Re: WDW Tipping / Dining


"Ed" <friday@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Even though I agree with your reasoning the restaurant owners don't want
to
pay their servers a fair wage and raise prices to do it. Higher prices on
the menu would send many people elsewhere or they'd just eat at home. And
I
firmly believe that tipping is a reward/bonus for good service. Bad
service
should never be rewarded. If only I could get my wife to believe that.

I think we don't really disagree. What you're saying, in effect, is that the
American system is so ingrained that realistically there's no way it's going
to change any time soon. I would amend your statement to say that tipping
*ought to* be a rward/bonus for good service, but as it stands now, *part
of* the tip is simply paying the servers' compensation. That's just the
system, even for those who wish the system were otherwise.

In effect, you're saying that lower menu prices generate more business - and
hence more jobs for servers. But the tips still come in, which means the
servers still get their income, *and* provides them with incentive to serve
their customers. In terms of owners and servers, it's no worse than a
win/break even. As for the confusion and frustration for *some* customers,
that's a different story.

Ed, I'm trying to remember - wasn't the issue of tipping and "pay[ing] their
servers a fair wage" the whole original thing that got you and Foxtrot going
back about a year or so ago?

DJJ


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