Thoughts on minimum wage and tipping. When is enough, enough? UPDATED

 I initially wrote this two years ago, today. I add the following as an update:

UPDATE:

Still the same. Except the minimum wage, ever increasing, is now $16.66 and will be $17.13 next year.

This is an insane amount of money for the work that's done, and tips on top of that?

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Thoughts on minimum wage and tipping. When is enough, enough?

Washington State has determined that beginning next year, the state’s minimum wage requirement will be $16.28.

There are as this is written, locations in this state where the minimum wage is $19.00 an hour. Most recently, the democrat’s practice of buying votes has come to include jacking up minimum wage along with obviously unconstitutional efforts to force taxpayers to pick up the tab for student loans, an effort continuing to this day; still just as unconstitutional and still an unvarnished effort to buy votes.

I have stopped tipping. Period. And I will never patronize any business requiring tipping as part of the bill.

Wait staff are already paid what amounts to an obscene amount of money for what they do. They spend, at most, 5 minutes tending to the customer: They hand you menus. They bring you water. They take your order, they refill your coffee cup. And that’s pretty much it.

And for that, there is an expectation that they ALSO get 15% of your ticket?

So, you take out a family of four, for example. You buy a $100 worth of food at a restaurant.

The wait staff, as I pointed out, expects, at minimum, a $15 tip for the 5 minutes they spent waiting on you, 5 minutes they’ve already been paid for?

How does that make any sense?

Think about it. Multiply that tip by 12. Add it to what they’re ALREADY paid.

12X15.00 = $180 (tips for that hour) + $16.28 (hourly wage) = $196.28

Does that mean all wait staff make that kind of money?

Of course not.

But how much SHOULD they make for what they do?

And yes, this applies to all of the other workers demanding to, effectively, be paid twice for their jobs, such as Door Dash and Uber and so forth.

The reality of life is this: we are EXPECTED to tip in some segments, and ignore tipping in the rest.

We do not, for example, tip our dentist, our doctors, or our mechanic, the cashier at the grocery store, the plumber, or any number of others we hire to work for us.

Why not?

If someone with higher education or training who saves your life isn’t eligible/worth tipping, then why is it that someone with zero job-related education is?

I don’t see it. I don’t get it. And I have stopped doing it.