• IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Or, maybe, the owners of the restaurant make slightly less profit and pay their employees a living wage.

    There are a small number of restaurants across the US that actually do pay their servers and other employees reasonable hourly rates, and make it clear to patrons that they don’t accept tips. Prices are still reasonable and customers do continue coming back.

    • Doug [he/him]@midwest.social
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      11 months ago

      Or, maybe, the owners of the restaurant make slightly less profit and pay their employees a living wage.

      And maybe landlord start handing over deeds to the people paying their mortgages. But we’re operating in reality and need to consider things that might happen.

      If companies eat the cost of pay increases how will the executives afford that new yacht they’ve been eyeing?

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      11 months ago

      I know it sounds really easy to get all huffy and self-righteous, but 60% of restaurants do not make it past the first year, and 80% go under in five years.

      It’s hard out there. If the place isn’t making money, everyone loses their job.

      • yata@sh.itjust.works
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        11 months ago

        Yeah, but then it shouldn’t really exist as a business in the first place according to the rules of capitalism, should it?