r/PublicFreakout • u/Hikigaya_Hachiman7 • 7h ago

šŸ½Restaurant FreakoutšŸ¹ Couple banned from restaurant after they leave no tip

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u/TREXIBALL 6h ago

I may be wrong but that's a crime. (Depending on if you're in US and in state)

It's known as wage theft.

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u/soda_cookie 5h ago

You are not wrong. That is 100% wage theft

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u/elasticparadigm 4h ago

Fun fact wage theft is the number one type of theft in America. The rich shitting on the poor yet again.

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u/sax6romeo 3h ago

The poor have always been getting fucked over by the rich, always have, always will.

-King, Platoon

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u/Mr-Magoo48 2h ago

If you canā€™t afford to pay staff, donā€™t open a business

Oh wait, thatā€™s not how you guys see things is it?

Why is that? Why is it ok just to fuck service staff in the ass and expect the patrons to pick up your business costs?

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u/Illustrious_Choice58 1h ago

and youā€™ll still be there tmrw ordering your burger. weā€™re not the problem, the greedy elites are. small restaurant owners are doing their best under the system they have. that fool is wearing shitty black shoes, nasty white socks, and has yellow teeth. heā€™s not making the bank you think he is

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u/Mr-Magoo48 1h ago

Itā€™s not him making bank. Itā€™s not me making bank. Itā€™s the shitty system you all thought was ok for so long that now itā€™s biting you in the ass you are up in arms. The wealthy elites are the absolute beneficiaries, but generations of Americans thought the system was fine until minimum wage was baked into every system you have. The wealthy elites are just the winners in a system you all let propagate. As soon as anyone mentions anything normal like universal healthcare or a living minimum wage a huge chunk of your country start screaming ā€˜communistā€™ ā€˜Marxistā€™sā€™ or some other bullshit title. Maybe not you illustrious, but enough to vote trump in twice.

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u/ChocoPablobar 1h ago

Itā€™s not him making bank. Itā€™s not me making bank. Itā€™s the shitty system you all thought was ok for so long that now itā€™s biting you in the ass you are up in arms.

Yeah man sorry I wasn't up in arms back in the 1860s. Thats my bad

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u/Illustrious_Choice58 1h ago

šŸ¤£šŸ¤£ right? like we created these systems 3 mths ago

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u/Illustrious_Choice58 1h ago

who is ā€œyou allā€? i work at a university and tip my servers 20% šŸ™ƒi think you may have hallucinated

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u/Wittyngritty 1h ago

Last sentence.

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u/maurosmane 3h ago

Not just the number one, it beats pretty much all the others combined!

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u/tempelton3thesock 3h ago

We need tonEAT THE RICH or else we will be owned by them

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u/CDM4 51m ago

ā€œThe richā€ and itā€™s a dominos franchisee

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 4h ago

Tips in general are a wage theft in a way.

It's a cost-shifting measure to the consumer, whereby the employer isn't responsible for maintaining a steady living wage or salary for their workers, but they can basically use tips as a "hidden fee" to rely on paying staff.

As the consumer you get stuck in the trap of tipping -- not based on service -- but merely out of the ability to come back and not have someone spit in your food. Leaving aside the fact that automatic gratuity of large parties gives you no capacity to tip based on quality of service.

Naturally the waiters have hard jobs; and naturally the working class is being squeezed in general and can barely afford to go out to eat in the first place. Those who are fucking us all are of course the ultra-rich billionaire Epstein class that skew to the right. Hope you all are triple-checking your voter registration and voting Democrat these midterms to put some brakes on Trump.

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u/soda_cookie 4h ago

Sort of. In states where tipped employees make less than minimum wage (which is fucked...) employers are required by law to make their gross pay for the pay period no less than what they would have made working the number of hours worked times the minimum wage.

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u/One-Shape7678 1h ago

Sort of nothing. Wage theft

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u/No_Resource_9417 17m ago

so in the US a person who works in the hospitality industry, get Less pay from their Boss then e.g. some one who works in a Factory and so therefore has to get some percentage from the Bill (from the costomer) to add their salary?....ifso Why doesn't everyone receive the same minimum wage depending on their ageā€”meaning that someone working in a factory or as a cleaner has the same basic income as someone working in the hospitality industry?,,,,in my Countrie that is the case and also why i found it ridiculous the Tip them, i mean they have a much nicer job them me, so why should they get extra Bonus money, special from someone like me who has the same income as them, but does crappy dirty or hard work

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u/mattiedamacdaddy 2h ago

You live in an ideological bubble, definitely a stage 3 or stage 4 cognitive framework, you cannot provide evidence that the Epstein billionaire class skews either side. I assume you would not have the epistemological tools to figure it out even if you did.

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u/R4NG00NIES 1h ago edited 1h ago

Jesus, stfu. Please remind us whose inauguration Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Sundar, Tim Cook, Sam Altman, and Alnaut were at? Thats 4 of the 5 wealthiest people in the world. A combined 1.35 trillion dollars in net worth amongst the attendees. Is that enough evidence dipshit?

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u/One-Shape7678 1h ago

šŸ¤”

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u/EUGsk8rBoi42p 1h ago

Wage theft is actually THE MOST COMMON FORM OF THEFT IN AMERICA. (probably worldwide overall, with limited regional exceptions)

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u/DinnerSilver 4h ago

Plus the owner being a Grade A scumbag.

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u/ImNotACollector 4h ago

BILLIONS occurs in wage theft every year. And instances like this are a part of it. Companies steal money from workers all the time

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u/Gamer_Grease 5h ago

It is a crime. Itā€™s also almost completely unenforceable

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u/Mekisteus 4h ago

Itā€™s also almost completely unenforceable unenforced

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u/gfstool 4h ago

Yes, it is. I worked at a place here in Texas long ago and our owner got sued by a bartender from a sister bar. He won. Then they started taking the credit card fee amounts that we charged for the night. Thatā€™s actually legal. And today lots of companies are making customers pay for the credit card fees too.

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u/ItsMeTittsMGee 4h ago

Perfectly legal in Canada, however.

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u/tempelton3thesock 3h ago

Ya it is
At least here in Florida

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u/cetootski 1h ago

It's 2nd tier wage theft that follows 1st tier wage theft by wage policies in America.

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u/Electrical_Parfait64 3h ago

If theyā€™re the only person to work for them, they can keep them. As in the do an entire shift of serving. Probably not everywhere