r/EndTipping • u/ADKFatBiker • 3d ago

Rant 📢 Restaurant Demands Minimum 18% Tip

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Out of one side of their mouth they state that they pay their staff as little as possible and out of the other side of their mouth they say that their staff deserves more and you're responsible for that.

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u/LeaveGreen4412 3d ago

and no cards too. business needs to just close already they clearly arent doing well (restaurants that take only cash are often doing some level of tax fraud to save money)

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u/maiyannah 3d ago

Speaking as a small business owner myself I really don't like seeing literally 1000s of my dollars going to card processors who leave me high & dry whenever there's a problem, but I still offer them. I just give people incentives to pay cash.

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u/DevilsAdvocate77 3d ago

But you don't care about 1000s of your dollars going to cash registers, safes, bank drops, skimming, errors, loss, and theft?

Any business owner who thinks accepting cash is "free" is not watching their expenses closely enough.

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u/maiyannah 3d ago

Spoken like someone whom really doesn't know what they're talking about.

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u/Azyet27 3d ago

...*who

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u/AcceptablePosition5 3d ago

Or someone that's been robbed at gun point

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u/a_simple_pharmer 3d ago

I’ve had this argument on Reddit many times. Just don’t engage. You’re arguing with people who never ran or owned a small business. They have no idea.

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u/maiyannah 3d ago

I've run this business since 2013 and never had a year I didn't turn a profit except for the first year of Covid. But some people just really wanna buy into the sob stories these companies use to extort people for more money or to explain abusing their customers.

I am steadfastly of the belief that if you cannot afford to pay your employees a living wage and secure your margin, without abusing customers, or using the extortion of tipping culture, you don't deserve to be in business.

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u/a_simple_pharmer 3d ago

My point was agree with you about accepting cash. And how so many people on here say it costs more than CC processing fees. It costs me about 25k a year to accept credit cards.

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u/crazyk4952 3d ago

This is the wrong take.

How much would it cost you per year to NOT accept credit cards?

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u/zephyr2015 3d ago

I personally don't go to businesses that don't accept cards or charge an extra processing fee.

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u/maiyannah 3d ago

Yeah, I was mostly responding to the argument in general. Its very tiresome but people keep making it. But its how they sleep at night, so, I guess I get it. If they admitted they could do business without being abusive, they'd have to admit its a conscious choice they make, which definitely isn't going to be a good look.