It has nothing to do with being rich. He is being slammed for implied entitlement/wanting more than his share, hurting others in the process. He encroaches on the welfare of the people who provide his profit.

The other possibility, of course, if they feel that demand is too inelastic to raise menu prices, is to allow profits to decline slightly. The owner is a billionaire. He can afford it.

It also seems to imply that he was paying people the absolute minimum he could, if it’s actually driving his labor up.

But tipped employees also have to share with the bussers, right? They also have to tip the bartender and anyone else that helped them in service. And how many days of paid vacation do they get per year. How much medical care coverage is offered with the job? What holidays and personal days do they get and is there…

Well said.

And why would an owner whine publicly on the receipt before the guest has a chance to tip his own employee better? Just shut the fuck up and be grateful no one notices happy hour prices going up 15 cents across the board to cover that rising tide, lifting all them boats. Stupid jerk.

Hey, it’s a proven scientific anecdote that if you give a poor working person more money they won’t spend it, they will just horde it or use it to invest in bitcoin. That’s the problem with poor people. They save all their money instead of giving it to rich people.

Rich and greedy. Important difference.

i know, right? Compared to the other costs of running a restaurant, the minimum you’re legally allowed to pay people to work for you is incredibly consistent.

That was the issue raised-just quietly raise the prices but to pull this nonsense is bullshit.

It’s an Oceanaire. The tipped employees already make $25 an hour, if not more. This is a restaurant that has a single person check average of over 80 bucks, and the bar staff can take home $300 on a Monday night. They’re not poor. Hell, I once pulled over $2000 in a week— after taxes.—(BOH staff are a different…

The Oceanaire is hideously overpriced to begin with, so I find it rich that anyone would complain about a 3% surcharge to their $35 half dozen littlenecks in the first place.

Does he also add “surcharges” whenever the price of fish changes? Labor isn’t some unfair expense, it’s an expected cost of doing business.

I have admittedly not ever heard of this chain, but yep, this would be enough to make me boycott them. If prices need to be raised, raise them but don’t give me this passive aggressive little screed to try and bias me against minimum wage employees and don’t hide the hike in a surcharge that I’m not informed about…

I can’t believe people are this fucking stupid. Raising minimum wage will make everyone more money. If people have extra money, they will spend it on stuff. All that money spent on stuff gets transferred back to the rich assholes that begrudgingly provide those wages to their employees.

Well of course it will be great in 2118. The Jetsons are white.

I dunno! Maybe he’s been trying to think of the good things? I mean, it really seems like he had a lot of creative freedom—even, if other work conditions were allegedly less than ideal...

there’s a part of me that deeply needs to know whether or not the death of stalin returns to the story in any way, but i don’t think this game is worth anyone’s time really.

So is this game the type of games that you really shouldn’t play because it’s really bad? Or is it so extraordinary bad that you have to play it, like Superman 64?

So it’s the Netflix of classic games?