Don’t want ANY legal income to be undocumented, now do we..?
Sounds more and more like Europe all the time.
YUCK.
I think this is also because in big cities there is often one type of person that sees tipping almost nothing as a type of activism.
“Nearby, the Walrus and the Carpenter instituted a compulsory 20 percent service charge.”
They can KISS MY BEUTROS. If they want to charge 20% more, then build it into your price, like Ivar’s. No way I’m eating there.
But I do agree with the article...I go to Seattle a lot, and I’ve stopped tipping there. They’re paid enough just through the higher prices for a meal.
Do away with tipping and you do away with the incentive to excel. That’s when everyone just mails it in.
The best shifts (I’m sure) are the ones where everyone busts their asses and they end the night over beers splitting up hundreds of dollars.
Waiters could quit and become independent contractors, then they could make an arrangement with the restaurant to rent floor space to work for tips, pay $1. Restaurant owners now don’t have to pay them wages and can revoke their floor rental contracts if they’re not good waiters.
So it will be interesting what ‘great’ wait people make vs. the new wage. Not so much at their level as to what they have collectively shared down the line before?
As a restaurant owner, I completely identify with these owners in big cities that are having to adjust to the “progressive” answer to paying staff. Most Americans have never been to Europe where there is no tipping because the cost of service is included in the tab. Meals are very expensive and it doesn’t matter if the service sucks.
My restaurant is in a small town in the southwest where these draconian progressive measures are yet to take effect, but I rue the day they do. Not only will staff make less money, it will be twice as hard to get a fledgling restaurant off the ground. And far fewer entrepreneurs will try.
People in WA State can’t figure out squat. I am surprised that they have not changed the name of their state to someone less offensive for WA State.
I’m tired of the whole tipping culture here in this country. Everybody has their hand out for everything. Travel overseas and most likely,”The price is the price”.
I’m greatly surprised that Mother Government hasn’t gone after the honey pot of under-reported, ‘tips’ before now!
I mean, it’s a RARE day when She leaves money that COULD be confiscated from, ‘We The People,’ on the table!
*SPIT*
(I got no dog in this hunt; I’m, ‘Management’ so I’m abused in other VERY SPECIAL ways, LOL!)
AEI used a bad dataset to attack Seattle’s min. wage increase and that’s a big setback to our side. The reality is that these policies marginalize people in ways that you don’t instantly see and are diffuse. It takes good thinking to avoid these dumb policies, but good thinking has always been scarce.