lol that was the best part showed what slimeballs they are to the extreme , even after making insanely awful choices they just keep going about the $ lol
The looking ro both sides to make sure there isn't some one smoking a square nearby lmao. Im impressed chrissy didnt flip his whip going around that corner so fast. Master of GTFO'ING
This honestly is the saddest death for me. Dude was just trying to make a living, had a family, had clearly been a part of the restaurant for a long time judging off his age. He confronted one wrong person, and his life is over. Was likely a stand up guy, and just had his life ended so unceremoniously. He wasn’t even like the other civvies, where they knew even being associated with the mob was dangerous. He just was at the wrong place, wrong time. Always makes me upset when I see this scene. This scene, and the one where Vito whacks the guy who he runs into while on the run. Normal people who never were even with the mob, and still paid for it
Everyone in the restaurant knows that they are mobsters that guy should have never came out of the backdoor even if he was shorted on the tip... I think the saddest death is Tracee.
Unfortunately, most servers dont want this. Most servers LOVE the tipping system, especially the people over at r/kitchenconfidential. It is tax-free income. Just about no one reports it because why would they? ESPECIALLY at high-end/high-check places. I've personally known people who worked at lower-upscale restaurants ($100-200 per person) and usually leave the day with $200-300 in tips. That's a potential $200-300 per shift every paycheck completely untaxed. I couldn't imagine people who work at true upscale restaurants.
They can't have it both ways.
Either you're happy with the tipping system and you gladly play customer roulette to randomly get your untaxed freebies and never complain about cheapskates because they're (supposedly) more than compensated by the big tips; or you dislike getting screwed over and side with the normal, civilized way everybody else uses to get a consistent income that doesn't rely on people's generosity and mood.
Maybe I am too European for this, but for me this is a reason to not support this system. Everyone should pay their fair amount of taxes.
Why should anyone be entitled to a tax free income, especially if their net income is potentially higher than mine (with those higher numbers), while I have to pay tax on every dollar?
Sorry but not sorry. We need taxes to organize our society. I am not gonna tip. If you want more, raise the wages in order to make it a taxable income.
Oh you severely underestimate how much those people are making. I work a low scale ($10-20 plates)brunch spot and leave with $200-400 a day in tips in season (I also run my ass off for 9 hours straight). Anyone working any type of upscale is making much more.
The amount of business a low scale place can generate on some days is nuts but it’s also dead very very often. Upscale is more predictable, fine dining you might get a full salary plus the tips.
It is tax-free income. Just about no one reports it because why would they? ESPECIALLY at high-end/high-check places.
Its only tax-free if the tips are cash. And in high-end places especially, customers are most likely to pay electronically. Even the paedo-in-chief's new "no tax on tips" only applies to people who make enough money to itemize their deductions. federal taxes, not state and FICA.
Of course there are some winners under the current system, if it was universally bad for every server, the laws would have been changed long ago. But, the simple fact is that there is a direct correlation between poverty levels of tipped workers and subminimum tipped wages. States with the lowest subminimum wage have nearly double the number of service workers living below poverty:
poverty rates for non-tipped workers do not vary much by state tipped-wage policies. Yet for tipped workers, and particularly for waiters and bartenders, the correlation between low tipped wages and high poverty rates is dramatic. Among wait staff and bartenders, 18.0 percent are in poverty in states that follow the $2.13 subminimum wage, compared with 14.4 percent in medium-tipped-wage states and 10.2 percent in equal treatment states that do not allow for a lesser tipped minimum wage.
Connecting the dots, subminimum tipped wages make wage theft easier. Restaurant owner associations are dedicated to keeping subminimum wage laws in place, they aren't doing that out of a spirit of generosity.
Its only tax-free if the tips are cash. . . . Even the paedo-in-chief's new "no tax on tips" only applies to people who make enough money to itemize their deductions.
That's completely wrong.
The no tax on tips deduction also applies to charged tips. Source: 26 USC Section 224(d)(3). The law literally has the word "charged."
Someone does not need to itemize to claim the no tax on tips deduction. Source: 26 USC Section 63(b). The title of the subsection is literally "Individuals who do not itemize their deductions"
Please check my citations to the actual tax code before telling me I'm wrong.
Its not just an "every other country does it". American food prices arent even cheaper than most other countries that include a service charge, it would still straight up be an extra charge to line the pockets of the owners. This is just a system made for people to get exploited, but americans are complicit with it because the ones who get good tips off guilt tripping their fellow working class citizens benefit from it
The biggest supporters of tipping system are not business owners that get away with paying below minimum wage, it’s the extremely few servers making a ton in tips that in the past didn’t even get reported on taxes.
My ex 10 years ago was a bartender, barely finished high school, above average looks and extremely good at flirting. In 2014 in a MCOL city in US, she was taking home $90k/year. I was about to graduate from uni with $100k in loans and hoping 80hr/weeks in investment banking would get me $90-120k first year.
