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Why do we pay tips to people for doing their jobs?

Restaurants are one of the main places we pay tips but the people are doing their jobs and we do not choose them.

We do not pay tips to people who works at stores helping at the register or bagging.

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  • 9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Tips are also referred to as ''gratuities". Servers, bartenders,. and some delivery drivers rely on tips for their main source of income because they are paid very little. Most get paid about $3.00 an hour, so.they rely on tips to supplement their income. Restaraunts and bars implemented this low pay idea so that service would be good. They figured if the waitstaff knew they needed to get a good tip to make money, they would provide better service to get the tip.

  • 9 years ago

    It is a social preference. Some do not tip at all while others are expected to tip.

    A tip (also called a gratuity) is a sum of money tendered to certain service sector workers for a service performed or anticipated. Such payments and their size are a matter of social custom. Tipping varies among cultures and by service industry. Though a tip is seldom required, and its amount is usually at the discretion of the patron being served, in some circumstances failing to give an adequate tip when one is expected is a serious faux pas, and may be considered very miserly, a violation of etiquette, or unethical. In some other cultures or situations, giving a tip is not expected and offering one would be considered at best odd and at worst condescending or demeaning. In some circumstances, such as with U.S. government workers, receiving of tips is illegal.

    In countries where tipping is the norm, such as the United States, some employers pay workers with the expectation that tips will make up the difference.

  • cobble
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    some jobs pay much less because of the fact a tip is expected. Waiters have their very own minimum salary that's under everybody else’s. And while they document their taxes they might desire to promptly pay taxes on 8% of the expenses of their clientele, no count what their advice certainly are. That’s why you're able to desire to constantly tip a waiter or waitress. and due to this many places will immediately upload in a gratuity if it incredibly is a extensive group. I used to grant pizzas. transport people are paid primary minimum salary, plus mileage in the event that they use their very own motor vehicle. yet you incredibly ought to tip them too. maximum use their very own automobiles, and until they are routinely vulnerable the cost of preserving their vehicle repaired and working will take a brilliant chew of their paycheck, way previous what they are paid for mileage. Please be conscious that transport rates rarely bypass to the motive force. it incredibly is in many cases for the pizza place, to help pay the motive force's hourly salary. and that i did that activity years in the past, while gasoline expenditures have been soaring around $a million consistent with gallon. i won't be in a position to think of how they are making it these days at $4 consistent with gallon. If I order a pizza these days and characteristic it further, i will tip ok. I thoroughly forget approximately tip jars. until they are coming around the counter and bringing me my nutrition, they are not getting a tip. i think of it is okay to not tip for particularly undesirable service. in basic terms make certain you at the instant are not penalizing your waiter or transport guy or woman for some thing previous their administration. I even have never left a cafe without tipping ... yet I even have won such undesirable service a pair of cases in my existence the place I even have left them basically a coin. never bypass away without tipping in any respect, they might think of you forgot. Leaving one small coin extremely sends a message.

  • 9 years ago

    We tip inappropriately. A tip should be given only when service goes beyond average quality. Unfortunately, in our time of entitlement, to many people expect a tip without delivering good service.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Kindness

  • bill
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    Because waiter/waitress don't get paid minnimum wadge. Two dollars and fifty cents to start. How can anyone pay anything at that rate.

    Source(s): Tried it.
  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    We don't tip in Australia, so I have no idea.

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