>JR>Do you think the US tipping culture has an effect on wages and expectations?
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>KG>This is, at best, a marginal issue - and one that isn't even relevant for a number of unionized positions.
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>But your citations use large hotels an an example and I used international experience as mine. Have you tried googling "effect tips US wages?" Seems to me that not everybody sees tips as a marginal issue wrt minimum wages.

There are unionized hotel positions where tips are either few/far between or zero. Again, the tip topic is far more marginal.