Originally Posted by
muji
Yup, Washington is one of the few states with a minimum wage even higher than California. Most of the states that do not allow tip credits are on the west coast.
Here is the minimum wage for tipped and untipped employees in each state.
http://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm
Originally Posted by
VidaNaPraia
I find the encouragement here for people to work themselves up to becoming disgruntled, to look for faults in a meal and its presentation in order to justify not tipping a server, to focus on the punitive, is simply bizarre.
And rather a sad commentary on character.
I would hope that no one is encouraging people to look for faults in a meal. I personally tip 15% by default, and only reduce it if service was significantly subpar, which happens perhaps 10% of the time.