eli5 How did the US service industry become so reliant on consumer tips to function?
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People will disagree with this but the reason is that the people getting tipped believe they are making more money than if they moved it to a standard wage per hour.
This is certainly the case for waiters in restaurant, who in the majority of situations make more per hour than the cooks in the back of the house. Everybody loves to bitch about tipping, but a lot of those jobs are actually good for the people in those positions so doing away with them would only really benefit the consumers, and not the low wage earners.
Although I worked as a cook so maybe I’m biased.
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