I just talked to someone who kept going on about how business owners take risks. I don't know why tipping culture didn't pop up in my mind. Businesses create so many BS ways to screw everyone and benefit themselves, fuck the risk involved. Pay your fucking workers a living wage. And if you can't, then you're running your business wrong or something in your lifestyle is gonna have to change.
Even for business owners, restaurants are still one of the worst ways to make money- huge overhead costs, long hours, and the broken tipping culture of the US means wait staff will be a revolving door.
And the competition is brutal. Opening a new restaurant is still the number one way to fail at starting a new business. The odds of failure is something like 95%.
"Don't worry kid, sometime after your 5th restaurant you have a really good shot at success..."
Yeah, the fattest country in the world really likes it's comfort /fast food...
I talked to a small restaurant owner that started a couple of years back and he said in the time he is open there were a dozen other restaurants that opened and closed. The difference with him is he buys stuff when he has money. So he didn't get a big loan and it might take longer to get everything new and pretty but there is no loan payment.
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u/zeuanimals Aug 28 '24 edited Aug 28 '24
I just talked to someone who kept going on about how business owners take risks. I don't know why tipping culture didn't pop up in my mind. Businesses create so many BS ways to screw everyone and benefit themselves, fuck the risk involved. Pay your fucking workers a living wage. And if you can't, then you're running your business wrong or something in your lifestyle is gonna have to change.