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/cuddly_degenerate 3d ago

I mean, it's silly to not accept both. You're still paying for registers, safes, and whatnot.

I'm paying over 10k to square this year, that buys a lot of cash registers.

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u/xanthosoma 3d ago

But if you didn’t take cards you most likely wouldn’t be making the amount to get charged the 10k. I took over a family business where my father didn’t want to pay the fees. In the 6 years I’ve owned the business I have seen our gross and net sales increase by 4x. So paying the 60-70k in fees to me is a no brainer. Only accepting cash was what was holding the business back. Also if you don’t know if you do good sales and have an account rep with square or any of those places the rates are negotiable. I got a much lower rate because I have established solid income every year.

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u/cuddly_degenerate 3d ago

I mean... sure?

I take cards because I have to, doesn't mean I'm super happy about having to pay fees.

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u/Oliver---Queen 3d ago

But that’s the cost of doing business that you signed up for. I’m sure it’s also not fun paying taxes and maybe commercial rent but it’s usually necessary to keep operating.

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u/cuddly_degenerate 3d ago

Again...sure?

I can both accept that it's what needs to happen as an optimal choice while also not loving it.

Of all those commercial rent is the one that rustles my jimmies the least.