• Drusas@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If you can’t afford to pay your employees a decent wage, you should raise your prices or you shouldn’t be in business.

    There are a few places here in Seattle which have eliminated tipping, raised prices, and raised wages. I greatly prefer this, personally speaking. Add no, I’m not going to start tipping every random cashier just because they start prompting me to.

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      1 year ago

      The problem is - restaurants in most parts of the states cannot reliably do that. They’re going to see a higher price and they’re probably walking out soon after. Or worse - they stay and leave a shit review because they set their expectations at a higher bar of food quality than was provided.

      If we could unilaterally remove exemptions for tipped wages, I’d see the possibility of it becoming much more common.

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        1 year ago

        Most restaurants in America as they exist now should not exist. We’re essentially all subsidizing low quality, frozen food.

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        1 year ago

        So these people are willing to tip for naff food but not pay more to begin with?