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If I ever lose my job (I don’t have an education right now but hope to change that) and I still don’t have training you bet your ass the first thing I’m gonna do is try to go back to serving/bartending

Only reason I don’t go back honestly is insurance, and I started getting really bad pain in my feet from all the years of buying the cheapest Walmart work shoes catching up with me. Doubles started hurting pretty badly in my late 20s.

They think that their protest is actually doing something. “I refuse to tip for this!!!”

Okay, well if you are making an ethical/moral argument about why you shouldn’t be tipping, then you should ethically and morally be ordering food at places you’re sure pays their to go people fairly.

Otherwise, it’s not that you’re super passionate about the issue. I bet you won’t tell that to go person to their face you don’t believe in tipping them. It’s that you are mad at the system and you don’t want to tip but you want to have your unethical cake and eat it too.

(General you, not you as a person)

I agree with you in theory but in practice it is not the person who is bagging up the food who is choosing to be paid less than minimum wage. Some to go servers are paid less than minimum wage before the bump up. And yeah you can say “but they have to pay them minimum wage” but in reality your little protest isn’t hurting the business owner at all cause you’re still getting your food there. It’s just the person working to go who spent time on your order who may have gotten a little extra who is gonna wait for the dollar or two on their check that comes out to fifty bucks a week

I was going to suggest Home Depot workshops because I know they used to do them, but it appears as if those are all virtual now.

Looks like Lowe’s has limited in-person workshops but they also heavily use virtual workshops.

Yes pony pasture was my thought immediately.

opposed to where? they are legally required at public gathering spaces (basically food establishments or anywhere with a water fountain) and voluntarily offered by national retail. its an american stereotype, much easier to find here than europe or south america. here specifically theres construction all over town with portajons.

Hotels. Marriott and Omni.

Hotels. Sometimes I go in just to look at the design

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Libraries

Management cannot keep tips per the department of labor. Connect the state labor board

I hope Myrna takes Joe to the cleaners in this divorce! He is one SICK sociopath who doesn't know how to love anyone, except himself.

I’m surprised. I think the owners are good folks.. what do they do?

Sous Casa?!

Didn’t realize they stayed open that long. Chimborazo has been closed for like 20 years.

Somewhat true. Say I had a really gnarly week serving to the point I made $5/hr. Legally, my job has to pay me minimum wage. So they bump it up, tax it. On the flip side, say I made $50/hr the next week but most of it was credit card tips. Those tips would be in my next check(at most, not all restaurants) and those tips would be taxed. That helps the IRS keep track of money industry people make, that way someone can't say "oh look, I only made x amount this year, I deserve extra tax refunds."

It is highly encouraged in most restaurants because of that to also report your cash tips and not get the IRS up your booty

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Assuming that servers are “unskilled workers” is bullshit.

There is a local burrito delivery place that did this. Not sure if they still do. Super lame that businesses do this.

Yes, they legally cannot collect tips while being manager. If they are part time manager, part time bartender/whatever they can when clocked in as NOT manager

I don’t disagree with you, my original comment was just to point out that in the food service industry in the US sometimes the person who meets you with the swivel of the iPad and tip option isn’t just handing you the food and has had a hand in putting the order together in another way. Some front of house staff are paid hourly, some are paid based on tips, and some are paid based on a combo. How you tip is up to you. Not your job as the customer to figure it out, but it is important to know it’s not all the same setup everywhere.

>> Because that’s the industry standard? Servers make around $2 an hour so the expectation is that patrons tip. I wish that wasn’t the case and that business owners pay a reasonable wage, but that’s not what’s going on.

I mean this thread is talking about tips for carry out. In what world does someone earn a tip simply for putting food in bag? I mean why not tip the grocery store worker who bags your food? Why not tip the person at Macy’s who takes the tags off and puts your clothes in the bag? What about the person who looks up parts to your car at autozone? When should it stop? And for the record I usually tip $1 when I get takeout but I hate how it’s the norm now.

One of my favorite things about traveling abroad is the dining experience. I can sit at a table by myself enjoying a meal and coffee for two hours and nobody cares because tipping culture doesn’t exist everywhere else like here. It makes the experience bad by viewing your time at a table or party size as a $ sign, rather than a place to enjoy a nice meal peacefully.

NP. If you end up going, let us know how it is. Having grown up on those books when they first came out, I'd love to go. But alas, due to a prior commitment, I cannot.

And I’d bet the tips they stole from you that they know it’s illegal, too