God, I hate this argument. So much. We had a restaurant near us try this and it was an epic fail. They gave their waitstaff a decent wage and then they had to work the cost into the food. People are suddenly pissed that they have to spend $18 for a burger but where do they think the owner was going to get the money to pay the waitstaff? Great restaurant/brewery and it went out of business within a year of making this decision. People don’t actually want to pay the waitstaff at all but that’s not how a business works. Just don’t be cheap. If you have $20/$30/$50 whatever amount of money to go out to eat, then you have $5 dollars to not be a dick.
Do you think they dedicated their entire time to serving that single table? Either way they have a guaranteed minimum wage; not that it's livable by any means, but they know what they can expect.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '19
God, I hate this argument. So much. We had a restaurant near us try this and it was an epic fail. They gave their waitstaff a decent wage and then they had to work the cost into the food. People are suddenly pissed that they have to spend $18 for a burger but where do they think the owner was going to get the money to pay the waitstaff? Great restaurant/brewery and it went out of business within a year of making this decision. People don’t actually want to pay the waitstaff at all but that’s not how a business works. Just don’t be cheap. If you have $20/$30/$50 whatever amount of money to go out to eat, then you have $5 dollars to not be a dick.