• krisevol@lemmus.org
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    9 hours ago

    It’s kinda the opposite. Customers prefer places that pay very little. They did studies with consumers and told them one menu pays a living wage, but when they say the slight increase in prices they choose the other option.

    It’s not the employer, it’s largely the customers that continue this trend

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      4 hours ago

      Of course given the choice, customers prefer to pay less for the same thing. That’s basic economics. It kind of needs to be all or nothing.

      I voted to end tip wages, but of course I’ll go to the place that saves me money. This is why ending tip wages for all has to be the starting point

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      9 hours ago

      Employers can make the menu the same price by just limiting the profits. But of course, they present that option as impossible. “It’s either a living wage or an expensive menu”, and let the peasants fight over it.

      And yet this issue doesn’t exist almost anywhere else except on USA, even when meals are cheaper.

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        8 hours ago

        Again this isn’t what the study showed. It shows the consumer in America will largely pick the cheaper menu then if everything is the same but the staff get paid more. The consumer is perpetuating this problem.

        The only way to stop low pay and the system is to ask agree to stop tipping.

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          7 hours ago

          You are ignoring what I said. You say people don’t like price increases. I say price increases are not necessary. You say people still don’t like price increases.

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            6 hours ago

            I never said people didn’t like price increases

            I’ll have to find it, but the study was between two different menus. One with tipping, and one with the tip already baked in so the staff for a higher salary but trying want required. The final price for each menu was the same (if you tipped).

            Customer preferred to tipping menu.