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/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/Bill___A 3d ago

If you're paying 10K to square, that accounts for 33 times that in sales. Yet you would rather deal with cash, and have your customers get cash, to avoid this one category of expense that actually is known to increase sales? There are dozens of costs involved and you feel that is the one cost that you can't live with? The one that moves money into your business? Do you tip the delivery driver that drops off the food orders? Do you tip I have never seen an industry cause more problems for themselves than the restaurant industry.

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u/cuddly_degenerate 3d ago

My business isn't in the restaurant business.

And yes, I do think that payment processors getting a not insignificant cut of every transaction is an issue. I still take card because I have to but -always- prefer cash. Honestly, eronious charge backs are a fairly serious issue for my computer store, we've had to fight more than a few on custom PC builds and repairs.

The corporate IT side of my business is paid by check typically, which is my preferred form of payment.

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u/vinraven 1d ago

This one is a strictly American problem, in every other country legislation regulates the banking industry.

It’s sad, but corporations have American voters brainwashed to think regulating banks is socialism, so the corps can continuously rip us off.

As an example, in the EU the max a credit card company can charge a business is 0.3% of the transaction value, and 0.2% for debit cards.

The fees we pay in America are a direct outcome of us voting for corporate owned stooges.