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…
The fact that a country has a minimum wage but then allows employers to ignore it because some staff gets tips is mind boggling.
A tip should be extra, not the default.
And I can imagine this is a powerfull tool so you can deny an “uppity negro” their tip because they looked at you funny or you don’t like how they have their hair.