You obviously know nothing of running a business. Labor is always the biggest expense for almost every business there is. Raising minimum wage from 7 to 8 is entirely different from 7.25 to 10.10 which is what Obama is pushing for. That is a huge cost.shintakie10 said:
I'm in college and my girlfriend is a pizza driver. Minimum wage is just over $8 here, but she gets payed less than $5 an hour. Over a week, she averages under $7 an hour because she is often given hours when few people order pizzas. The only times she makes minimum wage are when people tip well.Crazy Zaul said:
But you (presumably) don't tip the person at the counter of your supermarket or expected people to tip you when you were working in retail, you aren't expected to slip extra fivers to your dentist's assistant or donate twenty dollars to Unicef every time you buy some clothes made by Bangladeshi children. Hell, you'd probably do far more good if you used the money you'd use to tip the waiter to do the latter, actually. What annoys me is less people expecting me to be nice enough to help people in shitty situations but rather that they seem to think people in shitty situations working in a business providing what boils down to luxury services are more worthy of my help.Colour Scientist said:
Actually, no. Delivery fees (for the most part, as there's probably rare exceptions) don't go to the driver, they go to the company to cover the increased insurance costs that come from having an employee constantly on the road. Drivers can get around fifty cents to a buck and some change for gas mileage, but that doesn't cover even half of how much delivering costs them, and can still end up spending about half their check (which isn't very big to begin with) on just keeping their car running. If you're not going to tip, that's your choice (though that does seem like a bit of a dick move, seeing how they drove your food all the way to your house in their personal vehicle just so you don't have to get off the couch and get it yourself), but don't use the delivery fee as an excuse.shootthebandit said:
Ive never worked service or retail but I have worked in an argos storeroom (which I suppose is retail) around xmas time and that wasnt too pleasant. I got paid minimum wage and it didnt see a penny in tips for lugging around TVs and kitchen appliances all day. Minimum wage is there for a reason to prevent employees from being ripped off.Colour Scientist said:
So people are being paid less than minimum wage? How is it a minimum wage then unless they are working illegally and not paying any tax or national insurance? Surely its a minimum because people cannot legal earn less than minimum wage. There may as well not be a minimum wage because its clearly not fulfilling its purposeWinthrop said:
For future reference, that's called a "service charge". It's basically the waiter saying he wants a tip or a calculation of 10% of the price to save people who do want to tip, from working it out. It /should/ however be noted as such on the bill and you're not obligated to pay it.DayDark said:
In Austin, going to a "sit down resturant" can mean a great many things. Assuming we discard places that grew from a food truck and the like that leaves us with a selection of places that range from national chains like Chili's to local only places like Perry's. While it is possible at some of these places to get a meal for between 7.5 and 8 dollars, you'd basically have to order with price consciousness in mind at ever step. That means choosing the cheapest entree on the menu, refusing appetizer and desert and only drinking whatever happens to be offered for free. At a low cost national chain, you'd be hard pressed to keep the tab under 8 bucks a person regardless of how frugally you ordered and you'd be forced to eat a meal consisting of things like cheese fries and, to be honest, if you go down that kind of route, why did you go to the restaurant in the first place?PoolCleaningRobot said:
I can only really say from my experience from tipping in Texas, it goes like this. If service was poor to terrible, you can not tip or give very little. If they do what's expected, then it's 10-15%. If they do really well, then you can go higher if you feel like it. It could be because the places I go to eat are places that are busy, and unless you go somewhere constantly, they won't remember you, and won't care in the long run. The way I was taught, tips were a way to basically rate the server, the higher the tip, they know they did well, the lower it is, the worse they did, and they will have to get better if they want to make decent money. It's really hard to tell if the servers are just being friendly so they can get a better tip, or because they are genuine. Usually Genuine friendly people seem to stay as waiters longer.Rainbow_Dashtruction said:
I'm speaking as an Argentine. Here at least I get the feeling waiters and waitresses are pleasantly surprised when you tip them.Rainbow_Dashtruction said:
