LetMeEatCake

@LetMeEatCake@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  … I didn’t say they can’t do so. I said they’re allowed not to. Since it’s allowed, that’s what they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they’re allowed not to do so. The answer is shitty yet simple.

  Someone not tipping won’t change that either; all that will do is stiff a worker. This needs to be fixed by changing labor laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Service charge I would presume is primarily paid out to the non-wait staff at the restaurant. The kitchen in particular.
  Tips go to the wait staff, and they will pay some of that out to other staff (e.g. front staff) depending on how the restaurant works.

  They’re largely separate. The service charge is there so they can increase prices by a tightly controlled amount without needing to fuck up the carefully targeted price points ($8 or $7.99 is a lot better than $9.44). Which is shitty, to be clear: it’s a hidden way to increase prices while still advertising the same price. But it’s not something that replaces or complements the tip, it’s just a shitty price-adjustment.

  A waiter or waitress is still going to be dependent on the actual tip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Expanse: A Telltale Series Redband Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone that has read the books but not watched the show…

  For books 7-9, I think of them as an epilogue trilogy. The time jump, the overall ending at the end of book 9, the state of the characters… Basically all of it fills the same purpose that a traditional epilogue fills. It just tells an entire story in the process of doing so and needs 1200-1500 pages.