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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These DCUM threads on tipping are always some of the most depressing.  So many cheap bast*rds.[/quote]

Why are the restaurant owners not to blame for being cheap?  If you are hiring people at a server wage of $2.13 per hour, you need to be giving those people the opportunity to be practicing the job that they were hired for, which generally received 15-20% in tips.  If you are hiring people to sling out takeout orders, pay them a wage appropriate for that (which is not $2.13 an hour). If they want to add a "packaging fee" to my order, fine.  But putting together a takeout order is not the same as providing table service.[/quote]

+1.  It's not my job to figure out how much to pay a restaurant worker per hour, that's on the business owner.  Bake it into the price of the food and let me decide if I want to eat there or not, but don't make your employees rely on the altruism of strangers to pay a reasonable hourly wage for a no-skill task.  [/quote]

Also, if the workers aren’t getting paid well they can always quit and[b] find a new job.[/b] I’d much rather just pay more for the food than have it somehow be my responsibility to pay for the workers.[/quote]

And the reason why restaurants are having such a hard time hiring now is because some (not all) restaurant owners have no idea how to effectively run a business and don't care about their employees because there is so much turnover in the restaurant industry anyway. Perhaps there wouldn't be if employers made an effort to increase job satisfaction but this has been an issue in the industry forever.   [/quote]

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