I worked as a server in a restaurant, Barista at Starbucks, and I delivered pizzas. Ultimately it is crap and is a way of not having to directly pay employees by owners. It certainly does not "motivate" the worker to work harder--because you get fired by your boss if you don't work hard enough for them!!!!!! All that ever happened in every place I worked at for tips is that the most attractive woman on the staff got 10-25% more tips than anyone else. Every female co-worker I ever worked with said that when they dressed more sexy, their tips went up.
At A busy Starbucks, you often work as fast as your can-regardless. They have secret shoppers that rate you and you have to work your butt off. We would memorize customers names to manipulate them in to giving us more tips--not because we liked them or cared about them(that's one of the secrets of the Starbucks Baristas). We made everyone's drink the best we could-tip or not.
On my soap box now:
The worst thing about this "tipping system" is that unethical jerks never/rarely tip and get to skate by and pay a cheaper price for many things. That sucks. People should just get a fair wage to begin with--then all the customers would equally be contributing to the person's wages. Clearly not a fan of tipping system.
At A busy Starbucks, you often work as fast as your can-regardless. They have secret shoppers that rate you and you have to work your butt off. We would memorize customers names to manipulate them in to giving us more tips--not because we liked them or cared about them(that's one of the secrets of the Starbucks Baristas). We made everyone's drink the best we could-tip or not.
On my soap box now:
The worst thing about this "tipping system" is that unethical jerks never/rarely tip and get to skate by and pay a cheaper price for many things. That sucks. People should just get a fair wage to begin with--then all the customers would equally be contributing to the person's wages. Clearly not a fan of tipping system.
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