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Originally Posted by Bill14564
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Shortened version: I’m truly sorry you can’t understand simple, basic cash flow. No matter how you wish to frame it, the customer pays 100% of the employees’ wages.
Don’t like tips? Demand a 20% price increase to cover actual employee costs.
Personally, I like to have some say over the compensation of those who serve me - treat me well and get a good tip, treat me poorly and get what you get.
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Good day to you.
I get what you are saying. In any business, when the customer pays for a product or service, the customer pays 100% of the cost to provide the product or service, plus provide a profit for the company.
My position is that tipping 15 or 20 percent only give you an unreal sense of control. It's unnecessary and/or fake, and can even foster resentment on the part of the employee forced to faun over customers to get what the employer holds back as inducement to be civil to the customers. If the customer tips, the employer adds that "withheld amount to their profit. Keeps the corporate thumbscrew in place.
Don't have to demand a 20% increase to cover the actual cost of labor because it is already built into the business model. Any difference you think you receive in service is only imagined. Any employee that abused a customer would be removed, tipped or not.
Just my opinion.