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A tip is supposed to be a little extra bit of money, often given to reward good service,

but nowadays in some industries in the U.S., such as restaurants in particular, tipping

has stopped being a little something extra and instead it has become the customer actually

paying most if not all of the employee's earnings.

So is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Hey everyone, Dana here!

And I think tipping is good. And bad. Hmmm, okay wait, let me start over.

When I lived in the U.S. I did work as a server for a little while.

And let me just start by saying that I'm very sorry to anyone out there who had to

have me as their server, I was not cut out for that job and it wasn't one that I enjoyed at all.

But I did like the idea -- in fact I loved the idea that what I earned each day or evening

was based on my performance, and perhaps a little bit of luck as to who I got as customers.

I would go into each shift feeling like the sky was the limit for how much money I could make.

If I could just smile and really hustle and get to as many tables as possible without

spilling or dropping anything, who knows how much I could earn.

Maybe there would be someone really generous who would come in that evening and they would

leave me a huge tip that I was probably not so deserving of because I had probably forgotten

their drink or messed up their salad -- like I said, not a good server -- but sometimes

people were just super generous.

Sometimes customers just out of their kind hearts left me a very nice tip.

But sometimes they didn't.

I was left just thirteen cents one time, and, oh boy, was that a sad moment.

I had worked and worked and worked, so hard.

I was really trying my best.

And then I got just thirteen cents because the customer decided that I didn't deserve

to earn anything more than that.

The customer made that decision, that I didn't deserve to earn my wage for the work that

I had done.

Which when you think about it, is actually a pretty strange thing.

That doesn't happen at the movie theater.

The customers at movie theaters don't get to decide how much the person who sold them

the ticket should make that evening based on how much they smiled or how many mistakes

they did or didn't make.

Or what kind of a mood the customer is in that day.

No, that is between the employee and the employer to work out.

Not the customer.

But well, I mean, whatever, this is just how it's done at restaurants everywhere around

the world, right?

Wrong.

And I had no idea before leaving the U.S. for the first time, but no.

It is not the case everywhere in the world that the customers at restaurants are expected

to pay most or even any of the server's wage at all.

Here in Germany it is customary for a little tip to be left, usually I would say around

ten percent, but here this is a tip in the actual sense of the word, a little something

extra on top of what the server is earning.

But, for example, in Sweden from my experience, that's not the case.

We went to Sweden a few years ago and tried to leave a tip at the restaurant, but they

expressly said no, they would not take the tip.

They said that they had just been doing their job.

They wouldn't take it.

Even though out server had actually gone, as far as I'm concerned, above and beyond

her job that day.

The restaurant that we had gone to had just recently gotten a new menu and hadn't yet

had the chance to translate it into English, so it was only in Swedish.

So our server stood there and read through the whole menu to us, translating it into

English for us.

And still she would not accept a tip.

She said no, it's just, that's part of my job.

I've also heard that there's no tipping in restaurants in Japan too.

I don't know first hand, but that's what I've heard.

Okay, fine, but still this is how it's always been done in the U.S., so just leave it be.

Nope! Wrong again.

And first of all here, even if something had always been done a certain way somewhere,

why in the world would that be a good reason to keep doing it?

Just because something has "always been done a certain way," if we realize that now it's

not actually a good way of doing things, or maybe it was a good way of doing things at

one point, but now it's not anymore, then it should be changed, regardless of how long

it's been done that way. Right?

But anyway, no, it hasn't always been done like this in the U.S.

According to several articles that I read, which I will link to down below, America actually

got their tipping practices from Europe in the latter half of the 1800s.

And actually, at first, when tipping was first introduced from Europe into the USA,

a lot of people in the U.S. did not like it.

Being able to buy better service was actually considered anti-democratic at first in the U.S.

But, obviously, over time that changed.

Whereas in Europe some of the countries from whom the U.S. had actually first gotten the

idea of tipping, had, by the middle of the 1950s started scaling back their tipping,

either with mandatory service charges on the bill or mandatory wage minimums for the employees.

Which brings us to where we are today.

So is tipping like this in the USA bad?

Well, as someone who has worked as a server in the U.S., and as someone who has experienced

basically mandatory tipping in the USA, a little tipping in Germany, and from my experience

no tipping in Sweden, I have to say that I personally prefer the whole no tipping thing.

As a server in the U.S., yes, it was kind of exciting to think that the harder I worked

the more money I could make.

But for one, that made it all the more devastating when I didn't get a good tip, or any tip

at all, especially if I had done everything "right" and to the best of my abilities.

