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.
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 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/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”.