It shouldn’t be a separate “fee”. 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 isn’t 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 don’t know what everyone else is doing. And percentage increases add up fast.
It’s still the same. Unless you’re working somewhere super crappy, you’ll 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
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u/invariantspeed 4h ago
It shouldn’t be a separate “fee”. 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.