No More Tipping At NY Restaurant Chain, And Better Wages
Danny Meyer is turning restaurant dining on its head with an effort to provide better wages for employees.
Union Square Hospitality Group, the force behind some of New York’s most important restaurants, will announce today that starting in November, it will roll out an across-the-board elimination of tips at every one of its thirteen full-service venues, hand in hand with an across-the-board increase in prices. It’s a radical move — while many individual high-end restaurants have eliminated tipping, this is surely the first time zero-gratuity will be the universal policy for a major American restaurant group — casual restaurants included. Never before have so many diners been faced with such a sea change in how they pay for a full-service meal, and what they are expected to understand a fair price (and a fair wage) to be.
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rg9rts October 15th, 2015 at 11:49
Still won’t eat out..but what are these wages he is referring to…like walmart ??? Bump the wage cut the hours??
Larry Schmitt October 15th, 2015 at 14:53
It has never made sense to me that customers pay most of a waiter’s salary. The price on the menu is always misleading. But if there was an across the board increase in prices to reflect the true cost of paying the employees, you could never be sure that the owner isn’t keeping more of the increase than he pays in wages.
rg9rts October 15th, 2015 at 14:57
I think of Mario Battali and Wolfgang Puck dipping into the employee tip jar
aNYYANKEEinQueenHaleysCourt October 15th, 2015 at 14:48
Nice Guy Eddie: C’mon, throw in a buck!
Mr. Pink: Uh-uh, I don’t tip.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don’t tip?
Mr. Pink: Nah, I don’t believe in it.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don’t believe in tipping?
Mr. Blue: You know what these chicks make? They make shit.
Mr. Pink: Don’t give me that. She don’t make enough money that she can quit.
Nice Guy Eddie: I don’t even know a fu-king Jew who’d have the balls to say that. Let me get this straight: you don’t ever tip?
Mr. Pink: I don’t tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I’ll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it’s for the birds. As far as I’m concerned, they’re just doing their job.
Mr. Blue: Hey, our girl was nice.
Mr. Pink: She was okay. She wasn’t anything special.
Mr. Blue: What’s special? Take you in the back and suck your di-k?
Nice Guy Eddie: I’d go over twelve percent for that.
aNYYANKEEinQueenHaleysCourt October 15th, 2015 at 14:50
Nice Guy Eddie: C’mon, throw in a buck!
Mr. Pink: Uh-uh, I don’t tip.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don’t tip?
Mr. Pink: Nah, I don’t believe in it.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don’t believe in tipping?
Mr. Blue: You know what these chicks make? They make sh-t.
Mr. Pink: Don’t give me that. She don’t make enough money that she can quit.
Nice Guy Eddie: I don’t even know a f-ing Jew who’d have the balls to say that. Let me get this straight: you don’t ever tip?
Mr. Pink: I don’t tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I’ll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it’s for the birds. As far as I’m concerned, they’re just doing their job.
Mr. Blue: Hey, our girl was nice.
Mr. Pink: She was okay. She wasn’t anything special.
Mr. Blue: What’s special? Take you in the back and suck your d–k?
Nice Guy Eddie: I’d go over twelve percent for that.
robert October 15th, 2015 at 15:17
HEY BIG SPENDER ! this sounds more like a gop wage scheme. with an IOU in 3 yrs Depending on who wins the 2016 election ?
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By ending tipping right now, and paying everyone more equitable
hourly rates or salaries, Meyer can avoid almost all of these issues.
But that’s not the only reason to terminate the gratuity system, and
quickly. Restaurants in New York City are facing all sorts of new margin
pressures: new federal regulations make more employees eligible for
overtime and a state sick leave law now requires up to 40 hours of paid
leave per employee. Most pressingly, a new state wage ordinance
guarantees city fast-food workers a minimum wage of $10.50 as of
December, which will climb to $15 in three years; this means that if
non-fast-food operators don’t raise their employees’ wages, they’ll face
the possibility of an exodus of staff to the greener pastures of
McDonald’s and Burger King.
Merlin October 15th, 2015 at 15:30
Damn reslugs if they can’t just have ALL the money they wont play.