Just because the person eating forgot or didn't feel like tipping or whatever, just because

of that I didn't get paid for my work?

Come on, like I said, that doesn't happen in other jobs.

Sometimes at restaurants in the U.S. people don't like the food they ordered and then

because of that they don't tip the server.

Going back to the movie theater example, it's like, you can't go out and see a movie and then

if you don't like it, well sorry the person who sold you the ticket doesn't get paid that night.

But also, because of the tipping system in the U.S., when I was a server everything,

and I mean everything about my evening, became solely focused on making as much money as possible.

Because like I said I knew the sky was the limit.

So I focused so razor sharply on that bottom line that it really felt like any other measurement

of success, like enjoying the evening or making a fun connection with other people just disappeared.

Later when I worked as a hostess in a restaurant, where my earnings were the same no matter

what, I got paid per hour by the restaurant, I felt like I was finally able to enjoy my

job and enjoy the evening.

And for a while, yeah, I did think, like, well but the tipping system in the U.S. incentivizes

better service at restaurants, doesn't it.

But then I realized that actually makes no sense.

If I didn't give good customer service at the restaurant that I worked at as a server, yeah

I guess I wouldn't have gotten good tips, but I also probably would have been fired

for not doing my job because giving good customer service is a part of the job of being a server

in the U.S. Customer service is important in America, and I get good customer service

in the U.S. in places where there's no tipping at all, like at the grocery store.

Or when I worked as a hostess at the restaurant, I wasn't getting any tips, but I still gave

great customer service because that was a part of the job.

And actually I felt like I was able to give better customer service as a hostess because

I didn't have to worry about those tips.

And lastly, as a customer going out to eat, I personally would much rather just have a

set service fee that I need to pay, automatically added to my bill or, you know, just have the

server's payment included in the price of what I'm buying, just like at other places,

like at the movie theater or the bowling alley.

The cost of paying the employees is just added into the price that I have to pay when I go

do that activity.

This system seems to work just fine at other places. Why not at restaurants?

But that's just me.

So my question for you is: Do you think that tipping like this is good or bad?

Would you prefer to live in a world without tipping?

Please let me know in the comments below.

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Until next time, auf Wiedersehen!

Which brings us to where we are today.

I'm hungry!

Then it should be changed, regardless of how long it's been done that way. Right?

Like we can learn from the past and change the way of doing something.

Yes?

That's the wonderful thing about humans. I think?

Until next time...I'm waving way too soon! Auf Wiedersehen! Okay, I'm done!

For more infomation >> Restaurant Tipping in America Is...Bad?! - Duration: 11:35.

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Health Ranger reminds us that U S food safety regulators are running on corruption - Duration: 4:27.

Health Ranger reminds us that U.S. food safety regulators are running on corruption

It�s a new day in Washington, D.C. after Donald J. Trump defied the odds and beat the

political establishment of both parties, but unfortunately, the federal bureaucracy lives

on and until he has more time to cut it down to size, it will continue to make lives more

difficult � and dangerous � for Americans.

One group of regulators that is particularly loathsome are those who deal with food safety,

notes Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. In a recent podcast, he

asks if you�ve ever wondered why toxic food additives and ingredients that are banned

in many other countries around the world are still legal in foods sold across the USA,

or why GMOs aren�t allowed to be labeled in America, keeping consumers in the dark

about what they�re eating?

�The answer is that U.S. government regulators have been deeply corrupted by industry influence.

They now operate solely to protect the interests of food and agriculture industries by keeping

consumers ignorant of all the toxic poisons and GMOs they�re eating,� Adams says.

The Health Ranger noted that many substances like GMOs and pesticides are being banned

by other countries but not the United States, because our government �is so incredibly

corrupt� (as we�ve seen once more in recent days with new revelations about how Russian

officials bribed Hillary Clinton and her husband to get 20 percent of U.S.-held uranium � and

the FBI knew about it but did nothing).

Adams says Americans are currently living under a system of �food fascism� because

the government is so beholden to many big corporations and together they have formed

a totalitarian partnership that beats down competition while enforcing corporate- and

big government-friendly rules, even to the detriment of We the People.

�When you have big corporations write the regulatory rules, you have fascism,� he

said. �When government exists to protect the interests of the corporations while betraying

the interests of the people, you have fascism.�

And the problem is particularly inherent in the American food industry, where corporate

control over the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture

(USDA) is pervasive.

