It's effin' propaganda... Pay workers a decent wage without whining 🤬

[In It to Win It]

Laureen L.
@LaureenNarro

Dear restaurant owners, please don’t do this on your receipts 🧾
It’s effin’ propaganda. Do you create and call out a “surcharge” when the cost of coffee beans goes up? Or eggs or butter? No you do not. Pay workers a decent wage without whining 🤬

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[Walleye]

1. I think many businessman look at payroll is highway robbery

I guess they think people will work for them for peanuts if they are desperate enough. That’s why they hate low unemployment like it is now

[erronis]

7. I think those businesses should go back to the model of just hiring their own family.

Then they don't have to pay them anything.

They might lose their family tho. And their "business model" will suck.

Or perhaps they should just get behind the counter and do all the work themselves?

[Rebl2]

8. Business owners: If we

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just didn’t have to pay those pesky employees, we would have soooo much more money-sarcasm thingy. That’s what I have thought of employers since the 1980’s. Yesterday they closed a local Starbucks I believe because they have been trying to unionize. Starbucks made up some lame excuses. I am no fan of Starbucks because I don’t like coffee.

[slumcamper]

9. An anti-wage mentality toward labor is part of what sustained a system of slavery, is it not? n/t

[Rebl2]

10. Absolutely!

[dchill]

2. Jeezus.

[gratuitous]

3. Note that their 4% surcharge is in part for higher wages, but isn't paid to service staff

Whiner.

[denbot]

4. I would never visit that place more than once

If that.

[Wednesdays]

5. Who does this?

If I find out who did this, I will be sure to let everyone I know not to patronize that establishment!

[Pepsidog]

6. I wouldn't return to a place that did this. When you own a restaurant sometimes goods are cheap and

sometimes they are not. 25 years ago I owned a restaurant and because of some event lettuce went up from like $5 for a huge box to like $50 for the same amount. I didn’t like it but that’s business. I guess one could say that this 4% “surcharge” is temporary and better than a permanent increase in goods. My daughter bought a new Honda and paid sticker plus $1,500 and other BS charges the ordinarily we would never accept like $500 for etching. But she needed a car and it was better than paying $5000 over list that Kia was charging. The Honda sales woman said she thinks the manufacturers are perfectly happy with the new demand and full price cost of cars and thinks it will never go down. She might be right.

[Wounded Bear]

11. So basically their 4% surcharge goes directly to profits...nt