Not many of those in the US. But I do this where I live. I do not support any restaurant here that expects tips so they don’t need to pay a living wage.
You could at least try to enter the name of the restaurant into a search engine and see what comes up, and then compare that wage to a living wage chart for the area. I’m seeing the estimated average pay for a server at 5 Napkin Burger (mentioned in the article) is $24.04 per hour, and the living wage for a single adult with 0 children is $38.21 per hour, so, looks like workers at 5 Napkin Burger need tips to survive. God help them if they’re a single mother, I guess.
That took me ten minutes.
If you aren’t willing to do the bare minimum to ensure you aren’t hurting people, I doubt you actually give a shit about them.
This is hilarious. I have difficulty beliving this is what Americans do before every visit to a restaurant.
And what gets me is that it’s not even to ensure that the employer is providing a living wage to their employees! It’s to ensure that you, as the customer, are adequetly supplementing the wage of your server, so that they don’t end up homeless.
Tourists are not responsible for ensuring that everyone in the resturant are paid accordingly to survive. That’s supposed to be the US governments job.
And how many of these 10 minute lookups do you think tourists have in them before they need to just get something to eat?
They would unironically have to catch their flights home before they find this magical US resturant that actually pay their staff a decent wage.
You could choose not to eat at restaurants that take advantage of their workers. That’s always an option.
Not many of those in the US. But I do this where I live. I do not support any restaurant here that expects tips so they don’t need to pay a living wage.
If I discover a restaurent doing this, for sure I report this to the syndicats and medias. And shame them by name every time I can.
So, every time I’m traveling abroad, and about to go into a resturant, i should pull aside someone and ask if they’re being taken advantage of?
Oh no, you have to do the bare minimum to ensure you aren’t participating in exploitation. You poor thing.
So what’s your process? Please share. How many of the staff members do i need to ask if they are being exploited by their employer?
Do you ask the kitchen staff as well to get a more broad sample size?
What’s my process? I tip, sizzlechest.
You could at least try to enter the name of the restaurant into a search engine and see what comes up, and then compare that wage to a living wage chart for the area. I’m seeing the estimated average pay for a server at 5 Napkin Burger (mentioned in the article) is $24.04 per hour, and the living wage for a single adult with 0 children is $38.21 per hour, so, looks like workers at 5 Napkin Burger need tips to survive. God help them if they’re a single mother, I guess.
That took me ten minutes.
If you aren’t willing to do the bare minimum to ensure you aren’t hurting people, I doubt you actually give a shit about them.
This is hilarious. I have difficulty beliving this is what Americans do before every visit to a restaurant.
And what gets me is that it’s not even to ensure that the employer is providing a living wage to their employees! It’s to ensure that you, as the customer, are adequetly supplementing the wage of your server, so that they don’t end up homeless.
Is this what stockholm syndrome feels like?
Tourists are not responsible for ensuring that everyone in the resturant are paid accordingly to survive. That’s supposed to be the US governments job.
And how many of these 10 minute lookups do you think tourists have in them before they need to just get something to eat?
They would unironically have to catch their flights home before they find this magical US resturant that actually pay their staff a decent wage.
Sounds like something the government should be doing, not every tourist that ever visits.
It takes about 10 minutes to look up the local customs of a place you are going to.