Posted on 01/02/2017 6:57:54 PM PST by artichokegrower
The next time you wander into Sammy’s Wood-Fired Pizza for a burrata and pesto pie, indulge in a shrimp-filled bucket at Rockin’ Baja Lobster, or decide to splurge on beef tenderloin at George’s at the Cove, don’t be surprised to see an added charge when your check arrives.
Girding for the second minimum wage hike in six months and the fourth in 2-½ years, many of San Diego’s full-service restaurants are introducing for the first time an average surcharge of 3 percent of the meal’s cost to help cover increased labor expenses that some operators say amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single year.
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AMEN!!
Great way to get around this, eat at home, better food ...
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Eating at home, I don’t have to worry that the cook may have spit on my food, plus I’m also allowed to pat the cooks butt if I want to.
(Behavior that would get me tossed out of most restaurants.)
oh I’m mad at them too but I think it’s dishonest to post prices for a meal then add a surcharge.
Sometimes people really appreciate a kind server who does a good job. I received a $30 tip on a $58 ticket on New Years from a very sweet, quiet couple. I was surprised and immediately thought that’s too much! It happens every so often. We have several regulars who tip at least 25% every time. It seems that good service and good food is rare these days.
That is unbelievable-I’m a server and the restaurant doesn’t have automatic gratuity on any sized party. And the amount of the tip, if any, is left entirely to the customer.
I would be embarrassed to work somewhere with that in place.
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Our favorite Fish and Chips place has been doing this for six months...your entree is at the listed entree price...and only if you look at your bill carefully do you see the upcharge that is NOT a tip. Most people just pay their bill and don’t even do the math. Sigh.
>>>How about for the property taxes?<<<
Funny you mention Property Taxes. In CA we have Proposition 13, which has kept Property Taxes affordable for both Business and Residential Properties.
Proposition 13 was passed as a Ballot Proposition, not by the Legislature. It has been the target of Liberal Politicians since the moment it passed.
Now that we have a Democrat Super Majority in both Houses in Sacramento, they will be going after the Proposition 13 Business Property Tax Break.
After they pull that off, the Residential Property Tax break will be on the table. They are salivating to get their hands on all that Money.
Why tip before they were making $15? The bank teller doesn't get tipped. The cashier at the department store doesn't get tipped. The used car salesman doesn't get tipped. The DMV person doesn't get tipped.
Homemade meals average $2.50. Tonight's was meatloaf, roasted potatoes and peach pie. Can't see wasting gas driving to a restaurant, wasting an hour or so, getting a huge bill and then the waiter expects a tip for merely doing the job he's already getting paid to do and later getting an upset stomach because the cook didn't bother washing his hands.
Nobody could have ever predicted this/ sarc
Some/most restaurants undoubtedly will just hide the higher minimum wage costs in higher menu prices. Those that opt to list it as a “surcharge” are the Conservatives. They want people to KNOW that the increase in prices is not their idea and this is their way of protesting it.
The surcharge is going directly to pay the higher minimum wage, so deducting it from the tip amount is appropriate.
I see it as the most honest way to let people know that it is not just going into profits, it is laws mandating higher minimum wages and/or benefits. It lets customers know that the servers are now making a higher wage and do not need to be tipped as heavily.
It may even be handy. Instead of calculating 15% of a bill, just multiply the “surcharge” amount by 4. That will give you a 12% tip and with the 3% surcharge the restaurant is supposedly giving the servers in higher wages, the server gets the same 15% total.
I am a big believer in tipping as an effective way of evaluating a server’s performance. Servers who do not perform cannot make a living and find a different line of work. Eliminating tipping means the only person a server needs to please is their supervisor, which is less efficient than the customers directly controlling the server’s income.
As it should. If servers are making a higher wage, they need less in tips. Expecting the same tips on top of the wage increase would just be greedy. And we all know how these OWS/SJW socialists hate greed, right ?
Yelp them out of existence.
Which directly benefits the restaurant owner/mgr. The clear proof of this are return customers asking for seat at a servers tables as well as the server refering to "my regular customers", establishing a direct relationship with customers. And return customers pay the nut.
Of course this doesn't apply to fast food joints.
I don't see how raising the "minimum wage" affects things in restaurants. But IF for some reason the federal government has indeed taken over the restaurant industry and can actually force owners to pay waitresses $15 an hour, then that is the very moment that tipping becomes an obsolete and outmoded practice, since its economic justification would have disappeared. (But you can still be free to give a free gift to whomever you wish.)
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