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.
So how come it works in other countries where health insurance and a living wage are standard for employees? The gods there isn't more expensive.
You can see on the schnitzel crime sub how much they cost in Europe vs how much they cost here and in many cases they are similarly priced.
It sort of doesn't. Food businesses have the biggest failure rate of business in a lot of places. Unless you're running a fine dining place or keep overheads low (hole-in-the-wall takeaway, for e.g) there's no money in food. It's mostly from the drinks you sell alongside the food.
So true. When I was working at a small cafe/ restaurant the owner had me do a ton of work on the computer for her. I saw how much was invested into the restaurant, versus how much she spent on produce and other goods, employee wages etc. the margin was not good.
Ah, poor lady. If she was in the black instead of the red she was doing better than most. Small-business cafes are like bookshops. Just a labour of love, rarely a profit-driving business.
Yes. It’s one of the only cafes in our rural area in the Sierra Foothills in CA. They do best during tourist season.
However, she fired me because of this incident where this asshole with dreads left his dog in the car while he came in to get a beer and then ordered food. It was the summer and was an especially hot day - it was over 100 degrees out. It is illegal and just wrong to do that - the dog could have died.
The owner looked the other way when people brought dogs inside on days like that, so I told him he was welcome to bring his dog inside. He ignored me. So then I asked a male customer who came in everyday to help me convince the dreaded asshole to bring his dog inside. He listened to him.
At that point I was seeing red, but I still was polite to this asshole. However on his meal ticket (which was just a note to myself, the customer never saw it) I wrote “dreaded asshole” rather than just “guy with dreads” which I normally would have written to help me remember where the food went (I did everything but cook - I was the cashier, waiter, dishwasher etc. so it was hard to remember what went where).
I stupidly did not throw away that note after my shift ended. She found it and fired me so now I spitefully want the place to fail. 😈
Yes and no, after COVID prices have gotten a good 50% increase which is not reflected in raw materials and wages. But yeah, the margins on food stuff are still relatively tiny.
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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.