Comment on Restaurant Bill

• papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I actually interpreted that is tipping is now optional because the service charge goes to the staff

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I agree, the tip at that point is entirely optional whereas without the service charge it would be expected. This seems no different than a “18% gratuity will be added to parties of 8 or more.”

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  • jimbo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the service charge goes to the staff

    Does it? Tips are legally protected and must go to staff, but I don’t think the same applies to “service charges”.

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    • nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It says on the receipt that they use the service charge to post a higher wage so if that is true then it does (indirectly) go to the staff. Like you say though - there’s no guarantee that it all goes to the staff.

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    • papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s how I interpreted the contents of the receipt, that’s all I can tell you.

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    • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This would reduce tipping a lot, so if the staff weren’t being paid well to begin with I don’t see how they’d continue working there.

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• Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At the very least they’re calculating the tip from the pretax/pregratuity price. Most places seem to calculate the suggested tips from the after tax total. So they’re not complete scumbags. Only mostly scumbags.

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