Tag: servers

Tip your server

I watched the two men I was serving pass the debit machine back and forth, talking in what they thought was a whisper. “Option three, right?” “Yeah, no tip.” I was crushed. Without the tips of these men, my total tips from what was already a dead shift wouldn’t match my daily goal. A hard lesson I...

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Tipping too unstable

It’s time the archaic practice of tipping was put to rest in favour of a more stable gratuity tax. As it stands, restaurant servers in Ontario earn wages below the provincial minimum, and are dependent on tips to supplement their income. Tipping perpetuates a power imbalance within the service industry,...

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