This is what leftist demands for $15 an hour does…
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Fyi… minimum wage 1982 was $3.35/hr. Today that is about $10.50/hr. But that is still a 50 percent bump to labor rate. In an industry where margins are fractions of a cent .
So computers it is!
Sirhr
That's happening in a lot of restaurants, not just McDonald's. This is brings up the issue of tipping.
I always tip the waiters and waitresses if I get good service. Even if the service needs some improvement, I will still be a generous tipper. Who knows, maybe they are having a bad day.
Some of the places that have the Kiosk waiters ask for a tip. So another question comes up; how much of a gratuity is considered appropriate for a robot?
Think carefully before answering. There are people in the back that are preparing food. Unless it's completely automated a person brings the food out to the customer.
Now let me diverge for a moment. A long time ago, I was a bartender. I didn't last very long in that career. There were several waitresses in the
joint lounge where I worked.
One night, a waitress came up to me and handed me some money. I asked her what it was for. She told me that it was customary for the waitress to split her tips with the bartenders. After all, the quicker we could get her the drinks, the sooner they were brought to the customers.
She was the ONLY waitress in the
joint lounge that shared her tip money with the bartenders. So guess which waitress got her drink order first?
I bring that up because there are people in the back of these places that work to get the food to the customers who have never seen a dime of tip money. Now I understand that there are a lot of factors that play into the wages and tips earned for various members of the staff of many restaurants. So I'm not offering a one-size-fits-all solution to tipping etiquette.
There is one pizza place that I've patronized where ALL of the tips; cash or by credit card are put into one big pot and at the end of the evening. Then the socialist doctrine is applied to dividing it up.
So the waitress that busts her ass waiting on customers all night long has to give up the lion's share of her portion to the other server that moves with the speed of peanut butter sliding down a window pane.
I've stopped eating there and go to another pizza place where they build the pizza in front of you. No waitress. You name is called when it's ready.
Everyone behind the counter is working. The labor is equally divided. The question is asked about a tip in the credit card reader. So I tip, and everyone gets an equal share working to fill my order.