I hate tipping. Employees should be paid by their employer. The total price of an item should be listed, including the sales taxes. It would eliminate any misunderstandings about the cost of something.

I worked in the service industry for 13 years in racist Chicago and made great money in tips because I came to work every shift and did my job well. You know who tipped POORLY and treated me like sht the most? People who look like me.

There are etiquette books with instructions on how to tip from the 17 & 1800s. Mostly from England and France (gratuité/ gratuity) It was a "cutesy" way to say 'how to bribe staff for better service.'

I don’t tip. I’m not obligated to tip. Nobody is forcing me to tip. I’m not responsible for your choice of work, as well as I am not responsible for government discrimination.

This video apply to that old days. All receipts comes with “how much you will tip 17-25%. Now tipping is a rule and minimum 10-15 dollar per table serve a server sometimes have 2-6 tables. Do math. Restaurant now sometimes divide tips between more employees because they collect enough tips for it. Tipping should be a choice and employees should earn what is accordingly and be tipped by its talent to do the job

How does this affect Flight Attendants, who are under the outdated rules of the 1936 Railroad Labor Act, and are paid nothing (as in $0.00) while checking in to work, preparing the cabin, boarding, cleaning and deplaning the plane?

The idea of tips is so American. If you do good you get paid good but not from your actual employer lol. Wtf. Tipping sucks all around too. I hate having to calculate tips at the end already spending so much money of course I gotta tip good because I'm obligated to pay someone's salary.

I wonder if an American goes to Japan and eats in a nice restaurant and they try to tip. If they do that they are insulting the waiter. But in America and Canada tipping is sexist but mainly based on racism.

Man, I don't know what to do. On one hand I want to continue the racist tradition, but on the other I do not want to tip them blacks.

New Zealand here.we don’t have tipping in our culture but I’m interested in what is the best approach to this insidious, unfair practise being exported by way of, for example, cruise ships which adopt the culture. We all know (or should, if we think about it and do the maths) that there are far better ways of negotiating a fair income for hard working, lowly paid staff but the question arises: how do those of us in non-tipping cultures (e.g. New Zealand, Iceland, Australia to name but a few) best support and develop tactics to stop the inroads from U.S. companies introducing the practise by stealth?

when I was a kid I thought tipping was humiliating to the receiver it's almost like saying u poor thing heres a dollar for ur bad life. I think the employer has to incorporate the waiters salary into the cost of the meal. so for instance if the hamburger would cost 5 now it should cost 6.50 and that way no tipping happens.

The service industry is very hard to work in... 😪 people don't want to tip and tell you to get a real job but at the end of the day (on good days) tips paid my bills and helped put me through college

$15/hr isn't enough anymore. It would have ten years ago, but not anymore.

The prevailing argument against minimum wage for restaurant servers is that the restaurants couldn't afford it. Please remember two things: 1. Most of Europe pays their restaurant servers minimum wage and there are PLENTY of restaurants doing just fine (they just add the gratuity into the check and everyone knows this.... it's on the receipt) in fact, in some countries, tipping is an insult AND 2. Any business that cannot survive while paying the very people they require to operate a living wage, doesn't deserve to stay in business.

being from the uk my tips based purely on workers attitude

Livelihoods are the capabilities, assets and activities required for people to earn money and secure a means of living. The biggest lie in this area is that our JOB is our livelihoods, it's not, it's more. If we are taking our ACTIVITIES and purchase LIABILITIES INSTEAD of assets, that is not anyone's fault but our own.

One big point that was scattered throughout the video, which is a big issue today, is called Intersectionality. This is an incredibly unfair thing that happens a lot, and worth looking into.

If people aren't happy with what they are making, they can get another job or go back to school to better themselves. We all have choices.

Thank you

The minimum is rooted in racism from white labour unions

It’s crazy. How in 2021 this system works great.

tipping Option or Choice fine; Forcing customers to donate instead of being paid real wages?

There was a time when you made money in tips and earned a great income. today in 2022 - Tips offer nothing for a persons future, Nothing paid into Social Security leaving the person with nothing to retire on . The tipped worker loses . NJ has new labor laws yet many restaurants, bars and diners do not pay properly.. if serving - they work on $5.75 an hour plus tips. However, if they are answering phones, folding napkins, helping out in the kitchen, - they are supposed to be paid the minimum wage of $14.00 hour - ! Advise the owner of this - they flip out and tell you to leave ! Many servers do not know this law.. including paid time off and vacation time at $14.00 hour. This also applies to salon workers .. many brag about all that cash they earned, but at age 65, they have nothing in their accounts - then have to go to social services to offer housing, food, transportation and many other services - paid for by the tax payers, to pay for someone's poor planning ? The Tipped wage workers are still slave labors - that needs to end in the US.

6:20 😂 I mean, if they left that attitude at home they probably wouldn’t have as much problem ultimately

Glass is half empty

It's discrimination against low skilled workers it's no living wage bill.

