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San Fran: Restaurant workers want 25% *Mandatory* tip

JEDI said:
http://blog.sfgate.com/djsaunders/2011/10/14/mandatory-25-percent-tip-not-a-san-francisco-treat/

San Fran is known for wacky ideas. Some of them good. This isnt one of them.
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Yet another person who doesn't even read what he links.

So I’m all set to write about what a bad idea this is when I hit a problem: The story has no source — no politician, official no author of an ordinance or policy requiring said tip — and the story says “standard,” not mandatory. It’s a cute piece about what people tip, should tip and want to tip, as well as what restaurant workers would like people to tip, but the 25-percent mandatory-tip angle is a nothing-burger.
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Baked said:
Greedy motherfuckers. I'll just stick to cooking food myself.
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I would tend to agree but I once knew a flight attendant who lived in a tiny apartment in SF who had to pull down 4 jobs just to make ends meet. I can understand why they might be asking for this (ridiculous) amount because it is so expensive to live there.

There is a simple way to voice your opinion about this issue .. either do or don't eat at SF restaurants.
 
DominionSeraph said:
Yet another person who doesn't even read what he links.
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That, and
"Update: Kim Wirshing of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 2 just returned my call. He was unaware of the issue and told me, “That’s not something we’re pushing right now.”"
 
Welcome to Nancy Pelosi's Steakhouse!

25% mandatory tip required!

We got the obamacare waivers, so you guys gotta pay my workers health ins. now.
 
It's insane how the government takes 35% of my salary and these restaurant works want 25% of what I pay to eat. That's crazy!
 
Doesn't seem legit but if it is, fuckkkkkk that. Never eating at a seat-in place in such a retarded city.
 
They aren't pushing it, but only because they sent up a trial balloon about it and the backlash was rough...
 
You also have realize you cannot be forced to pay a mandatory tip:

According to the "New York Times," a tip is not legally enforceable, even if the restaurant declares it mandatory. In 2004, a New York restaurant patron refused to pay a mandatory 18 percent gratuity on a bill and was arrested for theft of services. However, the judge found him not guilty, stating that the payment of a tip is not legally enforceable by a restaurant.
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They already started charging some health tax in SF. I just deduct that from the standard 18% I usually leave.
 
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