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This is very occasionally popping up in restaurants in Australia. Whether you live here or travelling. Do not tip unless they did something incredible. I’m talking the fish brought your grandma back to life and the chef reconnected you with your long lost father. We don’t want to encourage tipping culture. We want to increase minimum wage. It’s like $23 now and we need that to keep growing with the economy.
Fight it.
It's bled into Canada like that as well and now it's an expected thing in food service.
Cabs ask for tip here now. We have Pizza Delight out here with mandatory 15% tip after tax on thier buffet.
Fairly certain it says "xx gratuity will be added to all delivery orders", so it isn't really hidden, just obscure until final check out.
$23 is the national no award minimum, but the restaurant award mandates $29 for even a level 1 casual.
In America you can break your back at a fancy restaurant and they're legally allowed to pay you like less than $5 because of tipping culture, or you can work fast food and they're legally allowed to pay you $7.25 and you will never get tips. I'm amazed every day I wake up that we haven't begun another revolution.
$29 minimum!? ($18.40 in USD). In my state it's $7.50 (USD), and most fast food workers like me get $11 after tips...
Edit: For my line of work and hours it's $11 and $12.70 on weekends in Australia (converted to USD)... Still a bit more than most fast food workers get in the U.S...
We also have free healthcare. You Americans are getting shafted from so many directions
I'm seriously considering immigrating elsewhere when I've finished university... It's nearly unlivable here.
Do as soon as you can if you want to - coming back is often an option. It's a lot more difficult to courage up to later on life, when you tend to have much more connections and emotions to whatever you're about to leave.
It's not always a bad thing to stay, of course, people have their reasons to both proceed with emigration and shaking it off, but it's much easier the sooner you go with it.
Thank you. I vaguely remember almost 30 but can’t remember what context that was so didn’t want to overstate.
Yeah I always try to bring up our award to shut down the "but the well tipped waiters will lose money if you mandate a minimum wage" argument.
As though a minimum wage has to stay $7.
Our waitstaff get $35/hr on weekends and somehow we still have enough small cafes to bankrupt Starbucks.
Even if they did something incredible don't tip because you paid $30 for avocado on toast anyway.
I think that one that is angry about paying 30 for avocado toast should make their own for five bucks and tip themselves.
I mean, that's on you for agreeing to pay $30 for an avocado on toast.
I'm against (forced) tipping culture but the waiter is not at fault for the prices a restaurant sets up. If I saw the price and still decided to order it, I will definitely not fault the waiter for it.
Waiters that give great services gets tipped because I want to encourage waiters to give great service.