When all your competitors are? Go make a business and try that strategy.
>50% off a meal is a great offer!
So great the company who set it up went right out of business despite an insane amount of funding.
>I think the biggest problem with these deals (for the wait staff at a restaurant) is that people think they should tip based off the discounted meal, instead of the full price.
I don't think people should tip at all. Tipping is just a sneaky way of having the customers pay the labor costs directly. It's ridiculous to say a steak costs $7 when I'm paying the the server as well.
My points about not using the deals and them being great offers was from the point of view of a customer.
"I don't think people should tip at all. Tipping is just a sneaky way of having the customers pay the labor costs directly. It's ridiculous to say a steak costs $7 when I'm paying the the server as well."
Not wanting to tip and actually not tipping are two different things.
I agree with you that the whole tipping concept can get ridiculous but like it or not, that's the system we have.
To not tip in all cases, in a system that has tipping as a critical part of the labor costs, is flat out wrong. You know the system is based on tipping and you're punishing the wrong person for your distaste for it.
If you don't want to tip, don't participate in the entire system. Don't go to any restaurants or other place of business that advocates tipping and makes it a critical part of the staffs salary.
Again, it's absolutely wrong to not participate in only one aspect of the system you dislike when the people who get hurt are the ones with little power to change things.
Good luck changing that in the US. If you got waiters subject to the normal minimum wage then there might be potential. Hopefully you don't take your dislike of a system out on someone forced to work within it.
NOTE: I don't live in the US anymore so I'm not affected by tipping. When I am there I do tend to tip but it pisses me off. Not because of the cost but rather the exploitation of me and the worker.
When all your competitors are? Go make a business and try that strategy.
>50% off a meal is a great offer!
So great the company who set it up went right out of business despite an insane amount of funding.
>I think the biggest problem with these deals (for the wait staff at a restaurant) is that people think they should tip based off the discounted meal, instead of the full price.
I don't think people should tip at all. Tipping is just a sneaky way of having the customers pay the labor costs directly. It's ridiculous to say a steak costs $7 when I'm paying the the server as well.