Posted on 06/23/2021 5:25:01 AM PDT by Enlightened1
“Where should we eat tomorrow?” my wife asked me excitedly as we sat on our deck Friday evening.
She had locked down a babysitter for Saturday night, and we were both eager for our first dinner date alone together in months.
“Broders’,” I answered without hesitation.
Located in southwest Minneapolis, Broders Pasta Bar is a local gem. It has a great outdoor patio and the best Italian cuisine in the Twin Cities. We had not eaten there since the pandemic began.
My wife nodded and started to make a reservation on her phone. Then her jaw dropped.
“You’re not going to like this,” she said.
On its website, Broders’ has a notice to customers notifying them of a new 15 percent “benefits and equity” charge they’ve instituted. They justify the charge, first, by explaining that “many states have allowed reduced minimum wages for service staff in the form of a tip credit.” (More on this in a minute.)
The restaurant’s second justification is that many tippers are racist and sexist, according to uncited research.
“Studies have also shown that there is inequity and built-in bias in the way consumers give tips,” the statement reads. “In general, Black or Brown servers receive less tips than Caucasian servers. There is gender bias as well.”
The final part of the statement says the new policy stems from wider racial injustice and is not a substitute for gratuity.
“In the wake of racial injustice protests and the closures due to Covid, now is the time for Broders’ to reimagine its economics and provide fair pay across the company,” the statement reads. “Our Benefits & Equity Charge is applied entirely to employee compensation. This supplement helps us to set a $16 minimum hourly wage for customer facing employees, $18 minimum hourly wage for kitchen employees… Altogether this allows everyone in our company to earn a real living wage. The 15% Benefits & Equity Charge is not a gratuity.”
I’ve been to restaurants in Miami. So what they did was to add 20% gratituty to each check. This restaurant could have down the same instead of making up names to pies off people.
That's why my black mother always make sure she pays good tips. My white father gets the best service though (for obvious reasons).
"Reimagining" is quite the rage these days. The adults among us call that "fantasizing". It doesn't work very well on economics. The closure of that feminist restaurant that put a surcharge on any male customers stupid enough to wander in is a case in point. Reimagine that.
If I saw that on my bill, I’d tell them 3 things: 1) I’m not racist, 2) I will NOT TIP if I’m forced and 3) I’ll never be back to the restaurant.
This formula will result in everyone, not just blacks, avoiding tipping.
Liberals are math-impaired.
ooooooooo', the sticky, filthy lies some people tell.!
“..Liberals are math-impaired....”
True.
However, it’s much worse. They’re mentally impaired.
They’re a legend in their own minds.
It’s a chronic, no-cure mental disease.
I bet a certain number of their customers will feel all good inside and do a little moral preening as they pay the honkey surcharge. Just don’t know how many will feel that way.
I won’t be eating there anyway, but it takes a lot of nerve to do something like that & expect to stay in business. Why would anyone line in Minneapolis? Beats me....I wouldn’t live there if they paid all the customers the 15%.
Whitey must now pay Blacks’ tips....
WHAT WHITE PRIVILEGE?????!!!!!
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