If you can’t afford to pay your staff, don’t open a restaurant
by Shielo34
If you can’t afford to pay your staff, don’t open a restaurant
by Shielo34
25 Comments
Can’t believe millennials and gen z are killing the overpriced mediocre food market!!1
If a company can’t afford to pay their workers the workers should get upset at the company, not the human strangers they think should be paying their paycheck instead.
It’s not a tip, it’s called doing your job and getting paid for it by your boss like a normal person…
Restaurants have brainwashed every waitress and waiter in the country somehow
Tips are optional.
Dear waiters, I’m not your employer, my responsibility is not to pay you for doing your job – take that up to your boss if you feel like you’re not earning enough.
If you can’t afford to pay your employees (*your* employees, as your clients didn’t employ anyone), then you’re not able to run your business. Or you’re skimming too much off the top.
jobs relying on wealthfare shouldn’t be tolerated
If most people refused to tip, the problem might go away over the years.
A lot of people don’t realize this, but most restaurants offer either a fairly livable wage (but no tips) OR bare minimum plus tips. Servers almost always choose tips because it pays better. That’s why they often try to guilt-trip and brainwash people online since they have a vested interest in it. Why should a customer finance your bad choices? I’m not paying you 20% just because you walked two meters with a tray. If anything, I’d rather pay the cook because they did 99% of the job, and contrary to you, can’t easily be replaced.
I’m from the UK and I’d much rather cook at home than eat out now. The stuff I make is tastier, healthier, cheaper and bigger portions than how inflated restaurant prices are getting.
Although not as bad as America, we have service charges and tipping creeping into our culture.
Just ate at a place that forces 18% gratuity onto the bill if you eat in the restaurant. I would’ve just walked out, but the wife wanted to eat there, for mother’s day.
Then they still have the screen up asking for a tip… If it up to me I won’t go there again.
Good. Don’t go out to eat. This whole “tipping culture sucks” mentality is so fucking annoying. I’m going to tip even harder.
If you can’t afford tip then you can’t afford the real price of the meal.
Companies can pay a fair wage and you should still tip.
As a side I wonder what ops stance on Patreon and Kofi is.
“But… but inflation encourages spending, bro!”
Reality:
Here’s a tip… don’t judge if someone’s doesn’t tip, it’s not there fault the company doesn’t pay their workers good
America sure sounds like an amazing place to live
Paying your staff is not my responsibility.
If everyone stopped tipping the food service industry would have to pay a livable wage. I work as a server/delivery driver (whichever is needed) and I never tip, and I’d be happy if no one ever tipped anyone rather than this “I feel I have to” culture.
You’re paying the same money either way, the server just doesn’t pay taxes on it if you tip cash or up to $10k or whatever it is now of tips on their check. You complaining that the government isn’t getting their fair share is ridiculous. Nobody is ever as pro-government as people who hate tipping culture
Edit:and by paying the same either way I mean food would be way more expensive with higher wage employees and no tips.
I’m so glad tipping culture isn’t cooked here
If you refuse to tip your waiter and claim you’re doing it to improve their situation…. you’re not. You’re just an asshole who didn’t tip and is harming the very service workers you claim you care about.
And then the 2026 version of your thing tastes like garb. Straight doodoo butter. Hard pass.
just honestly fuck tipping in general, only the US does that
10-15% is a perfectly fine tip and i do not tip unless i am at a sit in restaurant.
Please stop tipping me and fill out the survey instead
“if we paid proper wages nobody would buy the food😭”
Its not that I can’t afford to tip. It’s that alot of these places that have no buisness asking for a tip are now asking for it, so damn near everywhere has it, and they seem to think that a percentage should also go up with inflation.