Originally posted by: jjyiz28
Originally posted by: fredtam
Originally posted by: Jumpem<BR>
Originally posted by: StinkyPinky<BR>It isn't up to the customers to pay the waiters wages. It should be the damn company that hired them.
<BR><BR>I agree completely. When I go out I pay the $40 for my food, and leave a $2 tip. Why should I give someone $6-7 just to carry a plate across a room?
<BR><BR><BR>People take waiter/ waitress jobs because they know there is money to be made in tips. Because of this you can end up with some really good people. If the resturaunt pays them instead of allowing tips one of two things will happen.<BR><BR>1. They raise the price of the food. You are still paying the tip but you are no longer able to do so based on the service that you receive.<BR><BR>2. They pay just above minimum wage and now the good people they could have had working for them go elswhere. Now you are being served by that rude, nonattentive slob that used to work at fast foods bottom tier.<BR><BR>I would rather go to a place knowing that there is a set cost for food and what I pay for service is based on my dining experience.
i don't believe in why we the consumer has to pay the restaurant's staffing.
i tip cuz if i dont im only hurting the waitress and not the restaurant itself. But there should be a government regulation to ban tipping and make the restaurant owners pay the waitresses their full wages. if the waitresses sux, they should be fired. simple economics. when i buy groceries, i dont tip the cashier cuz she's doing a fine job scanning my food. when i buy i car at a dealership, i don't tip the salesman selling me the car because he was really nice to me. why should waitressing be any different. if the waitress sux, the consumer will tell the owner, she will get fired, theyn someone else will be hired just like any other friggin job. instead of giving waitresses minimum or even less than min wage + tips, it should be setup as tiers based on how good they are like training tier ($9/hr), average tier ($11/hr), exceptional waitress tier($13/hr).
i do tech support over the phone making 12/hr. why don't my company make it so that we get paid minmum plus any tips we get over the phone??
i just dont understand how restaurants are setup like this..
mostlikely in response to you they will raise the price of your food, which i am all up for. the employees will get a FIXED wage, but it will be alot higher than min wage. crappy waitresses get fired, good waitresses are kept, how simple this sounds to me eh?