Yes. If the minimum wage went up to something livable, do you think the restaurant owners are going to eat the cost or pass it along to you? Them putting an 18% surcharge, assuming that that’s an auto-gratuity that goes to the server, is the exact same as if you were begrudgingly tipping 18%. That being said, that should be announced somewhere as an official company policy. If you want a servant to make and bring you food, you have to pay for that luxury. You’ve just been paying below actual market price for that luxury since you’ve been born.
Read the check, it’s not an auto-gratuity. The gratuity is still expected. This is a service charge. A service charge that is likely not listed on the menu. It’s bullshit. Raise the price of the food and don’t hide costs that you are charging the customer.
Prices for food in a restaurant is not that hard to calculate: you figure the cost of one plate of food, multiply it by four and that is price to be charged before taxation.
One part is for the pantry. One part is for the kitchen staff. One part is for the room staff. One part is for the house.
Not hard to figure.
Drinks and beverages are basically all profit, unless you want to drink water with a refined meal (the healthiest/best option but most people won’t), so you will pay for a soft drink twice or triple what it costs you at the store and lets not start talking about wines, beers or, even worse, spirits.
Here on the UK you occasionally come across someone with a ‘yank tank’. Massive impractical things… they take up more than one parking space and still poke out into the road. How in hell they get in and out of car parks is beyond me.
Luckily it’s rare probably because of the sheer impracticality of them. I can barely get down my street with my large buy not stupid car… one of those they’d have to get out and walk…
mildlyinfuriating
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