�Think about it,� he said. �Why in any sane society would we not label GMOs? Why

would we not want the consumer to have more information that they can use to make an informed

decision about what they wish to eat?

And yet, every legitimate effort � by states, by advocacy groups, by organic growers � to

force the government to mandate GMO labeling has gone down in defeat or is being litigated

out of existence in the courtrooms. (Related: Check out the Health Ranger�s GMO labeling

song �Just Label It�.)

While the issue hasn�t yet come up during the Trump administration, President Obama

� who claimed in 2008 during his first presidential campaign to support GMO labeling � signed

federal legislation in August 2016 preempting states from requiring food labeling to contain

information on GMOs.

That law, Adams said, signifies to Americans that they don�t really have a right to know

what�s in their food.

�Of course, America is the headquarters of Monsanto and the biotech industry, which

of course have their financial tentacles into academia, the media� and government.

Adams noted that Trump is pro-organic and doesn�t need GMO corporate America�s money,

making him the most likely president to push for new legislation that would require food

makers to fully inform Americans about what�s in their food.

�It�s no coincidence that the people who used to argue that smoking cigarettes was

safe are now arguing that GMOs are safe,� Adams said, alluding to the similarities between

how the tobacco and GMO industries are using similar public relations tactics to keep people

in the dark about the dangers of

their products.

For more infomation >> Health Ranger reminds us that U S food safety regulators are running on corruption - Duration: 4:27.

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Health Ranger reminds us that U.S. food safety regulators are running on corruption - Duration: 4:24.

Health Ranger reminds us that U.S. food safety regulators are running on corruption

It�s a new day in Washington, D.C. after Donald J. Trump defied the odds and beat the

political establishment of both parties, but unfortunately, the federal bureaucracy lives

on and until he has more time to cut it down to size, it will continue to make lives more

difficult � and dangerous � for Americans.

One group of regulators that is particularly loathsome are those who deal with food safety,

notes Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. In a recent podcast, he

asks if you�ve ever wondered why toxic food additives and ingredients that are banned

in many other countries around the world are still legal in foods sold across the USA,

or why GMOs aren�t allowed to be labeled in America, keeping consumers in the dark

about what they�re eating?

�The answer is that U.S. government regulators have been deeply corrupted by industry influence.

They now operate solely to protect the interests of food and agriculture industries by keeping

consumers ignorant of all the toxic poisons and GMOs they�re eating,� Adams says.

The Health Ranger noted that many substances like GMOs and pesticides are being banned

by other countries but not the United States, because our government �is so incredibly

corrupt� (as we�ve seen once more in recent days with new revelations about how Russian

officials bribed Hillary Clinton and her husband to get 20 percent of U.S.-held uranium � and

the FBI knew about it but did nothing).

Adams says Americans are currently living under a system of �food fascism� because

the government is so beholden to many big corporations and together they have formed

a totalitarian partnership that beats down competition while enforcing corporate- and

big government-friendly rules, even to the detriment of We the People.

�When you have big corporations write the regulatory rules, you have fascism,� he

said. �When government exists to protect the interests of the corporations while betraying

the interests of the people, you have fascism.�

And the problem is particularly inherent in the American food industry, where corporate

control over the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture

(USDA) is pervasive.

�Think about it,� he said. �Why in any sane society would we not label GMOs? Why

would we not want the consumer to have more information that they can use to make an informed

decision about what they wish to eat?

And yet, every legitimate effort � by states, by advocacy groups, by organic growers � to

force the government to mandate GMO labeling has gone down in defeat or is being litigated

out of existence in the courtrooms. (Related: Check out the Health Ranger�s GMO labeling

song �Just Label It�.)

While the issue hasn�t yet come up during the Trump administration, President Obama

� who claimed in 2008 during his first presidential campaign to support GMO labeling � signed

federal legislation in August 2016 preempting states from requiring food labeling to contain

information on GMOs.

That law, Adams said, signifies to Americans that they don�t really have a right to know

what�s in their food.

�Of course, America is the headquarters of Monsanto and the biotech industry, which

of course have their financial tentacles into academia, the media� and government.

Adams noted that Trump is pro-organic and doesn�t need GMO corporate America�s money,

making him the most likely president to push for new legislation that would require food

makers to fully inform Americans about what�s in their food.

�It�s no coincidence that the people who used to argue that smoking cigarettes was

safe are now arguing that GMOs are safe,� Adams said, alluding to the similarities between

how the tobacco and GMO industries are using similar public relations tactics to keep people

in the dark about the dangers of their products.