This is kinda off base, though it’s the general fad among beer nerds. I wouldn’t neccisarily run with numbers from home brew contexts either since those guys are operating with a lot less sanitation control.

Whiskey, and almost any distilled alcohol with nothing added. Has practically no sugar content. If you get real technical about it whiskey has a fraction of a miligram of sugar to it. But the same is true of vodka.

Any sweetness in a particular whiskey is coming from other compounds.

Well look at all the prominent exits and the very recent strike. It’s very clear what’s going on. And that titular Herb gets hired to impose this approach and this tone. It’s the business model.

The unifying theme is that the current management and ownership made their nut with clickbait and link farms in the early 00's. So they’re imposing the hottest engagement tactics of long failed Buzzfeed knock offs.

Seriously I don’t think I’ve seen slide shows used this heavily in a decade, I don’t think they even…

and not emptied out to be properly sanitized.

If you had any minimal awareness of how the job works you wouldn’t be boiling it down to pouring into cups and being social while dealing with drunk tourists.

You’re kinda splitting hairs there.

The locked contract concept is exactly what I’m saying is illegal. It’s explicitly illegal with alcohol, and it’s an anti-competitive practice with food and other items. Contracting like that isn’t common outside of service situations like who provides your laundry.

They’re also based on some truly shitty marketing, both a trashy edgelord social media approach that put people on watch and stepped into some transphobic shit more than once. And the kind of clueless, context free way they dumped that particular ad out without any context. Among some other warning signs like the…

I would like you do a bar shift and then tell me that. Even at it’s simplest the job is not dump alcohol in a glass in a specific order.

Now what do you do for a living so I can tell you it isn’t worth the money and not hard?

It’s just covering the cost of doing business in general. Liability insurance is expensive, liquor licenses are pricey in some areas but not for the most part these days.

But staffing and rent are the 2 major expenses in a restaurant. Overhead is fairly insane in the business. It’s a 200% markup that’s standard, 3x…

That 2.99 asparagus at the supermarket is also likely not “in season” asparagus from anywhere local. 90% chance it’s from Peru or Mexico.

Asparagus also isn’t quite in season due to a cold spring. From a big asparagus growing area. Shit just started to sprout. 

All of these “reasons” boil down to price. It’s grandma level commentary, complete with advocating for labor abusing, heat it up or fry it chains.

That sounds nice, but just the parade of pros and e-sports people who get themselves in shit over open misogyny, racism, and often in person harassments would say otherwise.

Ain’t nobody outraged, although it’s a term meant to signal outrage.

I’d prefer to refer to it as activism.

People don’t generally get sued for not “virtue signaling”. A term which is mostly a right wing shibboleth.

You seem to be mostly thinking of those “we have to charge this extra money cause OBAMA” log lines that popped up in response to the Affordable Care Act.

The vast, vast, vast majority of service charges you see…

It’s not that people can’t figure it out.

It’s that they won’t accept it. Particularly when they’re used to getting a similar item at a lower price, or most places down the block have the item listed at a lower price.

There’s a powerful psychological element to this one says $5 and that one says $10.

A restaurant is not there to provide you with a hang out spot.

Their business is to sell you wine.

Of course the corkage fee is there to make sure they make money off of you.

In this case it is an incentive to buy their wine. Not bring your own. They aren’t charging you for service, or opening the wine.

They’re…

Nah. It’s mostly because if they just raise the price of that plate $2 dollars. People will have a fucking melt down about it and their business will evaporate over night.