Comment on ‘It’s absolutely criminal’: US tipping culture has reached the UK – and is causing chaos
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 1 week agoOn the contrary, not going to a restaurant requires far less energy than going and not tipping.
We don’t need to organize in any way. I’m not suggesting that we don’t go to a specific restaurant or all restaurants on a specific day. That would require organization. As would any form of “go but don’t tip” protest done morally and effectively.
Just don’t go, at your own pace, and anyone anywhere can also not go as they feel they can or want to participate. Let the business owners figure out what they need to do to get people back.
Force the one with the power to figure out and execute a plan.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah, for people who agree with your assessment, are vocal enough with what they’re doing (cause what restaurant is gonna guess that the increased traffic to their takeout is about tipping?), and with a substantial number of them in some focused place, that could absolutely work.
But you’re going to face immense burnout unless people prefer pickup, making this not super likely to ever happen. Especially cause the plan relies heavily on luck.
Or, you get a group of people together, focus efforts on specific restaurants, document what you find and share it with the wider world, and that’d probably do it a whole lot quicker and it’d also be a hell of a lot more likely, too. But hey, you get to decide how you want cut that cake. I’m just a bystander.
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well yeah, a coordinated effort would work way better and way faster.
I was responding to your direct criticism of ‘we’re too overloaded and can’t protest this right now’. I offered a simple protest to fit the bill. If ‘not eating at a restaurant’ is too much work as a protest, I think there is no chance of the population achieving anything anymore.
It really sounds like you don’t want to do anything at all to help fix the situation (except maybe stop tipping?) But hey, you get to decide your cake slice too.