25% Gratuity plus Tax - Seriously?

[Formshifter]

Originally Posted by Glenzig [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Be a man. Cook your own food.

[myriverse]

Originally Posted by Troubled [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Generally, servers don't give a shit and half the time they don't even bring out your food, especially in a 13 top. I don't see why the generally accepted gratuity went up from 15% to 20% in the first place, and now 25% on that bill. The cost of the food keeps going up, so they get more anyway. When will it end? When the tip is as much as the food bill? I understand them putting it on the bill, however.

Unless you're getting your own food, servers are bringing it out. Servers are not just waiters.

And they very likely split the tip between them.

[Burrito]

Imagine if restaurants just paid their employees a normal salary and nobody had to tip anymore.

[MrSparkle001]

Originally Posted by Burrito [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Imagine if restaurants just paid their employees a normal salary and nobody had to tip anymore.

You'd spend $50 on a small steak dinner then and nobody would go out to eat.

[Formshifter]

Originally Posted by MrSparkle001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You'd spend $50 on a small steak dinner then and nobody would go out to eat.

Commoners would, but those rich and dumb enough to pay hundreds for a 6 course meal consisting of about 8 bites of food would.

[DetroitVelvetSmooth]

Originally Posted by MrSparkle001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You'd spend $50 on a small steak dinner then and nobody would go out to eat.

The price of the food would go up 15-20% is what would happen. And the kitchen would also riot ever as the cooks finally realize that they all make 12 bucks an hour while all the servers make more than double that. One of the more wildly overpaid jobs in the world is food delivery engineer in case people were unaware. Made possible by widespread abuse of illegal immigrant workers!

[TheBlackSheep]

This begs the question. With this trend towards raising the minimum wage into the $10 an hour range that is sweeping some of the states, I assume the hourly wage for wait staff would increase as would the cost of the menu as a whole. Adding gratuity becomes an even more annoying practice that could really hurt the restaurant business.

[myriverse]

Originally Posted by Burrito [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Imagine if restaurants just paid their employees a normal salary and nobody had to tip anymore.

Now you're talking Socialism.

[Bodybagger]

Originally Posted by myriverse [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Now you're talking Socialism.

No, socialism is us supporting the wait staff that the big companies refuse to pay honest wages to... just like the way our taxes subsidize incomes for min wage employees at companies who post billions in profit every year.... [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
We as the consumer pay their wages so corporate greed can exist in absurd amounts because the top 1% are disgusting greedy fucks and trickle down economoics simply do not work, but poor people are too stupid to understand any of it, and rich people are too rich to stop.

[katrik]

Why the hell are you complaining about tipping..? Go to a Mcdonalds if you don't like it. Poor ass *****.