When there were rumors that the state could mandate restaurants pay standard hourly pay and remove tips from the model, she threatened to quit if it goes through.
Next time you’re curious, search Hooters tips on TikTok. These girls thoroughly enjoy bragging about it.
When I worked in kitchens, the owners had to institute a rule that the servers weren't allowed to cash out where kitchen staff could see because they were regularly bringing home more in one shift then the kitchen staff were making the entire week and the kitchen staff were getting pissed.
When they flirt with you- that’s the signal for you to solicit. You can say something like “Could I get an order of rawdog?” which is code for “I would like to procure your services.”
Any tips left with a credit card or debit card get tagged to your payroll. There is no hiding any of that. It's only for cash tips where you can potentially hide it from Uncle Sam.
Still got some audacity to complain about it to the customer. I’ve gotten some shitty tips and no tips but I’ve never once considered confronting the customer about it
Yeah, you shouldnt really bother with petty revenge unless its really *satisfying* petty revenge. Someone leaves a shit tip? Bitch about it in the kitchen and go back to work. Someone leaves a shit tip while streaming to hundreds of people? Make damn sure all their viewers knows they are a cheapskate.
Fuck that. If I've gotta work a shit ass job while these "people" come in and livestream me doing my job to make money for themselves, then im absolutely calling them out if they leave a shit tip.
Service industry is just weird with it too. The expectation is to get a tip around 20% of the bill total (if everything was good) but it doesn’t always reflect the amount of work being done.
Like a family of 4 that spends $100+ is usually pretty chill and you get an easy $20 or so. It’s always the tables where it’s like 8 people who all want separate checks that require the most work and don’t ever tip well. (Pretty much always teenagers and college students)
When you have a shit night as a server you wish your pay wasn’t based on tips but when you have a good night easily making over $25/hr because of tips it’s all good. Because you know the restaurant would only pay you like $18/hr at most.
That's just the polite way of saying "you didn't tip enough". Everyone knows this. She possibly even knew she was streaming and wanted to call her out to her viewers.
Edit: it seems like people are misinterpreting this as me taking the streamer's side. Usual reddit reading comprehension. All I was saying was she was definitely politely complaining about the shit tip.
That's not necessarily true, I had a front of house manager who would, in good faith, go ask tables that had tipped extremely poorly if something had happened unbeknownst to the waiting staff and if it could be remedied.
If they could point to some mishaps, the manager could apologize and try to fix the situation, if nothing had happened the client would rightfully feel ashamed and be less likely to come back, so win win.
Thank you!! I can tell half the people in these comments have never worked in the service industry! While I do totally see how this can be interpreted by someone who is NOT in the industry as a 'polite' way to go about asking for a better tip... it's not that at all. Managers will look at how well you are tipped as a means of performance review. If you are tipped poorly, usually it's because of bad service. Not sure how people aren't connecting the dots here.
Wendy accused him of hating women when he said NinaLin shouldn’t steal from stores. And I guess her tipping 5 bucks to her waitress shows she isn’t supporting women.
I dunno, they seem to live off the stuff. Pointing out the hypocrisy of others and then painting themselves a victim when their own hypocrisy is noticed. Streamers are what happens when the average Redditor gets a platform
Once you’ve worked a tip job you always tip well unless the service is shit. At least I do and I know many others who do the same. I don’t like the system but it’s what we’ve got
Ya I understand people don’t like tipping culture but that is the system we live in but if you cheap out or don’t tip and you’re an extra kind of special when you yourself get tips all day.
If you don’t like tipping then don’t use those services that rely on them you just screw over the little guy while supporting the owners that make all the money from this system.
This should be top comment. If you are rich then you should be tipping REALLY well. I’m sick of celebs/streamers/etc getting a pass because they’re ‘rich’
I was to a place in Munich once. Apparently a more fancy-ish place, whatever. Well, I met there with my friend right after my uni lectures finished, and I was super thirsty because I didn't have any water on me before my friend gave me her water bottle to drink from. When the waiter saw me take a sip from my water bottle she was like "Emmm it's not polite to drink your own drink in a restaurant" and I replied "Oh no, don't worry, I will get an ice tea with my food, I was just super thirsty for some water right now". After which she replied "It's just thaaat.. You know if everyone drank their own drinks at restaurants wE wOuLd bE oUt oF bUsInEsS" and gave the fakest smile I've ever seen. I was so annoyed. I thought to myself: "No girl, your expensive ass restaurant will be just fine.." Btw she was around our age, 20 - 30 yrs old.
I ordered ice tea. I ordered pizza. The pizza was pretty mid, but expensive. I gave like 4 x 20€ bills I think, paying for me and my friend. But the total was not 80€, the total was like 75€ or something. So I expected to get some change back, but the bitch didn't return anything and basically took her own tip..
