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re: Restaurants are adding service fees up to 22%, and they don't plan on stopping soon
Posted on 5/17/23 at 6:32 am to cattus
Posted on 5/17/23 at 6:32 am to cattus
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Easy solution is dont tip.
Probably the first thing that would pop in my head but you would just be hurting the wrong person.
Initially, yes. They want to charge more under the bullshite claim of not making money. Since it's a service charge, they can choose what to do with it, including not pay their servers more even though they are greedily profiting a lot more. If tips stop, servers will quit, which will mean the restaurant will have to increase pay to get servers.
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Posted on 5/17/23 at 6:41 am to VolsOut4Harambe
quote:People are too lazy to stop eating out or ordering take out. Dumbasses pay high prices just to have food delivered a few miles because they can't be bothered to pick it up themselves.
They’re about to FA/FO when people stop eating out
This post was edited on 5/17/23 at 7:23 am
Posted on 5/17/23 at 6:45 am to Prisms
Well…..bye
Posted on 5/17/23 at 6:48 am to Prisms
No problem. I will not add additional tips. With the service charge, the restaurants will have to pay the workers more. That has been the case at restaurants throughout Europe forever.
Posted on 5/17/23 at 6:52 am to blueboxer1119
quote:this. If I saw a 20% service charge, I’m “0” out the tip line.
Easy solution is dont tip.
Posted on 5/17/23 at 6:53 am to Jake88
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People a r e to lazy to stop eating out or ordering take out. Dumbasses pay high prices just to have food delivered a few miles because they can't be bothered to pick it up themselves.
This is from a thread recently about food delivery apps. When I read it, I had to take the screenshot.
Posted on 5/17/23 at 7:24 am to BRgetthenet
Yep. That's the crap that gets me. Credit card debt on a $90,000 income be dammned.
Posted on 5/17/23 at 7:26 am to Jake88
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Dumbasses pay high prices just to have food delivered a few miles because they can't be bothered to pick it up themselves.
It's amazing to me that became as popular as it did.
Posted on 5/17/23 at 7:29 am to fallguy_1978
quote:Two hundred years into the future, will people even move? What's the movie where everyone is in a chair and plugged in?
It's amazing to me that became as popular as it did.
Posted on 5/17/23 at 7:37 am to Jake88
Everything will be drone delivered, people won't leave their houses
This post was edited on 5/17/23 at 7:58 am
Posted on 5/17/23 at 7:38 am to blueboxer1119
So don't tip because restaurant added a fee? Server is not getting the service fee. Why penalize your server?
I don't really understand why restaurants don't just up their prices, but this is not the servers fault.
I don't really understand why restaurants don't just up their prices, but this is not the servers fault.
Posted on 5/17/23 at 7:39 am to Prisms
Going out to eat is hardly worth it anymore. Not a good experience bc “Covid” excuse and prices. If no service fee on menu, I’d complain to take it off. If they don’t, that’s the tip. Service fees aren’t usually given to the staff, and I tip well, but I would hold strong there. No bill should go up 50% for service and tip being added.
Posted on 5/17/23 at 7:50 am to Mr Breeze
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Financial publications like the WSJ and others have written how many businesses are needlessly staying with higher "Covid" pricing + inflationary justification to determine where the customer's tolerance ends.
Yep, we've hit our point too. We had already started eating out less a year ago because of the crappy service due to staffing shortages but we slowed it down even more the last few months because everything is easily double the cost of a year ago but now all these credit card/service fees are being added too.
Tip fatigue is a thing, fee fatigue is the next thing. It's already happened with Airbnb, people want to know the price of things upfront. They don't want to have to search for every single restaurant's disclosure and breakdown just to determine what a meal might cost. What good are "low" menu prices if the overall cost is substantially more with backend fees? Enough with the fee shell game.
Posted on 5/17/23 at 7:56 am to Prisms
Also "service fee" is confusing. So many people are going to assume that is going to the server and adjust their tip accordingly. "Operations fee" is more accurate but owners know people will push back with that.
Posted on 5/17/23 at 7:57 am to KWL85
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So don't tip because restaurant added a fee? Server is not getting the service fee. Why penalize your server?
Aside from simply not going to the restaurant, it may be the only way to send a message to the owners who aren't distributing the service fees back to their workers.
Posted on 5/17/23 at 8:02 am to KWL85
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So don't tip because restaurant added a fee? Server is not getting the service fee. Why penalize your server? I don't really understand why restaurants don't just up their prices, but this is not the servers fault.
A weekend of no one tipping because of the service charge will see those servers quitting and the service charge removed by Monday.
A handful of people bitching to management means the service charge stays until the place goes out of business.
Restaurant management can stomach a few angry customers. Their waitstaff quitting en masse is untenable.
Posted on 5/17/23 at 8:03 am to Benne Wafer
Everyone is using inflationary adjustment. Except employers. One day we will all be on the dole, as they’ve planned. It’s just begun.
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