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I can’t believe I’m siding with the South Park guys here (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by Walk_On@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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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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[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 89 points 9 months ago

You're looking at a magazine called restaurant business online. They have another article about a bunch of people calling the protest of the Israeli PR person's restaurant "anti-semitic".

[-] TupamarosShakur@hexbear.net 76 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes, the workers are wrong. This is a better way to do it. Unfortunately, many waiters really do come out ahead with tipping, especially those working at higher end restaurants, conventionally attractive by euro standards, or just really good people skills, so they argue tipping is good actually. It benefits some individually, but collectively a lot do not end up with more money this way. It’s part of the whole pull yourself up by your bootstraps ideology - yes you theoretically could do better with tipping, but how many do, compared with the many who don’t? But of course restaurantbusinessonline would prefer business owners still be paying less than minimum wage, so they find those workers whose interests for whatever reason line up with theirs.

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[-] Othello@hexbear.net 50 points 9 months ago

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

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 35 points 9 months ago

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

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[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 50 points 9 months ago

some tipped workers come out ahead in effective wage, but it's fleeting and a bad way to organize society

i wouldn't put it past the park brothers to be screwing them over in some other way and the "return to tipping" is just sensationalized from the old benefits being better and "we want the previous deal" being easier to argue for as labor.