Comment on Restaurant group in Massachusetts is trying to reject a public vote on paying tipped workers
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months agoRestaurant owners will increase prices with inflation because it means more profits. Restaurant owners are also notorious for stealing tips and wage theft.
And restaurants that ended tipping (some have) have happier wait staff and management.
Do you own a restaurant?
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Do you have a source on that statement?
I do not own a restaurant but am a worker, bartender specifically.
Every restaurant that i know of or have worked in that switches to a non-tipped wage leads to suppressed/lower wages, and that’s from someone who has intimate access to the books.
Pay is definitely more consistent but not as high on average by design.
rekorse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well you can do a shitty version of anything. There are gains to be had switching to a non-tipped pay structure, but its up to the owner to distribute it fairly. Sounds like in your examples the owner collected the extra money themselves.
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Its nuts to me how many people in this thread support and trust the ownership class.