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I Got Rid of Tipping at My Restaurant to Fight Racism
Posted on 3/15/17 at 12:19 am
Posted on 3/15/17 at 12:19 am
This story has it all.
Gee. Thanks, massa. It would really suck if I could make more than you think I should make.
If I'd died years ago and this reality I'm experiencing was just an incredibly stupid dream, you guys would tell me, right?
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quote:Wow. He even worked gender shite into it. He's like some kind of liberal dipshit kung fu master. My favorite part.
Tipping is one of the tools by which discrimination is allowed to exist. I've seen the implicit racism that tipping leads to. Tipping started right after the end of slavery. It's basically a tool to keep control over people, to keep control over indentured servitude. Then you carry that 100 years further and you think about gender expectations and what one needs to do for a tip. In certain places, women have to exhibit a certain behavior and sell a certain something in order to get more tips, in order to survive in that atmosphere—and that sucks.
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On our menu right now it says, "We include a 20 percent service charge with checks so everybody in the restaurant makes a living wage." It gets shared. It's distributed. Nobody in the restaurant makes less than $14 [an hour] at the end of the day.
Gee. Thanks, massa. It would really suck if I could make more than you think I should make. If I'd died years ago and this reality I'm experiencing was just an incredibly stupid dream, you guys would tell me, right?
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Posted on 3/15/17 at 12:37 am to stuntman
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Also, you'd better have stocked up on the pink lemonade i
Or my favorite, water with extra lemons and sugar.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 12:51 am to jmarto1
Had a lady at the bar ordering food at Chimes when I tended bar there in college.
At one point she says, "Uhhh eh-scuse.......can you get me some mo' Ranch? Dis salad makin my mouf dry."
shite you not.
At one point she says, "Uhhh eh-scuse.......can you get me some mo' Ranch? Dis salad makin my mouf dry."
shite you not.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 1:05 am to blueboy
TIPS
"To Insure Proper Service"
Ensure and Insure are interchangeable.
When it was started, the tip was given at the beginning of the meal to guarantee the server treated your party correctly. When service started getting worse because the server hard already gotten paid, it naturally shifted to the end of the meal.
"To Insure Proper Service"
Ensure and Insure are interchangeable.
When it was started, the tip was given at the beginning of the meal to guarantee the server treated your party correctly. When service started getting worse because the server hard already gotten paid, it naturally shifted to the end of the meal.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 1:15 am to stuntman
quote:
to Fla back in '99 and waited tables as well. Canadians (the real ones, not the code names) SUCK at tipping,
What's the difference in a Canuck and a canoe?
A canoe might tip.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 1:37 am to blueboy
"I raised prices by 20% and now less-fortunate people, including many blacks, aren't going to come to my restaurant anymore. Therefore, I prefer institutionalized racism over a personal racism that may or may not exist depending on the customer."
Posted on 3/15/17 at 5:44 am to blueboy
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You look at the president-elect's nomination for secretary of labor, it's like the Darth Vadar [sic] of possibilities.
I stopped reading here
Posted on 3/15/17 at 6:07 am to FeauxPaw
quote:Sorry. Accidental down vote. Fat fingertip syndrome.
I stopped reading here
Posted on 3/15/17 at 6:21 am to stuntman
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I moved to Fla back in '99 and waited tables as well. Canadians (the real ones, not the code names) SUCK at tipping, so it has nothing to do w/ melanin levels, just clutcha, eh.
I was a chef for over 20 years and know the industry well. Canadians are taught to tip the tax which is why they suck at tis in the states. Their tax on a meal is around 15 to 20% depending on the province they are from. That said you were in Florida and unfortunately most the Canadians you get there are the French Canadians from quebec and they are cheap motherfrickers. Don't judge Canadians too harshly because of that ;)
Posted on 3/15/17 at 6:31 am to blueboy
We’re like a Salvation Army meets a soup kitchen, meets a gastropub, meets a Marxist- or Leninist-type social structure.” ??
Posted on 3/15/17 at 7:36 am to blueboy
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By not having gratuity, the hospitality-included price is just 20 percent higher. You can just distribute that however you want, so rather than having $45-an-hour employees and having a $9-an-hour employee, you have $30-an-hour employees, and then nobody is below $15 an hour. Some of the servers at the top of that payscale don't get that top wage, but I could argue that that's not real. That's not an equal distribution of the work that is happening there.
So instead of getting the $45 employees you get those who will settle for $30: those who can't do anymore, those who never could, and those who are learning how. Now if your customers will settle for less, fine. But I don't think this will end well!
Posted on 3/15/17 at 8:11 am to blueboy
I've waited tables in a restaurant that paid hostesses, bussers, bartenders, and waiters $2.13 per hour. After tips the waiters had to pay out the other positions to ensure everyone made at least minimum wage. It worked out so bussers and hostesses would make about $10/hr and servers and bartenders pulled in around $12. I would have loved the idea of an 18-20% service charge that everyone just paid and the restaurant figured it out. Tipping is a stupid practice that both servers and patrons get frustrated with. Tipping should be something people do for above and beyond service. Tipping should not be something that customers feel obligated to do because the restaurant industry lobbied the government so they could pay their employees $2.13 per hour.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 8:10 am to AUsteriskPride
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And the church crowd. Those are some cheap bastards.
Amen to that! Worked at a pizza place in college. Party of 10 for a Bible study. Stayed 3 hours, couldn't close until they left, ordered nothing but nachos and water and left about two dollars in change.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 8:19 am to blueboy
This concept has been tried before. I read a few years ago about a restaurant that charged more rather than tips. The experiment failed. people who tip didn't like it bc they like to control the amount they pay and may even pay more than 20%. It made costs higher for customers who tip 15%. And the dipshits who don't tip didn't like it obviously, and that hurt the restaurant's income.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 8:24 am to Gaspergou202
did it read everyone made the same ?
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Nobody in the restaurant makes less than $14 [an hour]
Posted on 3/15/17 at 8:27 am to blueboy
So, if I have this right, he's added a surcharge to his prices to cover wages, instead of just paying the wages he feels are fair?
There's a place I'd never eat. I mean how stupid, just raise your menu prices slightly and go on, no need to announce that you are charging your customers 20% extra.
There's a place I'd never eat. I mean how stupid, just raise your menu prices slightly and go on, no need to announce that you are charging your customers 20% extra.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 8:28 am to awestruck
I will not return to a restaurant that automatically charges me for the tip. Hell most the time I would tip more but it pisses me off to automatically charge me.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 8:42 am to blueboy
Good service gets good tip and vice versa. I keep it simple.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 8:46 am to offshoretrash
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. Hell most the time I would tip more but it pisses me off to automatically charge me.
me too.
However, if the owner decides that's how he wants to run his business and I like the food for the price, then what's the beef? Its not like that 15% gratuity om large crowds keeps me from leaving something more.
ETA: the quote
This post was edited on 3/15/17 at 8:50 am
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