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![TIPPING CULTURE IS CRUSHING SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS
Before we can even talk about how frustrating it feels today, we have to talk about where it came from… because the history matters.
“In the U.S., [tipping] got its start in the post-Civil War and Reconstruction period, when employers were hiring people of color and not paying them wages,” Barth says. Back then, this practice happened primarily in the railroad industry. “It was essentially an extension of slavery.”
(Kelsey Kosh, University of Houston)
Before I dug deeper into this, I had no idea the history on tips. My jaw was literally on the floor.
Tipping, at its roots, is a way for employers to avoid paying wages and shift the burden of paying workers onto customers.
From what I read in Kelsey’s piece, it became firmly established during the Gilded Age in hospitality. Anti-tipping laws popped up in the early 1900s… and eventually got struck down.
Why is that the most American thing ever 😩
Something wildly embedded in our everyday culture stems from something deeply ugly… and we just kept building on it like it’s normal.
Fast forward to now and tipping has evolved into this emotional game where everyone is mad at the wrong person.
Customers are mad at owners and servers.
Servers are mad at owners.
Owners are just stuck playing the field trying to keep everyone happy.
And the only people winning… nobody. Nooooobodddyyyy.
Let’s use my restaurant as an example.
When I opened my doors, I paid my servers $10/hour + tips.
And when I go back and look at payroll stamps, there were lots of shifts where my servers were walking out making $45/hour. That is wild. WILD.
And before anyone jumps down my throat: I’m not saying service workers don’t deserve to make good money. I’m not saying that.
Here is what I feel people don’t understand:
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