Tips or Spit: Fast Food Chains Want You to Give Their Employees Extra

Fast food chains are thinking like restaurants and adding one detail to the list of ingredients. That one thing can raise an employee's wages and at the same time keep them from getting a raise. "Sonic" has been doing it for years. Do you know what it is? Here's a hint: When it's spelled backwards it spells spit.

I bet you grade a puzzle solvers have figured it out. For those of you who haven't that's okay I'll tell you. And the answer is tips. "Sonic" is kind of like an old fashioned drive-thru of the fifties and sixties era where "car hops" delivered food to hungry people waiting in their car. People of those decades tipped the girls and occasional guy for bringing the food to them even though its not the same service they would get from a sit down restaurant. Tipping just sort of stuck from eras past too now. And although many feel its crazy to tip an employee who gets minimum wage or more for doing little more then what a "McDonald" employee would do they still tip.

Recently the fast food mall chain "Corn Dog 7" is trying to get in on the tipping biz by leaving a tip jar on the counter next to their cash register. They want you to tip them for taking your order, money, and bringing the food to the table after they have cooked it. It sounds like what a waitress or waiter would do in a sit down restaurant, but its not. The "Corn Dog 7" employee does not come to your table to take your order. You place it at the register and then pay. If you have a drink order they don't take it to your table, you wait for it at the counter. They do take your food to the table after they cook it, but they do get minimum wage or more. Again this is what "McDonald employees do and they don't get tips.

There is a difference between "Sonic" and "Corn Dog 7." "Sonic" tippers share a common knowledge that they are supposed to tip. Kind of like a "Sonic" underground. You may go to "Sonic" with someone who tips there all the time and before that time you had no prior knowledge that the employees expected tips. Now when you go to "Sonic" you feel you have to tip.