If you can’t afford to pay your staff, don’t open a restaurant
by Kirito143asuna
If you can’t afford to pay your staff, don’t open a restaurant
by Kirito143asuna
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It’s still fine if I get to decide what I tip, but what do you mean when you want me to tip 20% of the bill? You can’t be serious!
I mean, if you can afford to spend $20 on food but $25 is too expensive, yeah you can’t really afford to eat out
Restaurant owners love it when customers fight each other instead of looking at who pays the actual wages
I’d say it depends on what you mean by “eating out”. In America, if I get bagels in the morning because I don’t have time to put together breakfast before work, I’m not gonna tip because there is no waitress who relies on my tips for a paycheck. It’s just the person behind the counter who is a partial owner of the store who I give constant business cuz I go there often. If I’m eating out at a nice restaurant with my friends and I know my tip goes to the waiter/waitress who served me my food, then yea, I’m gona tip the average (which is 18% rn).
Brit here. Just back from a 3 week trip in America. I never tipped once lol.
Had a few servers follow me outside hummin n hawin about me not leaving a tip and I said “here’s a tip: get a real job like the rest of us”
The part that gets left out of this debate seemingly always is that the STAFF are the ones who want tipping. They make significantly more in tips than they would at $16 an hour.
Tonight I tipped my waitress $156. She had 9 tables, all about the same. She did the same last night and will do the same tomorrow. That’s $4,212 per weekend. This is for race season at a very prominent track in a very prominent club. She will make between $3,000 and $5,000 in tips, per weekend, for 4 months. That’s approx. $64,000 in just tips for roughly 408 hours of work, or $157 an hour.
The idea that she is being exploited is laughable.
And this is at a venue. The bar tender at the Chicago Renaissance Downtown on Lower Whacker did about $205,000 in fiscal 2025, and that’s a hotel bar.
No one loves tips more than the people getting tipped. The people being exploited ARE NOT the staff, it’s me and you.
In the US, you are expected to pay a 20% tip.
Which means its NOT a tip, its a *fee*.
A tip is optional, when a tip *isn’t* optional, its a *fee*
Somehow my country always picks up the worst habits from America
Like i am paying for the food not the service staff, if i have to pay/tip them then i’ll just go in the kitchen ask when my food will be ready and pick it up myself, why am i tipping someone for just picking up my food and putting it in front of me
And that too much more tip than what the food actually cost
how about to shut up and do your job
Laughs in European
I’m all for tipping 10, 15, or 20 percent depending on the service. However, some businesses ask for 20, 23 or 25 percent…..
Me every time to my friend: “If you cannot feed me, then do not open your mouth.” 😂
Literally raise the price 20% and use it to pay your damn workers yourself.
If a tip is required for a service, that’s not a tip. That’s a fee.
If you are choosing to go into a tip-based career, then youve accepted the risk that not everyone is going to tip.
No tipping at all in any situation here in japan and menu item prices and staff salaries are still lower than USA yet society goes on
F tips. A greedy manager is not my liability as a costumer.
Worked BOH a couple of years ago. FOH people love bitching about low wages, but would actively fight people about higher fixed wages if it meant their tips take a hit. They’re just as complicit as restaurant owners.
If you beg or force the tip, you’ll never getting it from me.
Oh and btw…they really dont want your “patronage” so the last panel is bs.