To begin, It has been shown that the tip system does not, on average, give the workers a standard minimum wage. Due to the current increase of cost of living, the workers have found this increasingly difficult. She makes this point saying that, despite minimum wage increasing, tips have stayed the same. Besides this, I am aware that, from personal experience, many people do not tip as much as they ought to, mainly because there is a lack of understanding about this system. In general, the …show more content…
Tips do not usually work out in they way they are intended and instead, leave the employees without much extra earned at the end of the day. She says that tips are almost never based on how well the servers are doing at their job. Customers rarely change the amount of their tip substantially, they only ever really increase by 1.5%. This meager sum does not provide enough money for the employee's work and does not provide enough of a living wage for someone in this