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Why American Tipping Culture Is Broken (yewtu.be)
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We dug into how American tipping culture got so broken, and the fight to fix it.

It turns out that your tips are subsidizing the payrolls of multi-billion dollar chains, while they pay their workers under minimum wage.

It's a system rooted in slavery, and pushed by a wealthy restaurant owners onto the rest of us.

But there's a growing movement to change it.

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[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The workers need to stand up to their employers. As long as you have waiters defending tipping culture with "But I make more money like this" it will not change