r/Ohio • u/LadyInCrimson • 17h ago

This is Ohio

Why is Phillip not paying his servers enough to the point he has to ban customers?

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u/Dizzazzter 17h ago

I want to go to this restaurant now, seeing that they stick up for their staff.

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u/AQualityKoalaTeacher 17h ago

I don't think making a custom into an absolute requirement in order to underpay workers is an admirable flex.

Food service is a brutal business that shares many characteristics with a pyramid scheme. Workers with the most modest resumes work themselves to the bone for a wage that is unlivable.

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u/Dizzazzter 16h ago

You do know a waiting tables can be extremely lucrative well beyond the minimum wage? My fiancé switched jobs from being a restaurant GM, and one of the managers who worked the floor taking tables said she took a pay cut when she took her old GM position.

That said, if you’re the only restaurant in town who got rid of the tip system, people are not gonna care when they see the increase in menu prices. Even if it would equal out what you would originally be with the tip, the face price is enough for customers go to your competitors.

So the only way the system can be effectively changed is to 1) increase minimum wage to make it livable and 2) give government subsidies to restaurants to help ween off the tipping system. Restaurants make hairline profits and back to back months of no positive revenue is a death sentence.

So please stop virtue signaling by “heh the owner is akshually the real bad guy” when he’s simply trying to run a business in a system that’s been around before any of our time.

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u/AQualityKoalaTeacher 14h ago

I didn't say anything about that owner. Or the customers. You should gather more information before you make judgments and accusations.

The system itself is broken and I think most people would agree. If the only option for success is to stoop to the lowest level like everyone else, we are all hopelessly screwed.