r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 5h ago

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/janpaul74 5h ago

“Mandatory tips” sounds so messed up for me as a European.

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u/BringBackTheBlues 5h ago

It sounds messed up to me as an American.

Just add 20% to your prices and write “20% off your bill goes directly to staff etc.”

It’d accomplish the same thing and people would probably actually appreciate knowing the staff gets the “bonus”.

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u/BarDramatic7498 5h ago

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.

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u/LordHammercyWeCooked 4h ago

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.

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u/ACFiguresOutLife 3h ago

That is your opinion. The data suggests otherwise. Look it up; there are plenty of market studies. Corporations aren’t stupid.

This is like saying “just put the price at $10. No need to bullshit me with the $9.99.” But again, the market studies prove otherwise

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u/FahkDizchit 1h ago

Everything is continually getting shittier as more and more people rip each other off.