Just to clear it up, Saru Jayaraman said this was against Blacks and Women. Well I guess I can understand that, in America they would have the White water fountain and the black water fountain, and then the HORSE trough for Mexican. I can understand why you wouldn't include the people WHOSE LAND YOU STOLE!!!! That makes sense low wages are a black and woman thing, got it!

Hahaha she said today bagged!!!! No shit lady

😢😢 wow

This idea that tipping came about because former slaves were exploited by white bosses after emancipation, is utterly false. This idea is a result of one person's sloppy research cherry picking a few facts from an amateur social historian's book on the history of tipping, and viewing the past through modern lenses. The Pullman Company did hire a few former slaves to work for tips on the railroads, but they never had more than 20,000 porters working for them at their height. Factors ignored by this poor attempt to rewrite history include, the prevalence of black women working in non tipping domestic jobs right up to the Great Depression, the role of Prohibition in popularizing tipping at a time when restaurants were struggling, and the roll of Unionization in keeping Blacks out of manufacturing jobs. (Here it was workers afraid of losing their jobs to Blacks, not white bosses who didn't want to hire them.) Finally almost all tipped jobs were in the economically rich Northern cities, where a huge influx of European immigrants familiar with the European tipping system were entering service trades. The economically impoverished rural South could not support restaurants or hotels. And yet that is where the Black population of America stayed until the Great Migration north, starting in 1910 but really en mass through the 1930s when Jim Crow and Neo-Slavery where making life intolerable. News of manufacturing jobs out West and in the North spread to Southern Black communities thanks to the network of the Pullman Porters. Yes there are a great many articles attributing tipping as a legacy of slavery, but they all hinge on a single person's sloppy research. Also minimum wage legislation was embedded to prevent the abuses of women and children working in sweatshops. Minimum wage legislation was originally deemed unconstitutional, but FDR threatened to expand and pack the Supreme Court with liberal judges. Minimum wage legislation excluded service jobs because they were not engaged in cross state production. it was only in the 1960s, that service jobs got a minimum wage and it was set at 50% the national minimum wage because they made tips. The NRA was originally set up to help negotiate fair food prices for their members. that's why the were headquartered in Chicago, where food distribution was centered. it was until they relocated to Washington in the 1980s that they became active in lobbying government. Herman Caine was had of the NRA when they successful froze minimum wage for tipped workers sat $2.13 in 1993. How anyone can claim there is straight line from from slavery to this 1993 amendment to labor law is beyond me. Tipping is certainly racist, but not especially so, and not because of some tenuous link to the specter of slavery.

Here’s the deal. We have now have a tipping culture because of people who don’t tip? Why?? It’s simple. If restaurants are required to pay their workers 15.00 an hour instead of 2.13 an hour restaurants will be forced to raise their prices. Remember most restaurants are not owned by millionaires and most of them 90% of restaurants fail so let’s go back to non tippers. Why don’t they tip? The logical Reason is because they don’t want to pay more and if they want to pay more then most of them would not go out to eat anymore because it’s too expensive, therefore people lose their jobs and restaurants fail. My proposal is to pay them the 7.25 federal minimum plus tips and they make the minimum 7.25 regardless how much they get tipped. I don’t think that would hurt restaurants too much

Fact is, the employer should be paying their workers!!!

Based on your presentation, I'll quit tipping, because its racist.

Thank you 😊for sharing this information 🙏on the history of tipping.

NRA member here. Ya the other NRA.

Here’s the thing I don’t understand if you’ve got $10 and you want to buy yourself dinner you can’t just spend your $10 on a $10 pizza you have to find some more money to pay for the person who brought your pizza to the table m. Why cant I just walk up to the kitchen and grab my own pizza and avoid the charge? I’ll wipe my own table and get my own water if I can’t afford to pay 12$ for my 10$ pizza? Do I miss out on y dinner cos I can’t pay a waitress? Why do I pay the waitress? I’m paying for pizza not wiping and walking. I think if I lived in America I would not eat out because of being forced to pay the wages of someone doing a job that I could do myself - why does it come down to us walking up to the counter to get our pizza ourselves or miss out on it totally.

So, is this why some poc don't tip well?

Bahahahhahaha

no tips , include excursions tips taxes in prices

So what? It isn't in the US now. A good server makes a lot more than minimum wage. A lot more.

Doesn't sound like u ever worked for tips? At the pizzeria I worked, waitresses make at least, I said "at least," double the minimum wage. I delivered pizza for years, and I made on average $5 more an hour than the next guy working at McDonalds. What u need to be complaining about is how these businesses are making workers declare their credit card tips to the taxman.

What do you care? You people never tip, anyway.

You must think tipping is racist because black people don’t tip. I do love your Canadian dress though

Tip should be extra not youe wage

Time to educate America.

