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[4X4]

Originally Posted by GGG

Dirty secret???

More like not far enough. The server is the least important part of the experience in a restaurant and has the easiest job outside of host. That the back of the house makes significantly less than the front is probably the greatest crime in the food industry. People go to school to hone their craft to become cooks and get paid like crap relative to the front of the house after tips are considered.

There should be an option to directly tip the kitchen

Paging CliffFletcher and Altaguy... Someone else disagrees with the tipping status quo! Better jump on in here and call him cheap!

[taco.vidal]

Originally Posted by GGG

Dirty secret???

More like not far enough. The server is the least important part of the experience in a restaurant and has the easiest job outside of host. That the back of the house makes significantly less than the front is probably the greatest crime in the food industry. People go to school to hone their craft to become cooks and get paid like crap relative to the front of the house after tips are considered.

There should be an option to directly tip the kitchen

Low paying jobs pay low because staff are easy to find and replace.

Its not the customers fault that someone made a bad decision to go to school for a program that results in a low paying job. You could get any monkey to work the line in the kitchen especially in a chain. No doubt it takes talent to be a chef. But wages in the open market work themselves out. Supply and demand; so if youre upset the kitchen is getting paid low wages, dont call it a crime. Instead realize that its what the market deems a fair wage and consider retraining and finding another job or industry.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by taco.vidal

Low paying jobs pay low because staff are easy to find and replace.

Its not the customers fault that someone made a bad decision to go to school for a program that results in a low paying job. You could get any monkey to work the line in the kitchen especially in a chain. No doubt it takes talent to be a chef. But wages in the open market work themselves out. Supply and demand; so if youre upset the kitchen is getting paid low wages, dont call it a crime. Instead realize that its what the market deems a fair wage and consider retraining and finding another job or industry.

So we should all quit tipping all together than as servers are easily replaced as well? Tipping is a perversion of the open market in how it's currently administered.

Crime was obviously an exaggerated term but unless you are springs1 and believes the server controls the kitchen the outcome of a meal that the tip is supposed to be based on is well over 50% controlled by the kitchen. So going back to the article posted where the waitress was complaining about tipout the answer is to go to full tip pool which no server would ever support.

[AltaGuy]

Originally Posted by 4X4

Paging CliffFletcher and Altaguy... Someone else disagrees with the tipping status quo! Better jump on in here and call him cheap!

If you think I like tipping, I can’t help you.

[troutman]

Jay Z's bar tab Feb 19th:



https://www.straight.com/music/10352...ing-single-nyc

six guys - 40 bottles of champagne

[KTrain]

Dayhana? Where's the stupid name thread?

Do you think they got the 750ml bottles ($305.95 CAD) or the 1500ml bottles ($649.95 CAD)? The Rose is ($499.95 CAD)

http://www.lcbo.com/lcbo/product/arm...4#.Wo303hPwbUI

http://www.lcbo.com/lcbo/product/arm...0#.Wo31QRPwbUJ

[CaramonLS]

Is there any other country in the world that pays servers between $30-$40 an hour? I'd wager a guess that Canada probably has the highest income restaurant servers in the world.