dedalvs:

e-wifey:

babygirl-zach:

highlitemami:

ithelpstodream:

The history behind tipping is racist.

Interesting but not surprising. As a server/bartender, I know the drill.

i been knew the tipping system was fukced but i never knew the history behind it jfc

I always knew bout the severe wage discrepancy if you were a tipped worker but damn

In effect, the general population is subsidizing wait staff’s salaries. The government and individual business owners are saying, “We expect customers to pay more than 50% of your salary directly, so we’re not increasing your wages”. Republicans like this, because it’s voluntary. So the wealthy can still go to restaurants and not tip if they feel like it—despite the fact that tipping is actually factored into wait staff’s living wage. They expect everyone else to pick up the tab—and we do.

The answer, of course, is not to stop tipping (that only hurts the ones we want to help), but to spread this info far and wide and get behind legislative change. Put pressure on businesses to get behind that legislation, as well, since Congress listens to businesses first, citizens second. At the very, VERY least wait staff should be able to make the actual federal minimum wage. It should go without saying, yet a hundred years later, here we are… Disgusting.