Ohhkaaay. What ever helps you sleep at night in order to justify why blacks dont tip😂

I’m going to start writing “none, tipping is racist” on the check

If the government focus on education for all people, you wouldn't have to worry about raising the minimum wage because people would not stay at minimum wage jobs for the rest of their lives. America suffers because we create a system to make sure that certain groups don't surpass otherefore something has to suffer. Unfortunately I believe America has reached its Zenith and it's About to fall apart because of its Greed and how it treats its citizens throughout history as well as people in Seoul called 3rd world countries.

You're guaranteed at least the national minimum wage. If you don't surpass that per hour you can file for recompense to bring you up to min. But I totally agree that tipping is archaic and absurd for other reasons. Here's a tip: Get out of the hospitality industry, it's yucky on many levels

Tipping encourages great service, it's also a way for people to say "THANK YOU." In Ancient Rome, sometimes a slave might deliver an invitation, and he might get a copper ass (a coin). Some slaves saved those coins and ended up buying their freedom, others gambled it. Slavery is wrong, but showing gratitude by tipping is RIGHT.

I’ll take a 2.13 minimum tipped job over a minimum wage job any day of the week. Most people working tipped jobs make way more than minimum wage. Some of the stuff in this video is just dumb

Thanks you so much for the knowledge. Just learned about the racial element in America for tipping and that is so f*ckd and sad. Me personally, I never thought tipping to be a good system; not that I don't wanna compensate good service but because it seems to me an excuse for employers to not pay their workers properly. Also in Europe, from my experience, tipping is not really a thing like in the US, where it's a social pressure thing like oh u don't tip? u r a bad person blah blah... its silly. In fact, I saw often in Europe, servers would become offended when someone tipped them, seeing it as like 'I don't need your pity money, I make my own' type of vibe. And that to me is the appropriate vibe, but you have to pay your employees what they deserve first, so I'm all for that. I think all Americans would benefit from legislation being passed to ensure adequate compensation for labor: employers and employees alike.

Democrats annoy me, cause at least conservatives wear thier racism plainly, we gotta fight fir the change we want!

Can you do a video that explains why the black population tends to tip the least?

I was a waiter from age 16 to 25. I made more than minimum wage. My check was a joke but I didn’t work for the check I worked for tips. Nobody is forcing you to be a server. If you’re good at it then do it. If not, find another job.

Some of yall in this comment section do not have much perspective, thank you for making this content !!

've always said mimuim wage should ALSO based on years worked at the same job but I am not ok with a huge increase in base pay. 15 $ an hour to work at a fast food restaurant is ridiculous. You devalue my job I went to school for and my saving when you ask for a pay like that.

From medieval feudal serfdom Europe. 🏰 I’m shocked. JUST KIDDING!

Thank you for educating me. I will not be tipping anymore. I don't want to be considered a racist. And to think I have tipped so many people, some being POC. I would die if anyone thought I was a racist.

absolutely correct i salute...

Lord Jesus help her lol smh

I'm sure waitresses will be very happy when they get $15/hour instead of $45-$60/hour that they make on tips. The angry women in the video are so busy being victims they forgot to learn basic math.

"Disparity does not equal discrimination" - Thomas Sowell. Next time you want to make a point, maybe don't choose two activists who deliberately ignore the details of how minimum wage works. Also, minimum wage is the most racist law in the book and has held back black communities.

Yes tipped workers get paid less from their employer because most of their incomes comes from tips also she is ignoring that the porters did get paid when they where hired to work on the trains

This is great - if I get a black waiter or waitress from now on, I will not tip...gosh, I don't want to be racist!

Only the laziest of people would produce this type of rhetoric.

Wakes up: ahh! The sunlight is racist! The urge to drink some water is racist! Need to eat some food, that’s so racist! Gotta take a shower, racist! I need to out on clothes, racist! Racism everywhere! You should be ashamed of yourself and your lies.

Just look at you 🤣

All of the people that complain about tipping being racist are the ones who do not tip in the first place. Nowadays every where you pay by credit card they assume you want to leave a tip. Guess tipping is not so racist anymore.

tipping is form a gratitude you guys sound like you both broke . Become more a giver and universe will give back to you

just wastched fox news about this root . watch out

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That doesn’t make tipping racist .. lmfao

Are you trying to make black people feel better about not leaving a tip. They don’t seem very bothered by it to begin with

False

Ok so since I work for tips at a black female owed restaurant, my employer is raciest. Got it.

Tipping is raaacciiiisssstt...lol The people that say this are the lazy ones that aren't worth the $2.13

White people work/worked for tips too. Same with Asians and Latinos. Some real hard cherry picking going on here. I think this is just an excuse to not tip!

Ahhh the American African. Violent, racist, professional full time victims at every turn on every occasion yet zero personal responsibility ever

Wahhhh! Cryharder..I e done every job in the food service industry and even BLACK waitstaff DO NOT wanna wait on black patrons cause they are rude, don’t tip and always want something for free..facts.