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Really, the stingy fucking owner passing on their virtue signalling bullshit back onto the customers. Essentially with sales tax + this fee, your total post bill tax is 20% .... Owner could have just wrapped into the cost, but no, fuck the wait staff, we can add it in as a tertiary cost instead because we despise our customers so much

Really, the stingy fucking owner passing on their virtue signalling bullshit back onto the customers. Essentially with sales tax + this fee, your total post bill tax is 20% .... Owner could have just wrapped into the cost, but no, fuck the wait staff, we can add it in as a tertiary cost instead because we despise our customers so much

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Not $2/hour, it's half the states minimum wage. I work part time in the summers as a server to go towards our debt, just one the weekends when I'm not working my other job.

I get $5.50/hour plus tips. Any credit cards tips are automatically reported and taxed heavily. We also have to tip out to the busboy, good runners, expo, bartenders, and hostesses, which is another 20% or so total.

So, say I make $500/10-hour shift, and only $50 of that is cash. $100 goes to divvied up to the rest of the staff. If we are training someone as a server, we'll throw another $50 or so their way so they have some cash before payday, more if they busted their asses.

So in the end, we walk out with a maximum $400, taxed on $450 bc they're tied to the credit cards under our sales. And that's for a good, fairly busy shift at a popular restuarant.

I'm just glad we're in an area that doesn't implement those bullshit fees.

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It works well where I live. The place is nothing but tourists who don't tip for shit. It the only restaurant that dose it here (small town ~5000 pop) and they are the busiest place in town. 19% on every bill.

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I work at a tourist trap, usually get about 30% in tips (I was offered to be a business partner Friday by a customer, too). I think there may be 5k people in the area now, pre-covid it was 3k or so, but people are flocking to the area from the cities. Again, we tip out to the staff, which I prefer vs the charge.

They're so desperate for staff at the place, they're giving a $900 sign-in bonus.