my new internet video, she makes "$25 an hour. By the end of the year, $48,000 to $50,000."

She understands that if government raises the minimum, "It'll be harder for restaurants to keep the same amount of employees... (T)he busboy will be cut."

She's right...

(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: johnstossel; stossel; tipping
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1 posted on 08/03/2018 2:14:31 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

As I’ve stated before here, if wages for waiters are over $10 per hour (the federal level is less than $3) where I happen to be, then I simply figure that the tip is built into the price on the menu, and they will get what the bill says, and not a penny more.


2 posted on 08/03/2018 2:16:27 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: EveningStar

If waiters get $15 an hour I’m not tipping ever again


3 posted on 08/03/2018 2:18:06 PM PDT by Josa
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To: EveningStar

I’ve actually left some big tips recently for BAD waiters.

I figured they aren’t going to have that job for very long.


4 posted on 08/03/2018 2:20:46 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: EveningStar

Just say I don’t Tip .I’m a Democrat ,LOL


5 posted on 08/03/2018 2:20:53 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: EveningStar
“Forty-six percent of tipped workers nationwide rely on public benefits” like food stamps, Hallett told me.

I pointed out that many tipped workers are eligible for benefits because they don't report tip income to the government.

Why do I want to encourage people to get welfare AND my tips?? And John’s okay with this??

6 posted on 08/03/2018 2:21:11 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: butlerweave

I’m going to start doing that.


7 posted on 08/03/2018 2:21:58 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: EveningStar

You have to wonder why tipping is a supposed norm because the waitstaff isn’t being paid enough - where does it say that in society we have to help pay the wages of some servers who just take the order and deliver the food; I’ve seen tip buckets at cash registers for someone just taking your money for the food you ordered. I’d love to get 10% of each ticket holder after I’ve landed the plane - stand at the flight deck door with a bucket .....


8 posted on 08/03/2018 2:23:48 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer

I want you to know I am the guy who thanks you for your incredible service as I deplane.


9 posted on 08/03/2018 2:25:30 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Read that again. He was countering her point.


10 posted on 08/03/2018 2:26:26 PM PDT by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Thanks! I’ve met several FR’s on deplaning asking if I was Skydancer .... nice to know.


11 posted on 08/03/2018 2:27:59 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: EveningStar

I was raised with the “old fashioned notion” that TIPPING IS SOMETHING EARNED!!

Nowadays, all these damnable busybodies have made it “more the norm” for a restaurant or a restaurant delivery service website, to “gratuitously” fix a percentage on every order, prior to the amount decided to quantify the sales tax.

This precludes how the performance of your waiter/server was, and/or the condition of the meal, when ordered in house.

When I do tip, and it is warranted AND EARNED, I have always tipped 10% for breakfast; 10 or 15% for lunch, and 20% for dinner, whether the bill is $20 or $50 for me and my beloved.


12 posted on 08/03/2018 2:28:06 PM PDT by Terry L Smith (.)
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To: BobL

Waiters (to include females) are so accustomed to receiving tips that if they are cut off, the quality of their service likely will suffer, even to the extent of sabotage of food, despite receiving more in wages than many of their customers.


13 posted on 08/03/2018 2:29:13 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: MortMan

I just did, and he is countering her desire for a higher wait staff wage by saying that will make them lose welfare, and she’s okay with that, AS AM I.


14 posted on 08/03/2018 2:29:36 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: luvbach1

I guess so...they’ll have to learn to live a new lifestyle. A ‘living wage’ lifestyle.


15 posted on 08/03/2018 2:30:07 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: EveningStar

The big government people is looking at the taxes they think they will get when they force wait staff into getting a traceable income and are no longer getting tips.

About the only benefit to being a waiter at that point is the possibility of getting a free meal while on shift.


16 posted on 08/03/2018 2:30:11 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
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To: SkyDancer

The tip system is the ultimate incentive to providing good service, because they don’t get tipped if you aren’t happy.

Absent that and it just becomes a job, and a mostly terrible job at that.


17 posted on 08/03/2018 2:31:39 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
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To: SkyDancer
I’d love to get 10% of each ticket holder after I’ve landed the plane - stand at the flight deck door with a bucket .....

You might be on to something...
18 posted on 08/03/2018 2:32:19 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SkyDancer

You must be British. Or really cheap.


19 posted on 08/03/2018 2:32:37 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: ConservativeMind

She argues that they need the raise because of needing assistance. He retorts that they cheat the system to qualify.


20 posted on 08/03/2018 2:34:53 PM PDT by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention.)
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