Comment on Restaurant group in Massachusetts is trying to reject a public vote on paying tipped workers

• ghen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You mean like every other company on the face of the planet? Seems to work out just fine.

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  • Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s a false comparison, and you know it.

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    • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not the person you replied to, but I do think it’s a fair comparison. Take retail for example there is nothing in a restaurant environment that retail isn’t having to do at store level, because it’s still buying products with the intent to supply it to the customer base. You still have to deal with the same mechanics still have to deal with waste you still have to deal with pricing for the consumer you still have to deal with your wages, so my question is how is the restaurant industry not the same.

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• kboy101222@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t know what else to say but boohoo

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  • Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Continue advocating for the owner class then i guess.

    Staff make more money on a tipped system than not.

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    • exanime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And do you think that extra money comes from the owners?

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      • Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The extra money comes from the customer no matter the system.

        But now wages will stay down while ownership makes more.

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• Nommer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Guess you’ll just have to live with paying fair wages to your employees. Get fucked.

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  • Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol, im not an owner dingus.

    Ive worked basically every position from busser and expo all the way to exec chef and gm and am currently a bartender. I can so with first hand knowledge that wages go down when switched from a tipped system to a non tipped system.

    I guess first hand knowledge of the industry counts for nothing when a bunch of tech bros on lemmy know more than me.

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    • rekorse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So go ahead and explain exactly where thr money is lost. Does the restaurant make less money now? Is an owner incapable of paying their employees the equivalent of what they made with tips?

      You said you know all of this so intimately, so lay it out for us idiots.

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      • Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ok, I’ll lay out for all of you idiots.

        In our current system, customers almost directly pay wages for servers and chefs, and it stays tied to menu prices. Thus, wages go up when prices go up.

        In this suggested system, you trust the ownership class to raise wages for some reason because that works fantastically in the United States.

        Im not sure why youre suggesting that, because the capitalist class will always, always, always bleed whatever they can dry. You know that, i know that, the railworkers in the us know that.

        Like come on, use your tiny tiny brain that apparently cant multiple 50 times .2 and think about this fir a second. This will and has absolutely lead to wage suppression because they will absolutely not raise qages once they are set.

        Fuck.

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