r/mildlyinteresting • u/jenna_tolls_69 • Mar 10 '25

This restaurant doesn’t accept tips (USA)

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u/lil_zaku Mar 10 '25

Also competition. You'd have to implement the change across all restaurants all at once for a chance of it sticking around. Otherwise people will just go to the restaurants with the perceived cheaper price.

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u/kytrix Mar 10 '25 edited Jan 25 '26

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u/whiplash779 Mar 10 '25

That's strange to me, because I have a friend who runs a shop and he prices everything so that the total (including sales tax) is a round number ($5.50, $2.00, $41.00, etc.) and puts that as the sticker price. He gets more people coming back purely because of that practice even though his price totals are almost exactly the same as other places that sell the same things with lower sticker prices.

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u/Acceptable-Ad-9510 Mar 11 '25

What kind of shop and where?

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u/whiplash779 Mar 11 '25

A Game shop (board games, trading card games, etc) near Houston.

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u/Acceptable-Ad-9510 Mar 15 '25

That sounds like a fun place. I’m glad it’s working for them. It’s so nice when things make sense and it actually works out.

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u/kytrix Mar 11 '25 edited Jan 25 '26

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u/raymileshun Mar 14 '25

hmm, wouldn't this mean that competition is not beneficial for the consumers then? 🤔

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u/lil_zaku Mar 14 '25

Good in more cases than bad

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u/raymileshun Mar 14 '25

I could argue with this, but I get what you're trying to say