Here's the original story from 2015 saying that they would pay the waiters $14 an hour in the test program. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3358907/posts
Socialism fails every time it is tried.
That would be a cut in pay for our waitress.
Just our(me, the wife, daughter and grandbaby) table’s tip is around $18 when we go out - and that’s at Buffalo Wild Wings.
The last time I was a Joe’s, I didn’t leave any tip, but it wasn’t because of their policy.
People want to control how much or how little a tip they leave depending on the service. Tipping is an incentive structure for better service.
I love seafood and I love casual, so I went to their website looking for the closest restaurant. It’s about 165 miles from me, so I guess I won’t be checking one out for a very long time, if ever.
It is not wise for a restaurant to hurt it's sales staff.
They may have taken the Econ 101 class at a liberal university, but, they obviously didn’t pass the class.
I guess the union loving socialist bastards found out that by everyone regardless to the professionalism of their job and the desire to earn their income really matters when it comes to giving good service for a good tip.
I’ll bet the quality of service went through the floor when the socialist owners paid everyone the same regardless as to the level of service they provided. You work for tips, do good service and you will make far more than minimum wage...don’t and you won’t even come close to making minimum wage. It’s called professional competition and I don’t give a damn if it hurts someone’s pride and esteem...it used to be the AMERICAN way.
They show you pictures of these giant buckets overflowing with seafood
But when it gets to your plate it is not quite a normal sized pail, and then most of it is filled with packing material and the seafood is only in one layer on top.
We ordered some stuff, were still hungry, and ordered some more stuff... after $70 worth of food we left and went to McDonald's.
We went to a Joe’s Crab Shack once. They play certain songs and the waitstaff all stop what they are doing and do a little dance. Our waitress jumped up on our table wearing shoes, which had been all over the restaurant and probably into the ladies’ room once or twice, and did her little dance. When she was finished, she hopped down, took a quick swipe at the table with a rag, and disappeared. We stopped a waiter and asked him to give our table a decent wipe-down. He admitted to us that they put the music on when the kitchen is backed up to give them a chance to catch up.
I’m a farmer, so I’m no germophobe, but that little table action certainly put me off my feed.
We never went back again. I think that “no tipping” is not the only problem they have.
We went there once, but it was years before “no tipping” was a thing. I’m a big tipper unless service really stinks. If the total bill is small, a generous tip to the server doesn’t make it a big expense ... you spent $5.95 on lunch, what’s another $4? If the total bill is large, a generous tip to the server is just a fraction of the cost of a splurge.
I’m guessing a typical order is 50-75 bucks, so they definitely undercut the pay of waitresses/waiters if they run only 2 tables an hour.
Good, because I just bought a Willard tip calculator.
$14 an hour and NO tips. No wonder they walked.
Back in the mid-90’s our daughter worked at Outback while she was in college. She worked Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday afternoon, a total of 20 hours a week.
She said it was very, very unusual if she didn’t make $550 to $600 a weekend in just tips. So that’s $25 to $30 an hour. And that was in the 90’s.
$14 an hour???
I really like Joe’s, but the one near me closed a year ago.
Going to a restaurant where the gratuity is automatically added in is a guarantee of poor service.
One would think that tipping with someone else’s money would be a natural. The at the table classes titled ‘buying preprepared food / schooling for recipients of the you deserve it class’ evidently left out a section on tipping and now restaurant prices are skyrocketing. Talk to your waiter waitress friends. PS on the qt of course don’t want to profile #;^(
and they risk losing their "Earned" income credit, food stamps, college money etc...
The WORST place that I have ever had the bad luck of dining ........ garbage, nasty, service was horrible. I had better seafood from a long john silvers drive up that hadn’t changed their deep fryer oil in a month with a side of free rat meat than Joes Crab Crap....... They closed down in less than a year here. The only thing laundered in that chain is money through tax system due profit losses ..... my opinion / one time experience with joes crab crap shack.