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Shortly before opening, Casa Bonita’s new owners Matt Stone and Trey Parker decided to eliminate tipping and instead pay workers a flat wage of $30 per hour.
Now I could be wrong, but getting a an hourly wage as a restaurant worker is FAR better than relying on tips. I feel like either workers in this situation are too obsessed with tips or there’s huge context missing.
I came in here upset to see anti-tipping discourse on my hexbear but then I saw they're making 30/hour and if they're not talking about cutting in BOH well... yeah not a good look. I wish I made that much.
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say it's friday night, you've got 4 tables per hour, each table runs a bill of about $100 and tips $20. That's $80/hr not including hourly wage. I know not every time on the clock is friday night, but i get the complaint.
this was back in july because they didn't have tipping AND weren't fully opened, making 30 an hour but just a couple days a week instead of the expected full week was pissing people off. not that tips would be the right solution
but i haven't heard anything since so i don't know how/if it's settled. hell i don't know if the place is fully open.
Lol if you're making $30 an hour in fucking Colorado, you're getting jack shit from me besides paying the bill.
If I had to guess, it's missing context or straight up false reporting.
I mean yeah? With the crazy high tipping percentages that are normalised in the USA (20% is a good tip? In South Africa the standard tip is 10%) when combined with how expensive restaurant food and drinks are, provided with the fact that tips are mostly cash so you can avoid paying tax (someone else in the comments has already mentioned photoshopping pay slips), good waiters and waitresses could easily make more than 30 an hour during peak hour shifts, and back themselves to make up the difference there vs earning a flat rate during both peak shifts and midweek slow shifts.
Tips work out to more than $30/hr huh. Wonder if they were split with back of house or not?
Edit: Also the solution to the question of individual people getting less hours is to just make it a salaried position that pays out a fixed amount per month, so that everyone on average ends up working the same amount of dinner rushes/slow shifts etc.
Tips split with BOH absolutely would not average out over $30/hour for FOH in my opinion but I am only familiar with my state's restaurant economy, not Colorado's. Everybody having the same (better than average in this case) wage just makes it all the more easier to collectively bargain for a better one. At the very least, the restaurant industry needs "experiments" like this. I do think it's a net positive for workers in the long game on the condition that this level of openness to change continues. Foundational changes like this set the precedent that you can make foundational changes like this.
Wonder if they were split with back of house
I think we all know the answer to this question.
Tipping is a bad system for workers no matter how you cut it and the data shows this. Largely tips are completely disconnected from the actual performance of the waiter, and the biggest factor is simply the race and gender of the waiter in question. I have worked in restaurants and I know how good getting a generous tip can feel, so I understand why workers might preceive it to be in their best interest, but the data on this is really clear. Tipping is a holdover of jim crow that allows owners to offload the cost of paying wages onto both the customer and employee entirely and it should be abolished as a system.
Edit: Also for people reflexively saying "the workers want it and therefor it is good and you are reactionary if you don't support them!" That's called fucking tailism. Just because s group of workers want a thing doesn't necessarily make it good its called the working CLASS for a reason, it's not about individual interests or even the interests of a sub group its about the interests of us all.
Are most restaurant workers reporting their tips as income? Maybe they're worried about making less due to taxes even though the pay check is more consistent rather than some busy days with lots of tips vs slow days with less tips
The problem with not reporting your tips on taxes means it doesn't show as part of your income. So if you want to rent a place that's easily affordable but you don't have proof of half your income you're gonna get denied. Of course if your hourly wage is low enough it can be worth not reporting tips for the same reason. Many aid programs only help those below a ridiculously low income. I've been on both sides of the equation.
Excellent point. I wonder how it would go if there was a study comparing tipped and non-tipped income, as declared to the tax department. “Numbers show you’re clearly earning more money without tips. What’s the problem?”