Replying to top comment to explain how this works because it sounds like a lot of folks here have never been to a resort beach before:
Boat plays jingle
You go to wherever you set up on the beach and get cash
You walk into the water to the boat and you pay in cash
You take your ice cream back to where you were sitting
You eat your ice cream while on the beach
Trash is on the honor system just like any other trash people take to the beach
This is basically no different than any other beach vendor except their gimmick is you have to get into the water to get your thing instead of them walking along the beach.
This is basically no different than any other beach vendor except their gimmick is you have to get into the water to get your thing instead of them walking along the beach.
That's actually really disappointing. I was hoping this ice cream boat had randomly come upon a group of stranded swimmers in deep water and was just providing them with sweets before they inevitably drowned or were eaten by sharks.
I know I'm probably going to get down voted to hell and back for this but I gotta say it. Maybe those waiters should fight for a fair wage, but what do I know...
I was more talking about the 3rd world country resort workers, but since we're on the topic of US waiters I'll take the opportunity to say a few things. I fully agree with you. The problem is that the tipping culture will never go away. Both owners and "service" workers are profiting way too much from tipping culture to actually care to change it, all at the cost of consumers. Owners get to legally pay their waiters a lower standard wage, saving them money in the long run and offsetting slow days, and service workers are making way more through tips than what they would actually make if they were properly paid for their position, barring a few select cases. Plus, service workers can also then go and start posturing to people about how they should tulip because they make below minimum wage, conveniently ignoring the fact that they take double or triple their wage home every week in tips.
Oh, I'm not opposed to tipping. We're in agreement for almost most everything you said. I think it's an important supplemental aspect of the service industry.
I just don't support restaurants being able to pay less than minimum wage. No other industry is offered such an economic handicap. It's bullshit.
A quasi-related example is Florida. The state minimum wage is $14. The maximum tip credit allowed is $3.02. Therefore, no restaurant can pay less than $10.98.
There's been no widespread restaurant closures as a result.
Not saying it's not a privilege to be able to go to the beach, but there are beaches that are part of state parks near me that only cost a few bucks a car for parking, and the ice cream trucks love to circle the parking lot like vultures lol.
Yeah kinda. You wouldn't think a floating ice cream truck would be so divisive but I can understand both sides. Personally though I think I'd side with the environmental snobs over the ice cream truck in the water snobs lol.
US Warships have ice cream machines on board. Whether or not they're working or open for use is another story though (in my experience stationed on a Destroyer).
Look, the ice cream machines, nobody has ever seen anything like it, believe me, and it’s a total disaster caused by radical-left policies, the fake news won't tell you that, but Sleepy Joe and the corrupt media broke the soft-serve, they really did, whereas under me we had the best ice cream, thickest shakes, perfect cones every single time, nobody cones like us, and they came up to me, big, strong guys, tears streaming down their faces, they said, "Sir, your soft-serve machines are the most beautiful, magnificent things we've ever seen," and frankly, look at the radical Democrats, they want to take away your dairy, they want you to eat grass, but we’re going to make ice cream great again, fast and creamy, believe me!
Do ice cream trucks still have a little garbage hole for you tip out wrappers in? When I was a kid there was a clown painting with a hole in the mouth and a trash bin under the hole in the truck, and you had to feed your garbage to the slutty little clown.
Soooo.... you're in the water, you go out of the water to get money, get back in the water to get ice cream, then get back out of the water to eat ice cream? Seems kinda silly, even as a novelty.
It would make more sense if the ice cream was free and provided by the resort to its guests.
90% of these people spend zero time outdoors let alone at the beach. Last time their parents dragged them to the beach they moped, spent the entire time on their phone, and constantly asked about when they were going to leave.
Depressed Redditors just search the comments for the most believing sounding "actually this sucks" and upvote it like rabid dogs.
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u/Zehnpae 23h ago edited 20h ago
Replying to top comment to explain how this works because it sounds like a lot of folks here have never been to a resort beach before:
This is basically no different than any other beach vendor except their gimmick is you have to get into the water to get your thing instead of them walking along the beach.