Summary: This spotlight details the racist history of tipping, federal and state policy governing tipped work, and the experience of tipped workers in the economy—both nationwide and in the South. Across the country, tipped workers are more likely to be people of color, women, women of color, or single parents, and are disproportionately born outside…
Yeah, tipping has become a substitute used by owners to avoid paying employees living wages. In the US, at least, you don’t tip because you got exceptional service; you tip because you know tips fill out the average employee’s salary. Or because it’s expected and you feel like a cheap bastard if you don’t; either way, business owners capitalize on it and lie to prospective employees about income by including “expected” tipping revenue.