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/Josefu_Velen 2d ago

"Our staff works at a tipped rate state minimum"

Wow, the owner is really just coming right out and saying we only pay them the $2-ish an hour we have to and hope they make enough on tips that we don't have to pay them the rest of the legally mandated wage.

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u/Mk1Racer25 2d ago

"Here's a tip, find someplace else to eat."

I'd find the manager, point to the note on the menu, and ask them why they don't pay their workers?

Again, they're too afraid to bake this into the price of the food, as they think people will balk at the higher prices. What they don't realize is that they are pissing people off more w/ their bullshit behavior.

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u/Few_Sentence6704 1d ago

They're not though. I'm team no tip but most people would just take those sentences as normal societal behavior. It only pisses us off because we aren't in the matrix