We dug into how American tipping culture got so broken, and the fight to fix it.
It turns out that your tips are subsidizing the payrolls of multi-billion dollar chains, while they pay their workers under minimum wage.
It’s a system rooted in slavery, and pushed by a wealthy restaurant owners onto the rest of us.
But there’s a growing movement to change it.
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I did pull up the link and it only showed the profits from a single corporation that owns Burger King and Popeyes. Brinker who owns Chili’s and Maggianos has a net profit of 2.48%, Denny’s has a net profit of 8.25%, Dine Brands which owns Applebee’s and IHOP has a net profit of 9.03%. And these are established restaurants that have been around a long time.
