Yes demand does change to price increases.

It’s not typical do-gooder math. You call it a 10% or so hit. However, if that’s an increase in costs industry wide, you’re going to see instead price increases of around 10%. That’s not stopping anyone from eating out (especially as many people have said, it’s not really a 10% increase if it lowers the tip amount -…

I’m happy to leave it at that.

Actually, I’m usually all for making sure there are national standards, but of anything minimum wages should be local. There’s so much variation in living costs.

I’m not saying eating out is “exorbitant” I was quoting the term you used.

That’s a $1.70 that customers already have to pay. If it hurts volumes, great. That previous volume relied on tricking customers into thinking they were getting a better deal than they did.

My limited response was because it is all that’s merited.

California already does does not have the no tipped minimum wage, which means all servers have to be paid $11/hour ($14/hr in some cities like SF) rather than the $3 - that’s a $8 difference and restaurants have survived. So yes, real life already proved you wrong that paying standard minimum wage does not cause…

His numbers were also way low for average customers per hour. I’d expect a server to get at least 3 tables of 2 per hour on average, probably more like 6 tables of 2-4. Even taking a low end of 3 tables of 2, you’re looking at 6 customers.

You’re paying an “exorbitant price” for the meal regardless of whether tip is considered an extra undisclosed fee, or if it’s labelled in the price.

You can’t elect legislators that will fix it, because it isn’t on any standard platform so there is no such candidate to elect.

So all generation Xers are millenials too?

It also makes it harder for guests to control finances and appropriately budget, if the total cost of everything is 30% higher (after tax + tip) than numbers displayed. The whole “menu item will cost more” isn’t an argument. If the same amount has to get paid out, it’s better for it to be transparent. Tipping and not…

Just want to note, millenials are mid 20s-40 year olds, not your daughter (who’s generation z). Millenials would indeed have alcohol on their bills, and probably be more likely to tip more given that the push for tipping awareness is more of a millenial thing on the internet, and the fact that the servers themselves…

Are you sure you’re thinking straight in the heat? The first study refers to high school students, so that’s Generation Z (Millenials are the mid-20s-40 age group), the second report is about lottery ticket buyers - but there’s a lot of research about how Millenials are actually NOT buying lottery tickets much…

Well I guess theoretically. Though I don’t tip less in CA, mainly because I recognize min wage is pretty shitty, even if CA has a far higher min wage than anywhere else ($11 statewide, $14 in some cities like SF).

In that respect, you would expect Buffet servers to receive minimum wage, since a Buffet server, where you serve your own food, fill your own drinks at the fountain etc. is a loott closer to a fast food worker than a server.

Don’t think it should be that controversial...

Just wondering for bidet users, do you flush before using a bidet (not contesting for environmental reasons, though you do have to add +1 flush water costs, but still probably better for the environment).

That’s because Uber is directly comparable to Cars in terms of function. Public transportation is not.