Look up Mo Karnage on FB, they just were talking about some classes they are teaching on this very topic.

I’m sorry but that’s not my problem.

Restaurant industry needs to start fighting for living wages and stop shooting itself in the foot pushing for tipping. This is exactly a way restaurants take advantage of them by making them work while not being tipped (prepping take out food).

Again, not my problem. I’m ordering take out for a reason. Just like I order subway and chipotle - no tipping is even asked for.

Someone’s livelihood should not be dependent on the generosity of strangers, especially when the strangers are forced to tip in some type of surprise billing scheme.

> that one was kind of weird anyway, it didnt have nearly enough flat-bottom so it was kinda awkward to ride. by the time youre coming down from one side you were going straight back up the other with no time to think in the middle.

It's been so long that I had forgotten about how awkward it was. When I was in high school I went down the ramp in a wheelchair. It was ill-advised and all I can say in my defense is Jackass was wildly popular at the time.

Really? The straight bourbon, not the apple one right? Strange. I've only ever had good experiences.

The issue is here at shyndigz there are no waiting staff anymore so just counter people making a standard hourly wage.

People saying this is illegal, but is it if they are paying their defined wages?

The Continental also adds a tip for take-out, but I think with take-out, a lot of times a server (who does not make minimum wage) is packing and ringing up the take-out, so they are spending time on your order when they would normally make a tip. At Shindigz, it's literally someone putting cake in a box. I hope they are not paid server's wages, because they are not servers. I guessed (wrongly?) that they are paid above minimum wage.

Any building at vcu

If that’s the policy going in, then how is it their fault if they are transparent?

Current manager who isn’t supposed to be getting tips. I have receipts and pay stubs from working here that I am happy to share

If you can find a Chick Fil A, they are almost always good.

Yes

Let me know where you end up going! I quad skate too, need some friends and a place to skate 😬

Y’all please stop going here. Former employee who commented below but they no longer are even a bakery. The restaurant shut down over covid and they realized they didn’t need it for profit by forcing employees to continue to work underpaid over covid in the market and continue to steal and profit. They own a fucking store now, three entire buildings and want to continue expanding down the block for a hotel. In the entire time I worked there I never met the owners or was acknowledged for the employment position I held in the market. The employees suffer there so bad that is NOT A SMALL BUSINESS.

there are way worse things than just messing with wages.

Former employee for about two months, they not only pocket tips they LIE about it and you have to catch them and confront them after, to which they have no excuse. I quit on the spot because I made the woman who lied to me about it pull up my paycheck and I asked her why it was short (they also consistently paid their female employees less, on my third day of TRAINING I closed by myself and TRAINED A NEWER EMPLOYEE who was a male being paid a dollar more per hour)

Could you elaborate? I love that place but I don’t want to support a place that takes employee tips.

I think it could be helpful if you started taking and collecting notes, either electronically or by hand (whichever is most efficient for you), and starting your own little master list of stuff you can easily refer to as needed. If you like watching videos, I’d suggest either having 2 windows open for note taking alongside viewing (you could even screenshot/snip frames for visuals that you want to add to your notes as well), or having a notebook handy to jot down stuff as you watch. This way you can have whatever info you need more quickly accessible when you actually need to refer to it.

Current employee! It’s not true.

that one was kind of weird anyway, it didnt have nearly enough flat-bottom so it was kinda awkward to ride. by the time youre coming down from one side you were going straight back up the other with no time to think in the middle.

this ones a little out of the way, but Colonial Heights skatepark has a pretty new miniramp. they used to have an 8ft halfpipe but it got really beat up and worn out over the years so they recently took it down and replaced it with a keen ramps mini. its only about 3-4ft high but its pretty fresh

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Yeeeaaahhh no. Current employee here, and that’s just not true at all.

> once i had to walk through the hot kitchen with active food cooking to go pee

Haha I have never taken it that far but that is kinda funny.

>much easier to find here than europe

lol not my experience at all and to go even farther private businesses in europe are way more likely to allow non-paying customers to use the restroom for a small fee. usually like 50cent or a euro.

in the states most businesses besides big box stores don't offer public restrooms.

the best tip I can give anyone besides libraries and museums is hotel lobbies. Especially in the city.

Refinishing and repairing used furniture is a good way to learn.