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Originally Posted by Nootka
The reason we tend to get good service is because waiters are motivated by tips.
But once they know the tips are always coming guaranteed 100% of the time at a certain level, this motivation disappears, DUCY?
You can't have your cake and eat it to.
The Euro system doesn't have tips in their culture but they pay the waiter a higher wage and the items in turn have a higher price. So in effect everyone is tipping a certain flat %. The good is that the waiters make a decent wage, the bad is that the motivation to do good service disappears.
The US system the waiter relies on tips because his non-tip wage is very low. He gets some bad tips, some great tips, some stiffs, but it all pretty much evens out to a wage he likes (there are tons of waiters, so clearly it's not too terrible of a job). The good with this system is it provides incentive to provide good service in hopes of improving the tip. The bad is that occasionally you will provide great service and not get a good tip.
So as you can see, both systems have pros and cons.
If it were possible to have a system of all pros and no cons, don't you think such would exist?
You are demanding the pros from both systems which is pretty absurd and just not gonna happen.
The reason for people getting so freaking pissed off about other people not tipping to a level they deem good is because they view low or non-tippers are somehow scamming the system or free loading off regular tippers.
If you actually believe that, then ya be outraged, but I think this is a fundamentally flawed belief.