The moments after a server or barista hands over a credit card reader can be awkward. Will it offer tip options starting at 20 per cent? Will the server stare daggers at me if I don’t tip?
Tips used to be more private. Dropped in a cup, or calculated after the bill came.
Now suggested tips are on the rise, irking some Canadians — and raising big questions about business practices that make workers more dependent on tips and keep their wages low.
University of British Columbia sociologist Amy Hanser said tipping shifts the burden of servers’ wages off of employers onto customers and undercuts servers’ power to negotiate
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