“Well then by that logic, you admit that you have no life since you are returning.”

If you had a life you wouldn’t be doing this and you certainly wouldn’t return so long after the conversation died out to add nothing of value and no content whatsoever.

Another content free reply from you.

Here you are again replying late to get the last word, not addressing the topic, and using insult. It’s sad really. Especially here where you object to me pointing out how you take on the role of social enforcer and then go about socially enforcing. Sad sad sad.

“Tipping percentage will go down in time though.”
“Once wages are increased, the social pressure for mandatory and ever-increasing tipping will go away too.”

I thought we agreed that tipping wasn’t going away no matter what the base wage became within reason. And if the base wage increased enough that those doing the best under the tipping system made more well, then we might be looking at some extreme cost increase per meal. And hence it’s not the same price. The tip…

Industry wide doesn’t make it possible to raise prices. Part of my job is to fight inflation. To keep that price on the shelf the same numerically year after year even though the value of the monetary unit declines. It’s not just competition that demands this, but what people are willing to pay.

There’s no way in hell the tipping practice is going away. Why? Because the employees themselves won’t allow it to go away. Minimum wage laws are designed to push out the less productive. To make them economically non-viable for the benefit of higher wage generally more experienced / productive employees. The people…

The NFL decided to take fedgov’s money for military promotion. It still does last I looked, but that might have been before Trump took office. The NFL is just getting what it deserves for making a deal with fedgov. Just like the old tale that is morphed so many ways, what did they expect? It’s fedgov.

Besides the what happened to the two brothers, who wrote that obit? The two kids? The husband?

So let’s say it is a $1.70. That’s huge in the food business for most of the places that rely on volume. To pass on a $1.70 would hurt volumes and to not pass it on would cripple margins or even push them into the red. Margins are very thin after all the costs.

You can’t put diesel into a car for unleaded without knowing something is wrong because the pump nozzles are different sizes and the diesel nozzle is larger. Grabbing the wrong nozzle and pushing the wrong button would have resulted in a lot of spilled diesel fuel.

Here in Illinois government employees make more money in wages, have pensions on top of that. There are so many do-nothing six figure office jobs in government its ridiculous. There are a few out-in-the weather government jobs out there where we can debate the merits of harder work but other than that it’s a lot of…

And there will be fewer people eating out and only the best servers will retain their jobs.

You forget all the payroll costs that scale up with the wage paid. The so-called employer portion of payroll taxes, workers comp and similar things. While it probably won’t amount to $10 a meal it should push your estimate considerably higher.

You mean take some of the social guesswork and burden off people who aren’t well wired for it while at the same time getting rid of chance for others to signal their virtue and generosity? You must be kidding. That would be unamerican.

This will make the perfect subject for one of those ‘look what is for auction on copart’ articles or you tube videos in the near future.

They would. At the time ABS was becoming everywhere (but not mandated) I was daily driving my ‘73 Ford with 4 wheel manual drums. Morons would cut me off and brake as if I had modern brakes. Damn lucky none of them got hit.

People in the USA have been trading freedom and liberty for security for over a century now. They don’t seem to have a problem with it so long as they are properly conditioned that government is protecting them from something.

Their vision is the end of personal mobility.