The more you invest in something, the more you should get out. LOL.... not quite $25/hr, but $14 is a good start.
boo-hoo. As a 'co-owner', maybe you should raise your prices instead of expecting a tip. If you want a tip, earn it. Don't expect it.
I thought usually the owners that cut hair would be at the higher expertise level and charge more due to there experience. Thats what my gf told me. I still believe in tipping the hair stylist but I dont think the owners are cutting at cost or like another poster mention that you may want to increase your prices then.
That's the entire restaurant industry, the kitchen works exponentially harder than the front staff but it's rare that they get anything. Nice (rich) people at nice restaurants will occasionally buy the kitchen staff a beer. You tip the stylist/barber that cuts your hair.
yea I own a nail salon so it's pretty much the same. I don't understand why he said you tip the owner. The owners get a commission of all the services that are done. The stylist gets the commission and the tip.
This whole epidemic would stop if we all just stopped tipping....cold turkey. Then employers will be forced to increase wages or they will lose their labor force. To compensate, employers will increase prices to a level that covers the increased wages but does not diminish sales. Then all the guess work will be gone and we would function like all other countries.
I do hate it when they "ask" for tip. I worked at restaurants, food trucks, I never ask for tip. You give it or not that's up to you. But I provide top shelf service no matter if you do or don't, because that's my job. Now in restaruants, I always tip at least 15-18% - if the server is exceptionally good then 20%. I don't really tip if it's the places where you order at the counter and pick up your own food, but if they were nice and try to strike up a friendly convo i'll give a $ or $$.
I know at a certain japanese grill restaruant the servers have to tip out to the chefs/bussers every night no matter how much tip they got. So if they didn't make anything that night, they have to PERSONALLY take out their money to give to the chefs/bussers. It sucks. But that's on the owners/management, the waiters/waitresses still have to live..
For a writer you seem to miss the entire point. It's not about being able to afford to pay tip, nobody is arguing they are too poor to tip. It's about a stupid system that has fallen far far from its original purpose, which is to reward extra levels of service. Now it became a mandatory thing for no reason other than owners arbitrarily don't want to pay their staff forces it onto the customers. Also tipping is neither balanced or fair to everybody in the service, some hardworking people gets nothing, some people rewarded just because it's the way it is. No other continent in the world operates like North America with the tipping culture, and yet people will keep harping on being cheap, even though it's clearly not about the specific amount of money being spent on tips.
I agree with person a few posts above. Why should I pay waiter more for bringing out a $30 steak vs an $8 appetizer? Did basically the exact same work.
Including upgrading my PC and possible gaming paraphernalia, probably around 2-3k a year. And like some people already pointed out, you missed the point.
If you cannot afford to tip on a $30 steak, then don't order a $30 steak... Also, where in the hell are you eating where you get a $30 steak? Do you hit Applebee's for the all you can eat salad from the horse trough and a well done petite New York strip with A-1 and slap down a $2 tip?
Giving money away for no reason? Get out of here, you cheap ****. You obviously do not appreciate service.
It's their companies that don't appreciate service. If they did they would pay them a good wage instead of expecting their customers to act as some pseudo-employer.
