# Does this make me evil?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-evil/369398>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 20, 2006, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-evil/369398 "2006-08-20T00:13:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-evil/369398/41 "2006-08-22T02:13:05Z")

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The actual waiters and waitresses at this place make at least minimum wage and get the occasional tip and I try to give them whatever change I have since they are trying to support themselves or go to college or whatever. I don’t believe I have ever tipped more than 75 cents or a dollar since they are carhops-they spent less than a minute bringing me my food and my money is not supposed to be their sole income since they get paid more than 2.13 an hour.

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This part bothers me more than the charity. Wow! A whole $2.13 an hour. If they work there full time and play their cards right, they can make a whole $85.00 a week.

Seriously, why wouldn’t you tip them what I assume you’d tip someone in a restaurant?  
You said yourself it was hot out. How do you know what they’re doing with their money?

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-evil/369398/42 "2006-08-22T02:51:40Z")

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$2.13 an hour is what tipped waiters/waitresses get. Per the OP, the carhops get minimum wage or higher.

You know what I wonder now, though, is why the group wasn’t fundraising through their church. My mother’s church has silent auctions, and pancake breakfasts, and suchlike as fundraisers for church-related groups.

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-evil/369398/43 "2006-08-22T15:30:53Z")

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[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink]  
I got the impression from the OP that the carhops were more akin to the counter guys in a fast food restaurant than to waiters in a sit-down restaurant, in the sense that you’re not really expected to tip them: they earn their money through their wages, not through tips.  
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In light of this, I think several of you are being way too hard on **pbbth**.  
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If this is in fact the case then I’m inclined to agree with you. I was under the impression that this was taking place in a setting where the carhops were customarily tipped. My apologies, **pbbth**. I seem to have misunderstood the situation.  
[QUOTE=Kat]  
You know what I wonder now, though, is why the group wasn’t fundraising through their church. My mother’s church has silent auctions, and pancake breakfasts, and suchlike as fundraisers for church-related groups.  
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I would hazard the guess that their fundraising at the drive in was in addition to fundraising through the church rather than in place of it. Just a guess, though.

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