[SkyDancer]

No - it was the employers paying low wages - living off the backs of their employees ...... if employers paid a decent wage we wouldn’t be having this discussion ... K??????????

[Miss Marple]

I must point out to you that the wage structure for wait staff is the same all over this country, and has been for years, and that everyone knows it; you are taking advantage of people by not leaving a tip. Less kind people would say something worse.

The wage structure for these people isn’t going to change because you don’t leave a tip. You are simly lumped in with the other tightwads who also don’t leave tips, causing a great deal of hardship on servers who DEPEND on those tips.

If you don’t believe in tipping, the ethical thing to do is to eat at home, go through a drive-through, or pick something up at a deli. Period.

[ml/nj]

Look little girl. In many of the place I patronize the waitstaff would work for free. The employers know this and pay them next to nothing. If they had to pay them what they make in tips they a beer might cost $10, but it doesn't. Like I said, this is AMERICA. Maybe your family would prefer things back in the USSR?

ML/NJ