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.
I think it is the same everywhere. The restaurant business is just that brutal. Razor thin margins and getting enough people to dine at your place at the start is a huge challange in itself. The odds of failing are high and very few people make it to profit.
In Czechia we have something called Stravenky, which are food coupons that employers can give to their employees tax free, as a benefit. That helps the restaurant business quite a bit. It’s a good system.
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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.