re: Oprah advises tipping 10%???????? WTF?????

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Telling someone to tip 10% when the norm is 15-20% is not reducing a waiter's pay by 5-10% considering that their tips are probably 90% of their income. So with that being the case, if you reduce that 90% by 50%, then they are left earning 55% of what they made before.

That's a far cry a 5-10% cut.

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I'm glad someone else noticed the gross errors in math within this thread.

Is she an Onkyo or a Bose?

Is it racism or realism?

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Herb

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You're poor, right?

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The French don't tip at all and it works pretty well. Yes, sometimes people leave a little extra

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Yeah, if you leave them a buck, it's a good tip. However, the food is more expensive, so you pay it either way. When I was there a Coke was like $4.50.

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might have been some shipping cost in that

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Yeah, there must be some huge tariffs on it or something, but I promise I'm not exaggerating the price.

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so after a server tips out about 3-4 % of his tips he is left with about 7 % thanks to Oprah. That means on a 100 check you make 7 bucks, thats total bullshite

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This is what I dont understand, why is this bullshite? If a waiter has 2 $100 tickets in an hour makes $14 according to your calculations plus the $2 the resturant pays you equals $16/ hour that most waiters don't pay taxes on what is wrong with that?

Also the whole tipping on % of ticket never makes sense If I go to Ruffinos and my wife and I order a salad, an app and a pizza to share, ticket equals $45, if we order salad, app, steaks the ticket could be $120.. the waiter does the same work for each why should he get 3 times the tip because I wanted a steak?

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Nonsense. If it's my restaurant, and you don't do your job the way I want it to be done, expect it to be done, then I'll find someone who will.

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I'm assuming you've never owned a restaurant.

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And, since the customer will end up paying less, demand will not suffer

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See above response

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That's a very, very easy adjustment to make

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Maybe in your fairy-tale world

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And, it's one that should be made, in my opinion

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If you can pull it off, you'll be a billionaire overnight, and a hero/savior to the industry.

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I do not like the custom of tipping. Period.

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Love it or hate it, it will never change, unless you want to pay 15 bucks for your burger.

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I just don't see how according to the restaurant folks that I have talked to about this. You have to know that the total price the customer will end up paying is going to go up to at least the amound they are paying now including tip.
You as an owner are going to have to pay someone $10 to $12 an hour to get someone at least halfway descent, then you have to pay all of the crap to the gov. above and beyond that.
If it was such an easy switch, I think more places would have went to this system.

In the end, you have a very bad issue with getting service people right now with half a brain and an ounce of motivation. If you take a way the incentive, they be gone to another field and then you are stuck with stoners.

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Correct.

I was waiting for you to actually weigh in on this thread Opie.

I don't think many people understand how hard it is for a restaurant to staff up, especially a smaller restaurant. They have one of the highest turnover ratios of any business out there. To say you are just going to fire people and hire good ones just isn't a reality it most cities.
I read once that Emeril tried to make drug testing a requirement to work at any of his places. That went over like a fart in church and was done away with pretty quickly.

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I read once that Emeril tried to make drug testing a requirement to work at any of his places

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shite, you'd have to fire half the staff at most restaurants.

It's also funny that he'd do that, since I've heard from more than one person that they've done coke with him. At least back in the day anyway...