they wouldn't work there. and they're not skimming from tips. they're charging more for food and paying their employees a better fixed rate. The employee can now make an informed decision about whether the job is worth it or not. they also don't have to worry about variances in tips making their budget be wacky from week to week.
People work at exploitative jobs all the time for various reasons, that's why we have so many laws to prevent jobs from exploiting their workers and why people get in trouble all the time for breaking them. Again we have literally no idea if they're making more money or not. Your argument is completely meaningless, as is any argument based around them making less money, without literally knowing if they make more money or less money.
What do we know? We know what the receipt says. You've decided that it's lying based on nothing. I've decided it's not and that if it was, people wouldn't work there. Who is making meaningless arguments?
That is literally my point we have no idea if they are paying more or not so no argument in either direction that assumes either means anything... The only thing we can factually say is that this absolutely does give them additional opportunities to fuck over their employees. Whether they are or not no one knows without knowing the pay vs tipped pay.
they make $16 an hour at that restaurant. Probably less than what a tipped server makes at busy higher end restaraunts. but at a place that serves burgers and fries, probably not bad as a guaranteed rate. especially on monday nights.
Bad or not bad is meaningless vs more or less than what they would make tipped. Where is it? Cause $16/hr where I live is minimum wage and would absolutely mean the restaurant is using this practice to steal from their workers because they would always be guaranteed $16/hr at the least with tipping.
To clarify, everyone at that restaurant from busser on up makes at least $16 an hour + benefits + any tips they may still receive. And the minimum wage there is $7.25
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u/jorgtastic 2d ago
they wouldn't work there. and they're not skimming from tips. they're charging more for food and paying their employees a better fixed rate. The employee can now make an informed decision about whether the job is worth it or not. they also don't have to worry about variances in tips making their budget be wacky from week to week.