Can anyone come up with some logical, well thought out, reasons why tipping should be continued in t

I will say that it is not my intention to hurt anyone, or give them less income. Food servers are allowed in many cases to pay less taxes than others, earing the same as them. The Las Vegas standard was that you claimed 9% of what was sold; however generally the tips amounted to far more than that.

I%26#039;ve heard the excuse that service would suffer, but I find that difficult to accept as a legitmate reason for tipping. Clerk%26#039;s aren%26#039;t tipped at K-Mart, and if they don%26#039;t do their job, they lose their job. Government clerks are not supposed to be tipped, that is called bribery and punishable by law.

I checked the unemployment rate today for June 2007. It stands at approximately 4.5% overall. Whites at 4 %, Hispanics at 5.7 % and Blacks at 8.5%. So, I think if a lot of existing food servers didn%26#039;t like being paid a just wage, and stomped off the job, there are a few in the wings waiting to take their places.

Can anyone enlighten me as to why we tip?

Can anyone come up with some logical, well thought out, reasons why tipping should be continued in the US?va loan

http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/wages/wages...

%26quot;A tipped employee engages in an occupation in which he or she customarily and regularly receives more than $30 per month in tips. An employer of a tipped employee is only required to pay $2.13 per hour in direct wages if that amount combined with the tips received at least equals the federal minimum wage. If the employee鈥檚 tips combined with the employer鈥檚 direct wages of at least $2.13 per hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference. Many states, however, require higher direct wage amounts for tipped employees.%26quot;

Many employers pay this lower wage and leaves it up to the customers to make up the difference in tips. I was a waitress, and those tips could tip the balance between having both rent AND utilities paid.

Can anyone come up with some logical, well thought out, reasons why tipping should be continued in the US?

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well in new mexico and arizona a waiter/waitress can legally be paid $2.12 an hour because they say that tips will bring the total up..i agree all should get a flat pay rate and no tipping..honestly i rarely have service worth tipping anymore..heck the last time i had good service we tipped the lady the same amount as the check because we had gotten so use to bad service|||NO! why should I pay some idiot to do is job? I don%26#039;t get extra monies for doing my job. And I have to put up with the same crappy public that the waitress, waiter, busboy, cook, and other tipsters do. but there is a law and the law is the law. BTW in my resources is the wiki on the law and in the tables at the bottom show that 7 state don%26#039;t allow the tip credit.