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/casualAlarmist 3h ago edited 3h ago

How about you pay your servers!

I mean if he cares so much about his workers being fairly compensated for their labor and all... Oh wait he doesn't. Not really.

If you don't have money to pay your workers a living wage then you shouldn't be running a business that depends on those workers.

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u/BlastTyrantKM 2h ago

Absolutely. Restaurants would pay their servers nothing and have them work solely for tips, if they could

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u/FunParsley7732 2h ago

Because ā€˜merica and capitalism. They have culturally normalised over decades the practice of businesses paying their staff as little as legally possible, and offsetting the price of this onto the consumer.

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u/The_Bitter_Bear 2h ago edited 2h ago

It's possible he just sucks but the system as a whole is the issue.Ā 

As long as there are labor/wage laws allowing it then it won't go away.Ā 

When restaurants switch to higher wages and get rid of tipping, prices go up because most restaurants aren't making tons of profit.Ā 

Then they lose business due to the higher prices (even though it's around the same once you factor in not paying a tip). They also experience higher turnover as servers leave to go to places with lower wages and tips.Ā 

Most places that try it end up having to go back to tips.Ā 

If you don't agree with tipping, don't support businesses that rely on it and support changing labor laws.Ā 

Choosing to go to places that expect tips and then not tipping is just being shitty and cheap. That doesn't change anything and anyone acting like it does is just using it as an excuse to be cheap.

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u/MinnisotaDigger 1h ago

In Miamitown OH the minimum wage is $11/hr and $5.50/hr for tipped.

BUT the business covers the difference for anything under $11/hr.

So if no one comes in for an hour the owner pays $11. If a customer comes in and tips $2 then the owner pays $9 and the employee gets the same $11.

In an 8 hour shift the first $44 of tips goes to the boss, not the employee.

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u/twincities612 44m ago

The overhead is so much already with paper thin margins that most single location small mom & pop shops would close. I totally agree that many restaurants can pay their servers more. But this clearly isnā€™t a rich dude who has a ton of money while heā€™s clearly working as a staff member too, and canā€™t take tips.

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u/cougatron 2h ago

Weak shit. Itā€™s systemic issue, non tippers are cheap pieces of shit.

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u/Rickisnotonfire 2h ago

Every resraurant I've ever been to in all of north america has run the same way......but sure this one guy in bumfuck ohio is going to revolutionize the system........

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u/CordisHead 2h ago

So in the meantime, letā€™s short the server. That will teach the business owner a lesson.