This is the Roseville CA restaurant whose Owner practices Ba-Hum-Buggery.
Posted on 01/25/2017 7:55:50 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
Yesterday at Dos Coyotes Border Cafe, I get my bill, I ask the food service professional, 'Where's the Tip Line'? (You know, the place on the Merchant Copy where you write in your 10-15%.)
This is the Roseville CA restaurant whose Owner practices Ba-Hum-Buggery.
'Oh, the Owner doesn't feel like paying the Credit Card Company the surcharge, So We Get No Tips.'
(I go off on nazi restaurateurs in my comment, below.)
I carry cash to give to homeless people, not for the workers who have earned my tip, deprival of which is a form of stealing a worker's wages from him, A Crime That Cries Out of the Ground For Blood.
Now we see that Restaurant Owners are 'organizing' to exploit the 'Sanctuary' meme in the most newly-sprouted form of Astro-Turf.
'Restaurants: The next front for the immigration debate?' chirps FoxNews, which never met a Chamber of Commerce or a Business Roundtable it wouldn't hop in bed with.
REAL Journalist Sharyl Attkisson shines the spotlight on their seemy underside in Top 10 Astro-Turfers.
For the non-brainwashed among us, we can decode their fake-views with the phrase, "Safe From...American Workers".
Big Elites, the George Soros' of the world, are all behind it. Breaking down the distinctiveness of national cultures and patriotism helps make the world's populations more docile and easily governed.
“Why Restaurants Are Eliminating Tipping“, proclaims a news article headline. The claims include the ideas, that it promotes bad service, it’s an obsolete concept, and is unnecessary because of the living wage movement.
Restaurant owners are certainly entitled to their point of view, but they are probably poorly served by latching onto “living wage”. But workers have a right to their own direct relationship with customers. Their independent legitimacy as professionals doesn’t have to be dependent upon permission from restaurant owners.
Early twentieth century Britain saw the rise of a national movement, growing out of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum (New Things), called distributism. This was based on the idea that gigantic business and gigantic government were colluding to restrict the freedom of the common people. The archtypical common man, Jones, could only have economic security if he owned his own property and, even if he had to work for another, more powerful person, his ultimate goal needed to be, self-employment. (Coincidentally, the age of cottage industries has been criticized for nothing more than inefficiency, which was “relieved” by the rise of centralized factories during the industrial revolution.)
My chief criticism of “living wage” is that it has the potential to intrude a class of regulators into the economic life of professional service workers. Progressives feel that government is intrinsically enlightened, and must regulate small business and, coincidentally, small workers.
Whether or not this plays out in the long run, uncritical calls for “living wage” ignore the fact that the first obstacle is the heightening of a conflict of interests between small business owners and workers.
I religiously practice tipping because I believe that tips are the property of the workers. I’m not doing them a favor, I owe them the tip for work that they perform. If I didn’t pay my fair tip, I would be defrauding workers of their wages, “a crime, the blood of which calls out of the ground for vengeance.”
Workers at L & L Hawaiian Bar-B-Que were somewhat bemused to see me bringing in a small tip without ordering anything. I didn’t have cash during a previous visit, and I was only paying what I owed.
If I can’t afford to tip, I shouldn’t be patronizing a restaurant. I should be going to the store, taking my own food home and preparing it for myself. Visiting a restaurant is a luxury; if it’s one that I can’t afford, I should refrain from it.
I’m committing a travesty against fundamental justice by omitting my tip. But I certainly don’t need Progressives taking away my freedom by raising prices. The principle of justice, which is only giving people what they’re intrinsically due by their inalienable nature, isn’t something that survives governmentalization.
Someone tell the greedy restaurant owners to find legitimate legal citizens to hire and pay them a decent wage. problem solved. If not they need to find another business to pursue.
Maintaining the status quo, restaurants can allow waiters and other tipped employees to report gratuities monthly, as they have been required to do since 1988. But restaurants run the risk of having the IRS forcibly estimate waiters’ cash tips based on the credit-card tipping rates, à la Fior D’Italia. Waiters may feel compelled to report more tips, so that their own tax returns don’t conflict with their employers’.
Alternatively, restaurants can institute a more rigorous system of tip reporting, and perhaps enter into an agreement with the IRS that will reduce the likelihood the establishment will be audited. “The IRS is telling restaurants, ‘We want you to be the policeman,’” says Isidore Kharasch, president of Hospitality Works Inc., a Deerfield, Illinois, restaurant consultancy.
“(You know, the place on the Merchant Copy where you write in your 10-15%.)”
Standard for most restaurants is 15-20% Even in a coffee shop/diner type of restaurant, if the service and food is great - I usually go 20%+. And usually in cash.
I agree Tips are owed, They’re not a favor.
Huh? Tipping is not whether I can afford - it's whether the server has earned it.
I also will leave the line blank and leave cash. I'm sure not having a tip reported as income is better.
I’m in Costa Rica right now. You don’t tip for anything here, at all. Restaurants typically include a 10% service charge either into their prices, or as an extra line item on your bill.
This is soooo much better than visiting Mexico, or the US for that matter, where you’re expected to tip for everything.
The rise in the minimum wage will make the question of what and when to tip moot for some folks. Higher prices mean some customers won’t be eating out as much. Fewer customers, fewer tips.
So leave some cash on the table.
This restaurant owner ought to be ashamed of himself.
They should be raided and closed down.
I carry cash to give to homeless people, not for the workers who have earned my tip
We always leave the tip in cash. If you looked at credit card records, we've never tipped anyone.
That way, the IRS has no idea how much I left. Any time I can keep money out of Uncle Sam's greedy hands, I will do so.
As someone who works in the industry, I don’t want to have to learn another language in order to communicate with my co-workers. I am blessed that I will be working for someone who understands that the workers in his restaurant need to be legal citizens.
(In a wholly hypothetical sense, that is, because I would never personally engage in such a practice)
Why not? Why leave a record of the tip when you don’t have to? Especially in a place where the owner won’t let his employees be tipped to avoid the credit card fees?
Not too many years back the Republican Governors’ Association meeting in Washington had as their speaker the restaurant entrepreneur Danny Meyer, author of Setting the Table.In the Q&A following his discussion a governor asked about the tipping issue. Meyer said that he considered tipping anachronistic. The restauranteur, to his way of thinking, was the one to decide which of his employees was paid what.
OTOH I had an occasion in which I was eager that the service be excellent, for friends who I did not expect to see soon again - and there, I did want to be able to tip. I took the waiter aside and told him the tip would be 30% if the service was good.
Well, I would never leave a tip in cash. Some wait staff may not report cash tips as income, you know.
Well, I would never leave a tip in cash. Some wait staff may not report cash tips as income, you know.
And?
And I would never be an accessory to tax evasion. That would be wrong and I would want to prove, by my public comments, that I would never, ever, do such a thing.
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