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Bluestone, which now has 20 stores in the U.S., went cashless last October.
A big reason: Nearly 90 percent of customers [...] never paid in cash.
Another reason: The lines move faster when employees don't have to make change.
"We see a lot of guests that pay for a meal with a credit card, but will always leave a cash tip. And I think people like doing that. People like palming a bartender a $20 or palming their server a $10. Palming the bus boy a couple bucks," said Fileccia.
There are also people, he said, who want to keep their meal off the books — if they're having an affair, for example.
No, businesses are not required to accept cash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender
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revolutionary, adj.:
Repackaged.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 09 2018, @05:28PM (9 children)
See, here's where we differ: you want some magical, infitely deep-pocketed Employer to be responsible for making sure employees are comfortably able to pay their bills and have enough left over to buy a big ole bag of weed every two weeks. I prefer the employees to be responsible for how much they earn according to their ability. They do a far better job and they make significantly more than they would otherwise.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @05:47PM (1 child)
Just make the tip mandatory and then everyone wins!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 09 2018, @11:15PM
Not everyone deserves to make a livable wage for waiting tables. Some people are so shitty they deserve less than they're being paid by their employer even.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @06:25PM
What the fuck, buzz? Bad argument!
The employer is an EMPLOYER, not a contractor. The moment when waitstaff are independent agents who get a commission or whatever for every client they serve, sure. Until then...
I know! Here's the thought experiment for you!
I get hired as a waiter, by a restaurant that pays only tips, to work 1pm-5pm, 7d/wk. My job includes cleaning, rollups, etc while not waiting tables. That restaurant then starts putting signs out front at noon, saying 'come back at 5pm.' Now I'm earning $0/hr but doing productive work for a profiting company.
Get it now?
Servers are not responsible for:
-advertising
-scheduling appropriate waitstaff count
-kitchen supply
-weather
-etc.
All of these - yes even weather!* - need to be accounted for by the employer. They have employed me. They haven't offered me piecemeal work at any tables I can find where people are hoping for food. If my employer decides to schedule double the waitstaff, without clientele increasing, why am I suddenly working the same hours for half the pay? It's not my decision when to open the doors in the morning, nor how many others I will work beside.
Paying employees of a larger entity in tips is /insane/ if you put /any/ thought into it.
Paying individuals a tip, or even making the tip be the whole payment, is fine. It's not fine to get free labour, with the hope of tips if all goes well. That's an abusive power structure.
*weather: really! if a rainstorm is coming in, let some staff go home, it's going to be a quiet night! If it's a balmy game night, call extras in to handle the volume! If you'd ever worked in a kitchen you'd understand this.
(Score: 3, Informative) by crafoo on Tuesday January 09 2018, @08:25PM (5 children)
If an employer cannot pay a livable wage they should not be allowed to operate their business. Either their business is not worth having around, or they are so bad at it someone else should take over their customers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @08:55PM (1 child)
FDR is dead and your 20th century New Deal fantasy is dead. We live in the 21st century now when social media tech bros are billionaires and selfish sacks of rotting pigshit like Buzzard are mighty successful.
The Great Depression is repeating and the Gilded Age is repeating and stupid shit like Buzzard is too stupid to notice.
Morons like Buzzard learned nothing from history. Buzzard wouldn't learn his lesson if he received a railroad spike through his worthless skull.
So fuck you because Buzzard got his.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 09 2018, @11:12PM
If you can't make more than your employer would pay you for waiting tables off of tips, absolutely fuck you. Your dumb ass just failed at smiling and keeping glasses from running empty. If I can do a job involving constant interaction with other people well, anyone can do that job well if they make even a miniscule effort to.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 09 2018, @11:13PM (2 children)
Let me get this straight... It's perfectly fine for wait staff to be paid less than they make now so long as the money passes through the employer's hands on the way to theirs? You are a fucking moron and an asshole.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @11:00PM (1 child)
> It's perfectly fine for wait staff to be paid less than they make now so long as the money passes through the employer's hands on the way to theirs?
That's not at all what was said. How did you read that? Did you skip a couple of words?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 10 2018, @11:38PM
That is exactly what you said.
A) Competent wait staff always make more than the employer thinks they should.
B) The only difference between the customer paying them and adding it to the price then having the employer pay them is the extra step.
But lets be real clear here. You don't give a shit about any of that. What you care about is that wait staff that can't be arsed to even half-ass it don't make a livable wage while those that work hard make out quite nicely. It's nothing but democracy, asshat. One customer, one vote. Your notions though? I've heard something like them before... What was it? Something like "From each according to his ability. To each according to his greed." wasn't it?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.