Stage Door?
$15 for lunch is NYC is $7 for lunch anywhere else. This isnāt about eating at a fancy restaurant, itās about ordering food from a vendor. I get lunch from food trucks all the time, tipping works the same way it does at any other to-go counter: thereās a jar, tip for service.
This whole debacle is dumb and unworthy of scrutiny.
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Not I. Not that tipping irritates me, but I can certainly assure you I would be much more vocal to the waitstaff if tipping was always included. Where as now I leave a tip that is a reflection of the level of service that was provided for me. Hell a lot of places Iād love to be able to leave a tip for the cooks and/or the waitstaff. Iāve had excellent food and horrible service many of times.
Iām laughing at your joke but thatās because Iām a shallow spirit of malevolence and laugh at the misery and miserableness of bad jokes.
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Perhaps the food truck vendor isnāt rolling in customers? Perhaps this place is a fairly frequent customer? Besides, I was raised with a certain level of discretionā¦this is a story best told over a few drinks with your friends, not the entire world while pointing at that āevilā company.
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Yeah! Ignore the fact that you are barely making ends meet, take the time out of your two or three below minimum wage jobs and get an edumacation, dummy!
And whilst youāre at it; be more smart and have had more education opportunities, donāt have such a large family to support and have been born to more wealthy, stable parents.
SRSLY now, thereās waving and thereās drowning and you lot look like a bunch of waving wanna-be drowners down there in the maelstrom.
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Perhaps in NYC, but then again the rest of the US isnāt NYC (or the western coast of California.) $13/hr for a short order cook probably wouldnāt be bad in NCā¦
Of course you enter that cyclical argument of NYC being so expensive, yet all the wall street types making so much money, and it goes round and round.
But this isnāt about anywhere else. I can get a $7 lunch delivered to my door with a lot less effort than waiting on a truck. I can get a $3 lunch from another food cart. And in any of these cases, thereās a tip for the poor bastard standing on their feet during the hottest part of the day.
It is indeed unworthy of scrutiny because the tip is to be assumed.
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coughBenAsh*cough
I KNEW BETTER.
If thereās a tip jar, itās for putting tips into.
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It guarantees getting exactly what you paid for? Oh, the horror?
Or is the opposite of freebies getting less than you actually paid for?
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Awesome! Youāre a terrible human being and misogynist as well.
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Are you alleging that the author of that post is lying about their actual sympathies and is participating in this thread solely to undermine support for working people?
If you are, then so be it, but if youāre not, then please donāt call people concern trolls. Disagreement is not trolling.
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Free pickles!
My parents love that place. I keep telling them thereās less expensive and better, but they wonāt have any of my crazytalk.
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My sister thinks Iām crazy but I could swear we all ate there in the 90s as kids with our folks and I know for CERTAIN my mom would never have taken us to that place if it was priced then the way it is now. Something has changed.
You must be a proponent of Free Market principles.
Protip: Businesses only pay higher wages/salaries to people who can thumb their noses at potential employers and not starve/miss rent/become homeless. People who survive at subsistence wages do not get better wages because theyāre instantly replaceable by the next person whoās hungry. Half the goddamn country works for wages that do not help them because they donāt have any other choice.
But you look real comfortable with your class privilege, chief.
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There are many retail employees that I donāt think make a living wage. But I donāt hand out money to the cashier for ringing up my shopping. Should I? Whatās the difference?
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Fair points all, but a bit to the side of the issue I was discussing.
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Its the mentality of American that you need to tip even for shit service ( not bad , Worse that it ) for some reason i need to tip 10% for bad service because they donāt get paid ? if you do a good service i will tip , no service or bad one , why would i tip ? why do i have to take care of the burden of the business not paying them ?
Everywhere else in the world they donāt expect a tip if they donāt do a good service , they do a good one so you tip them , but not doing a good service and still expecting a tip ( and a good one , 10%-15% ) is wrong
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Itās more than a little disingenuous to compare legitimate safety concerns with the length of time and effort it takes to make a sandwich, donāt you think?
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