Shortly before opening, Casa Bonita’s new owners Matt Stone and Trey Parker decided to eliminate tipping and instead pay workers a flat wage of $30 per hour.
Now I could be wrong, but getting a an hourly wage as a restaurant worker is FAR better than relying on tips. I feel like either workers in this situation are too obsessed with tips or there’s huge context missing.
Ehhhh, I’ve worked back of house forever, where I currently am we get a cut of sales thst more or less equals out to the same as server’s tips, $30 would math out to a higher wage, so I’d tske that deal. Also most places back of house gets like 10 percent of the tips and it’s like $40 a week and just above minimum wage pay, so I have found it pretty hard as someone who actually makes the food to be pro tip cause higher server wages can be leveraged for higher cook wages.
When I worked delivery before the app era (think Uber eats but before it existed) I knew the people (almost exclusively women) that packed the to-go orders. At some places, ones that didn’t get a lot of to-go orders, the MOD did the packing and that was fine. At others, it was a heavily politicked position. No one wanted to be the person that did these, as it was untipped, so everyone was against each other. At Texas Roadhouse specifically, it was the newest people and the subtext of more than one overheard conversation implied that those with a smaller chest had little-to-no chance of getting “on the floor” without “being cool and hanging out with (one of) the managers outside work”. I don’t want to read overmuch into that, but it made my skin crawl. I know there was no solidarity there though, the only people that got tipped out were the host and bartender, and those were essentially bribes.
America delenda est.
At least where I am things have gotten better regarding tipping BOH and pooling tips. Last place I worked BOH got equal share in the tips and this one we get a percentage of the sales that averages out to around what servers get for tips.