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Originally posted by arsenal@Feb 8 2005, 01:14 PM
Well if resturant owners paid thier servers the wage they would make with tips (regardless of if they do a good job or not), you would see an increase in the base price of going out to eat.
Instead of $5.00 / beer, you would probably pay $7.00 - $8.00.
Instead of $10.00 for a steak, you would probably pay $15 - $20.
Would you rather have the choice not to tip the server, but pay less for food. Or pay outlandish prices? You can't have it both ways. If the salaries go up, the price of your meal goes up. There is no way you are paying $7.95 for a clubhouse, if the server is getting paid $15/hour.
And if you are server, there is no way you work in the resturant business if you aren't making any tips. There really is no incentive otherwise.
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Yes. I would prefer to have to pay what everyone else is paying in the restaurant. It's the way the rest of the world works. If I have to pay an additional 10 bucks, so be it. At least there's no pressure to figure out how much I have to tip someone.
So servers have no incentive to work other than tips?? Since when? If they do a sh*tty job they get fired. If they do well they get bonuses, incentives, yadda yadda yadda, just like the rest of the world. What makes a server so special?
If there is a demand for servers, the positions will be filled. We don't live in a country where people have no choice in where they work. If restaurants can't get servers because they don't pay enough, or don't have enough incentives, I have a feeling that the industry will change. I have a hard time believing that we will suddenly have to serve ourselves when we go out to eat.