I would love to hear a story about a restaurant in USA that increased the prices of all their food by 25 or 30%, paid their staff a PROPER wage (at least equivalent to what they'd get on a good night with tips), and then put a huge sign out the front stating NO TIPS REQUIRED, plus a good social media marketing campaign. I bet they'd make a killing......

How about paying them a decent wage instead?

How can $3 an hour be a thing? I'm in Canada we our minimum of $15 an hour isn't enogh...

What is so effing hard about paying servers an actual wage.

This person is begging for tips because if the wait staff doesn't make enough to satisfy minimum wage it comes out of the owners pocket to make up the difference. They don't really care about the wait staff, they just don't want to have to make up any lack in pay

Some of us live off fixed incomes bc our nerves just decided to go, "Hey what if we simulated the severe burning pain FOREVER! For just like, no reason!". In short, it's rare I both can afford to go out to eat AND feel like doing so. I always tip, but can't tip quite as much as I used to, and honestly sometimes the tip has been the deciding factor in not having a rare, once every few f*****g months day out of my prison. I mean house. Maybe THEY should take better care of "their girls" so my physically and economically broke a*s doesn't have to? Rant over....

Pay them a fair wage. if you can afford to be open then you can afford them a wage that they can live on.

Restaurants in the USA are like vultures, picking the meat off their staff's bones. The tipping culture is dreadful. Although UK wages could do better (Waitress: hourly wage £5 - £10, Average - £7).

If I plan to tip 20%, I would rather have the food cost 30% more and the restaurant pay their employees $20/hour and not allow tipping... Hell, I'd pay 40% more for that. McDonald's pays $15/hour, so I know you can afford it without raising prices. But we need to get away from this s**t where it's my job to pay your employees for you in exchange for the privilege of buying your food!!!

I wish we could get rid of the tip concept and wait staff would just get good hourly pay.

How about you don't own a business if you can't pay your staff?

3…. Dollars…… per hour. Wtf. You must be kidding. Is this black adder??

3 whole dollars per hour for putting up with people's c**p!!! wow!!! It's worth noting that every time the minimum wage is suggested to be raised... it does not affect restaurant workers because restaurants get to avoid that....which needs to stop

That restaurant is around 25 miles from my house. It's in Chattanooga/Lookout Valley on Cummings Hwy.

Wait wtaf? What is the minimum wage if the US? Here (Canada) it's $15.25/h

There is no "maximum" wage, you twät. You are legally allowed to pay them more than minimum wage.

2.17 an hour is that really legal? I’m stunned

Why does the boss have the audacity not to pay them?

Or just pay them regular minimum wage and instead of you making 75% pure profit you'll settle for 70%???

American capitalism at its best. Pay your employees a decent f*cking wage.

This is disgusting!!!! How long ago was this? I didn't know any employer could pay such a measly sum. You should be ashamed of yourself! Asked customers to give them what you don't/won't pay them. I'm British, but I find the "tipping culture" wrong. I always tip, but that shouldn't be how someone makes a living wage. I really feel for servers in America, but I also know that some employers are great. HOW DARE YOU ASK YOUR CUSTOMERS TO HELP MAKE THEIR WAGES NORMAL!!!! People should understand that they (customers) cannot afford the tip just because they are eating out. I wish every girl and boy stand up and be counted! I'd love servers to say "I'M NOT COMING IN UNLESS YOU PAY A WAGE THAT HELPS ME TO LIVE!!!! If all of these wonderful servers stood to their employers, things might change. You are part of what makes the world go round, and all the rest of you that get paid shite wages! They couldn't do/run a business without you all.

Every state should give servers the mandatory minimum. This shouldn't be happening.

"Our girls" - so you're hiring children?

US companies are do funny... They cry and complain about "quite quitting" and being short staffed, but the truth is: most US jobs are simple underpaid sh:tty jobs in toxic environments with crappy management. My recommendation: leave these sh:tty jobs, level up. Companies need workers and they need to offer better conditions...

WHAT KINDA PAY IS THAT

Yes... degrade them even more by calling them "girls" 🙄

Tipping culture issues aside, this sign is 100 percent correct

Oh WE’RE stingy

WTF

1st, that's an awesome sign. Respect. 2nd, there's a reason 1 in every 2 restaurants fail, and it's cost. Food cost, labor cost, alcohol cost, linen cost, electric bill, gas bill, water bill, maintenance bills (because for some reason, when many of you go to a restaurant you lose your civility, especially in the bathrooms 🙄), and replacement costs. What? You think free replacements just magically come for the wine glass you broke or the salad plate your kid dropped? It ALL costs a LOT of money. But, in order to keep people coming in, they have to keep the menu at competitive prices so YOU will still go there to eat. Restaurant owners will tell you they don't make hardly any money the first few years, if they can stay open that long, because every penny goes back into the restaurant. I guaran-damn-tee you that people who make themselves feel better about not tipping by saying, "pay them a livable wage", would be the FIRST people that would never come back to eat if the menu prices reflected the HUGE rise in labor costs. In fact, you'd be the first to raise hell over the new prices. You guys don't understand how the restaurant business works, you don't understand how 'tipping out' works; you don't understand any of it. So please, please stop making yourselves feel justified by not tipping. At the very least tell your server you're not going to tip. They'll still make sure you get your food, have drinks, etc, but they won't waste time they don't have to and can use that time for their other tables who WILL tip them. Please at least do that.

That is the lowest pay-per-hour I have ever seen! It's not even legal here in Nova Scotia. The minimum wage is $14.50!

I think they were dragged on tiktok last year.

Business owners paying s****y wages be downvoting out here lol.

I'd be interested in knowing how high a percentage of the tips employer himself rakes out

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Never understood the “TIP” system. I understand it stands for To Insure Promptness. It that’s true, shouldn’t tips be given BEFORE you even place your order ?