tipping is stupid
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j-jameson — 14 years ago(March 12, 2012 07:06 PM)
So you are saying:
Steak cost for your restaurant is 10,50$/steak and with 15$ your winning is 4,50$/steak sold. This is your worst margin scenario, because pasta for example is more expensive.
So, lets do the small numbers math and say you are currently selling 500 steaks a day which earns you winnings of 2250$. (This means that with 6 waiters in a 9 hour shift every waiter has to carry out 9,2 orders every hour - which means 1,5 orders in every 10 minutes - which I assume is a pretty slow speed of working as a waiter.)
You are employing 6 waiters and paying each of them from an 9 hour shift 2.15$/h which gives each waiter 19,35$/day. Overall you pay all of them together 116$/day then. (This equals the amount of winnings that you gain from selling 25 steaks!)
So, like you said, giving 6 waiters a salary of 7.15$, instead of 2.15$, for a 9h shift would mean the rise in restaurants expenses with 270$/day.
Next, we have to return to the amount of 500 steaks sold. Current price is 15$/steak so just to add the new salary price to the steaks would mean 270$ divided to 500 steaks. This would rise the steak price from 15$ to 15.54$.
Conclusions: YOU WOULD ONLY HAVE TO CHARGE 0,54$ MORE / STEAK NOT THE 6$ YOU ARE REFERING TO. - Or if you are serious with the 6$, you are saying your restaurant only serves 45 steaks/day, which means every waiter would serve 0.83 orders/hour so they are not doing much are they? I can't see any busines just having employees to hang around doing nothing, so I just assume you are wrong with your numbers. NOTICE THAT HE TOLD ME THE STEAK HAS THE WORST PROFIT MARGING So in reality the steak price wouldn't rise even close to 0,54$/steak.
And finally the advantages: 1)Waiters get paid decent even if they don't receive tips. 2)Tipping can be optional only when you were extra happy with the service. 3)Many people would still want to tip some, no problem. 4)Restaurant gets good reputation for paying a decent wages. 5)Human work is valued more from the start. 6)General publics opinion could get higher from the waiting profession (?). 7)Service will be even better because waiters are happier with their wage and still know they can get a tip occasionally. 8)NO ONE HAS TO "WORRY" ABOUT TIPPING OR WAITERS WAGES ANYMORE. 9)World will be a little bit better place for everyone? -
jeffnova — 11 years ago(August 06, 2014 12:15 AM)
Also, do I really want to be served by someone who's gonna make the same $8 an hour whether the service is good or lackluster or piss poor for that matter? Hope you don't mind getting Taco Bell service instead of full service cuz that's what $8 an hour pays for.
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TheFatDruidofNacyl — 12 years ago(February 12, 2014 05:25 AM)
I think instead of people getting mad at not getting the tips, they should work on having their employer increase their wage. The employer can increase the price of the food 15 to 20% to pay for the increase of the wage. This way customers don't need to feel guilted into tipping. Instead they can still offer a tip if they get great service.
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dono638 — 11 years ago(July 02, 2014 01:02 AM)
I dont understand why I have to keep saying thisTHAN FIND ANOTHER JOB!!! and to the poster who said I would not survive in your worldbeen there buddy. I worked at McDonalds and not only was I a waiter(yes at my mcdonalds we have waiters) but I was also the order taker, the prep guy, and the drive through attendant(and occasionally had to cook as well) so I did live in your world, and never did i complain about not getting a tip, now if you cant handle your wage without tip than go somewhere that pays better, and I dont want to hear the "oh there are not any jobs" you could work at probably any fast food chain, any corporate grocery chain, but you choose not toyou wanna know why? Because you probably think that those jobs are demeaning to you. Now I will admit I do not know you so I cannot technically say that, but I am assuming that is the general idea from restuarant workers. I am not going to pay you more than I am already doing, just so you can keep your sense of honor by not going to one of these are other places. Now I feel I do need to clarify, I am not against tipping in general, I am against the egotistical idea that if you are a waiter or waitress or barber or etcyou should automatically get a tip just because you were nice and did your job. Its the self entitlement that drives me insane.
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Samuraibro — 9 years ago(August 26, 2016 12:25 PM)
Have you been on a job hunt within the last 10 years? I doubt it because if you had you would know that not everyone can just go out and "get another job".
Entitled people like you drive me crazy.
If you don't want to tip, don't go out to eat. I don't give a damn about your "morals" or your made up "principals" for not tipping. If you hate tipping so much then advocate for servers, bussers, hairdressers, and other people who make less than the bare bones minimum wage we have now to be paid more. Until then, shut up and get off your high horse. -
pantherfan99 — 11 years ago(July 12, 2014 08:28 PM)
I used to be a bagger at Publix (first job) We were not allowed to take tips , it was grounds for firing, I got in trouble a couple of times but never fired for that. It seemed unfair not to take tips while working there. We had to push those shopping full of groceries to the customers' cars in the hot Florida sun.
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Dino_Riders — 9 years ago(June 19, 2016 09:05 PM)
You just answered your OWN dumb ass question.. -Why do we tip for bartenders, servers, and barbers?- Because NONE of those occupations in America do the people make an actual wage. Servers make server pay which is typically around minimum wage 15 years before.. Like Servers in Florida make only 5.50 dollars an hour now in 2016, but have to claim 10 percent of their sales on their taxes as per the government rule, so if you don't tip a waiter then usually they are paying for you meal, or a large portion of it. You are also BEING SERVED, are you a king? Bartenders operate much the same as servers, so the same rule applies, but a barber is totally different. A stylist, or barber doesn't get paid at all, and actually has to pay "rent" on their booth -the little station your highness sits in when he gets his hair cut-.. They also have to usually give a portion of their sales to the shop, and pay for their own supplies..They also, usually wash your hair for effing free. Again I ask are you royalty of some sort, do you not understand how us common-folk live our lives with handouts? Or are you just a beep beep
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sistik — 9 years ago(December 10, 2016 06:13 PM)
Tip strippers, they only work on tips and have to pay the house just to work there.
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