I was so appalled at that point.. I heard that Munich has a bit of a tipping culture.. But to take your own tip, after being a bitch the entire time, is just ... Who do you think you are? Where I'm from that would not slide.. idk..
I heard the same about EU tipping and how they don't expect tips but if you say anything in English they ask you if you want to add a tip to your bill. It's kinda ridiculous but whatever, I'm used to tipping being from the US. Crazy that lady just stole your change
I'm not the most traveled person in the world, so this could be completely anecdotal, but I've traveled to 7 different countries, and 10 major cities across those 7, and not once as a very obvious English speaking American (pretending to be Canadian) have I ever been asked for a tip. They bring me the card machine, I tap my card on it, that's the end of our interaction.
There's a very real chance anyone experiencing that are going to establishments that are very specifically for American tourists. The kinda place that's scamming you on menu price regardless. If you're being asked for a tip in Europe, you know you're at a place whose target demographic is American tourists. I could be wrong. Just my guess.
Hopefully her low IQ fans / viewers who think this is OK start doing it to her
Half of the Reddit autists in this thread who go out to eat twice a year are doing the "employer should pay them more, not my problem, I can make the food myself at home" bit, so I imagine they will twist the logic however they need to in order to justify tipping a streamer to say their name out loud.
Honestly true if she’s being put on a livestream, regardless of tipping culture and what not, that server is being used for monetized gain and was compensated $5 for it. That woman didn’t go to work today saying fuck it I’ll be on a stream for $5 today. She’s not owed money because she was a server she’s owed money because she had a camera on her without consent at a private establishment that did not protect her rights for a monetized purpose that would both benefit the streamer and establishment.
I'm not even remotely rich, don't live in a country where people live off tips and tip at least double this at restaurants. Wrong people have all the money, as usual.
A reminder to you all: these streamers get money tips online for streaming, but don’t show anything back in places like this. I don’t agree with tipping culture (and it’s starting to invade restaurants in the UK) but the streamers should be self-aware of it.
It’s more stupid if you consider that the negative news generated by this cost more than the 5 dollar tip and likely would have made more money if higher tip from positive response
When your pay relies on tips to be livable you have every right to investigate what you did wrong for the tip to be so low. The waitress wasn't rude when asking either and accepted the answer without any qualms.
These fucking streamers film everyone around them (including ppl at their jobs) for online donations. And to only tip $5 for a $250 bill is disgusting behavior.
When I go home to Vietnam and come back to Canada it makes me realize how messed up tipping is here. In Vietnam if you tip I've had them refuse to accept it or return it.
Tipping in general should be removed from society. You should be able to have a consistently livable and reliable wage without having to rely on random people throwing you few extra dollars on the side every now and then.
Anyone saying they would complain, I doubt the restaurant would want you to come back anyway. Thats why they are chasing them out to call them on being tacky as fuck leaving a $5 on a $250 bill when there was nothing wrong with the service, 2% tip is crazy.
These same streamers are essentially working for tips, you think they would undertstand tipping culture.
Servers when they take a job that pays nothing then complaining they aren’t getting given free money from customers . America is so cooked just stop the tipping and start paying correctly
Servers are paid a regular wage. It’s not enough, but it’s regular. Tips are on top of that wage. No servers are making below minimum wage, that would be illegal.
I can't wait for the day humanity finally realizes that tipping as part of the main compensation for these kinds of jobs is a bad idea. Just pay your employees a decent hourly wage.
When I worked at McDonalds years ago, my supervisor was a part time waiter for a semi-classy restaurant and made waayy more money serving a couple of rich folks than I did flipping burgers on Christmas Eve.
Tipping is such a weird thing. It’s like “yeah I did my job give me 20$” instead of the establishment actually paying people for doing their job a liveable amount
It was just one simple question, and the waitress asked politely enough and created no further fuss. Who knows, the manager genuinely could have wanted feedback to know if they had received bad service so he could prevent that happening in the future?
There are far worse examples of "tipping gone wrong", but we're supposed to be up in arms about this relatively tame one just because it happened to streamers?
It's such a bizarre concept that you'd be expected to pay for what you've purchased/ordered and then pay an optional (but not really optional) fee on top of that to essentially make up for the servers being underpaid. Obviously the employers are very happy about this because it preserves the status quo. Nothing to see here, the system works perfectly fine...
Tipping is a fucking joke and it needs to be stopped in this country your boss is the one not paying you not the customer it isn’t my job to pay your damn wage
This is a common misconception. It's the staff themselves that want to keep tipping culture because many make way more than a regular salary. There have been restaurants that have tried no tipping and ended up going back to tips because staff did not want to work there.
confronting customers for shitty tips is never the play. but if they're a streamer streaming put them on blast as much as possible. no excuses not to tip if you gonna be filming.
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