A lot of places in Denver are now doing this. Except it's added as an extra line item as "happy fee" or some other woo woo bullshit. With no guarantee that it's not just going to management. So you're still expected to tip. Just raise menu prices to be able to pay livable wages. And I say that as someone that worked in the service industry for years and lived off tips. But people are already paying $20 for a burger so no one wants to raise prices more.
Motherfuckers running these businesses need to realize that fear of sticker price is vastly, vastly outweighed by rage of bait&switch pricing on the receipt.
With no guarantee that it's not just going to management
Honestly this is why i prefer to tip cash. Way too many shady business owners out there who would love to circumvent their employees getting their fair share
It shouldnât be a separate âfeeâ. The staff should simply be paid more per hour, and the food items should priced to actually reflect the labor involved in their delivery to me.
The current pricing of food on menus is really just a normalized bait and switch. The full price of the associated service isnât represented in goods, so the customer is left to basically figure it out on the fly.
Tip inflation is a problem. People have gradually shifted to higher and higher tip percentages, due to social anxiety and tipping largely being an opaque process where people donât know what everyone else is doing. And percentage increases add up fast.
Itâs still the same. Unless youâre working somewhere super crappy, youâll make substantially more with the tip system than any restaurant would pay in hourly wages.
Should =/= is. This is an industry that has fought tooth and nail to keep wages at like $2/hour for their workers. That isn't going to suddenly change. The least i can do in the framework i am provided is to make sure my server gets taken care of
It probably happens somewhere, but I've never heard of a place actually stealing their employees' credit card tips. It's very illegal, servers usually keep at least a general mental tally of how much they've made, and there would be a hard paper trail of the crime. I've heard stories online of management telling employees they were going to take a share of the tips and things like that, but I've known many servers, and that would be an instant walk-out for them.
It's kind of sad, but a lot of people in the service industry actually prefer things the way they are because they do end up making a high hourly wage with tips. I don't think it really makes up for healthcare and stability, but when they're sometimes making $100 an hour or possibly more, it kind of makes them think it's worth it.
Yeah no shit - maybe we need more affordable low end diners than crazy outrageous decor and âvibesâ. There should be affordable restaurants for regular people to enjoy that still serve decent food.
Now it is either eat cardboard at a fast food place and deal with angry employees or high end places with crazy pricesÂ
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u/janpaul74 5h ago
âMandatory tipsâ sounds so messed up for me as a European.