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https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/workforce/casa-bonita-workers-demand-return-tipping#:~:text=Shortly%20before%20opening%2C%20Casa%20Bonita's,wage%20of%20%2430%20per%20hour.

Shortly before opening, Casa Bonita’s new owners Matt Stone and Trey Parker decided to eliminate tipping and instead pay workers a flat wage of $30 per hour.

Now I could be wrong, but getting a an hourly wage as a restaurant worker is FAR better than relying on tips. I feel like either workers in this situation are too obsessed with tips or there’s huge context missing.

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[-] Othello@hexbear.net 50 points 11 months ago

yall are underestimating how much some waiters make. especially if you are conventionally attractive.

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 35 points 11 months ago

it's also kinda messed up to have people on a grading pay scale of how attractive they are

[-] Othello@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

oh definitely fucked up, im just saying theres a lot of people who enjoy that perk, not that i think its right, especialy since the beauty standard is racist, ablelist, ect. trying to show why many people are against getting rid of tipping.

[-] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

I think I'm about at that age where what little pretty privilege I had gets a surprise revoking (at least without excess makeup incantations), so I'm glad to pull that ladder up behind me. Actually this bad take is unnecessary, AI and posadism will tag team the economy. Don't worry about it.

[-] janny@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

Yep which is a good thing. People pretend to hate tipping because of some foo pro-worker stance but it's really because middle income people can't stand the idea of unskilled labor making more than them and having to pay extra for their treats

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No it’s because it’s an extremely anti-labor scab movement of Americans and other westoids. These people don’t want to pool tips with back of house, they want to gut the wages for everyone and keep all the tips for the conventionally attractive (white, cis) front of house workers. Otherwise they wouldn’t be using arguments like “we don’t have to pay taxes on tips” because that’s only true if you don’t pool/split tips.

You wouldn’t support pay discrimination based on politeness and conventional attractiveness, but tips come into the suggestion and suddenly you do

[-] WalterBongjammin@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

You're all over this thread calling the workers scabs when the article says they were asking for a pooled-tip structure. At least read the thing before hurling insults at people

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You are right, I read several comments in the thread stating the back-of-house wasn't being included and just assumed they were right. I've deleted the comments and have now read the article. Tipping is still an anti-labor practice that employers love.

[-] WalterBongjammin@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Ayyy, no worries and I appreciate you acknowledging the mistake stalin-heart I don't really know enough about the issue to have a very strong opinion on it, I was mainly just annoyed that so few people in the thread seemed to have read the thing they were responding to, but I'm also guilty of that quite often on here! Do you know of anything I can read to get better informed?

[-] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

I've worked at restaurants that did "pooled tips" that did not include boh in the pool FWTW.

[-] Othello@hexbear.net 49 points 11 months ago

i half agree. black waiters make significantly less regardless of quality of service so theres clearly some downsides of tipping culture. pooling tips is a kinda solution. having a high hourly wage on top of tipping is ideal.

[-] janny@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago

Agreed, pooling tips should be legally required accross the board

[-] asret@lemmy.zip 9 points 11 months ago

Or, you know, just pay people properly in the first place. If you're going to reach for legislation why target tips?

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago

In those places the people who actually make the food don't take home any tips and get paid just above minimum wage.

[-] jackalope@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Lmao, trying to spin this as bougie is hilarious.

[-] Dalek@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

Like Rachel from Friends...

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