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Originally Posted by Jason14h
The most ironic part is usually the people who hate tipping correlate to lower tippers (self proclaimed in the thread) , then ask for the staff to be paid a higher wage and just eliminating tipping .
Which will just see all menu prices raise 15-20% to cover the extra salaries , meaning the lower tippers actually pay more , and the good tippers will pay less and actually come out better financially, however with most likely worst service which will annoy them also, so both sides will end up annoyed. And/or the restaurants will claim prices are up to pay servers , and pocket more profit while sticking it to the employees.
Unless the proposal is the ensure all employees in service industries make less overall , which seems weird for one of the few industries unskilled (relatively) and younger workers can make good money
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I was thinking about this when the topic came up earlier and just now have time to address a thought I had - Would menu prices really need to increase 15-20% for a restaurant to pay their staff better?
Simple example - say a server has 4 tables, each with 2 people, with each person having an appy, a main and a drink and each table turns once an hour (to make it easy).
In that case, the restaurant doesn't need to raise their prices by 20% to pay the server a living wage. Adding 50 cents to each menu item would earn the server an additional $12 per hour. The difference between minimum wage ($15) and living wage ($22) in Calgary is $7/hr... The remaining $5 per hour can be pooled and distributed to the rest of the staff...
Let's be even more generous... Can't I just pay an extra 50 cents for my beer (~5%), dollar for my appy (~5%) and $2 for my entree (~5%) and call it a day? Those prices, applied to the above 4 table scenario, sees a server earning an additional $28/hr. Pool it and carve it up, and I don't see how servers and the rest of the staff could be well above living wage.
Edit - in the example above, each table pays an extra $7. Using the same numbers, each table's bill come in at $120... If we use a 20% tip instead, it means each table pays an extra $24 and the server with 4 tables, gets an extra $96/hr!
Super simple calculations - and I have zero industry experience - but am I that far off?