The way to vote with your wallet on this is to not go to the restaurant, not to still go and then be an asshole to the underpaid staff. Not leaving a tip doesn’t hurt the exploitative restaurateur or the system you “disagree with” but are still willfully participating in as far as it suits you. Also, fuck the Post.
I’m fine with this idea. But just so I understand, doesn’t not going to the restaurant also hurt the staff? Is the idea to hurt the owner and the staff at the same time?
I ask because during COVID restaurant staff were definitely calling for people to go to restaurants more to “keep them alive.” At least they were in my area.
You can’t expect people who aren’t used to tipping and are used to correct prices in the menu to start paying 20%-50% extra out of nowhere. The disturbing situation of the US is not their fault.
The way to vote with your wallet on this is to not go to the restaurant, not to still go and then be an asshole to the underpaid staff.
To be fair, a lot of this probably isn’t even intentional. Tipping just isn’t nearly as much of a thing in Europe and people just forget.
And also these people being tourists are usually not people with access to a kitchen to cook their own shit in, so unless you wanna cook instant noodles in your hotel room kettle you’re kind of bound to places that serve you food.
You can blame the europeans here for not knowing or even intentionally not conforming, but tipping being a heavily debated difference between US and EU catering culture is really old news and all these pub owners also could’ve just factored the tip into the price they already inflated for this event anyway.
You can’t blame people for thinking their 15 dollar beer includes the service.
So it still just circles back around to stingy employers if you ask me.
A question here: If “voting with your wallet” does not influence the restaurant… How can we do this??
In a system that is “used to this situation” why should something change, if everybody behaves the same. That’s the first time America sees an outside perspective and the solution you propose is still: “let’s keep it this way, otherwise we ‘hurt’ people”. The people don’t see that they are exploited… Maybe that’s the “straw” they need?
The way to vote with your wallet on this is to not go to the restaurant, not to still go and then be an asshole to the underpaid staff. Not leaving a tip doesn’t hurt the exploitative restaurateur or the system you “disagree with” but are still willfully participating in as far as it suits you. Also, fuck the Post.
I’m fine with this idea. But just so I understand, doesn’t not going to the restaurant also hurt the staff? Is the idea to hurt the owner and the staff at the same time?
I ask because during COVID restaurant staff were definitely calling for people to go to restaurants more to “keep them alive.” At least they were in my area.
Not going to the restaurant doesn’t hurt the staff any more than going and not tipping.
You can’t expect people who aren’t used to tipping and are used to correct prices in the menu to start paying 20%-50% extra out of nowhere. The disturbing situation of the US is not their fault.
To be fair, a lot of this probably isn’t even intentional. Tipping just isn’t nearly as much of a thing in Europe and people just forget. And also these people being tourists are usually not people with access to a kitchen to cook their own shit in, so unless you wanna cook instant noodles in your hotel room kettle you’re kind of bound to places that serve you food.
You can blame the europeans here for not knowing or even intentionally not conforming, but tipping being a heavily debated difference between US and EU catering culture is really old news and all these pub owners also could’ve just factored the tip into the price they already inflated for this event anyway. You can’t blame people for thinking their 15 dollar beer includes the service.
So it still just circles back around to stingy employers if you ask me.
A question here: If “voting with your wallet” does not influence the restaurant… How can we do this??
In a system that is “used to this situation” why should something change, if everybody behaves the same. That’s the first time America sees an outside perspective and the solution you propose is still: “let’s keep it this way, otherwise we ‘hurt’ people”. The people don’t see that they are exploited… Maybe that’s the “straw” they need?