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Yes wages are prices set for labor, if you receive more in wages than the market price than that is charity. If the owner decides to do that I think that reflects well on him, though I think there are more deserving objects of charity than restaurant workers, but if the owner thinks differently good for him.
But ultimately the market price is what a willing buyer and a willing seller agree on, so whatever the employer offers and the employee accepts is the market price for that particular worker.
Your second link, Longhorn Steakhouse, is owned by Darden Restaurants. Darden apparently does not like the Affordable Care Act and is reducing hours of its employees, making them part-time, so Darden doesn’t have to pay for their healthcare.
Services are local. Goods often have to compete internationally. Both are limited by what the end consumer will pay.
Personally, I try to purchase items made in my country. I will pay a small premium for that. I also try not to purchase items from countries who do not represent my desires whether it be environmental, labor, or for other reasons.
I think I’m the exception to the rule on purchase decisions. Cost is too great a consideration to be ignored.
With that said I’m not happy with the recently passed health care law. IMO it’s an overreach by the government into the world of business and will damage an already weakened economy by placing additional costs on businesses. I don’t see how it can be any other way.
god yes. the tip system gets tiresome, just build it in.
People don’t patronize Chick-fil-a because of how they treat their employees. They eat there because the chicken sandwich is good.
It’s the quality of the product that people are willing to pay more for whether it’s Whole Foods, In-n-Out Burger, etc. It’s not because they provide benefits for their employees.
Restaurants that aren’t already successful will have a hard time raising prices with mediocre products to be able to pay benefits.
Good; there are too many low grade, shitty restaurants around anyway. The majority of them being big chains that are bitching about the ACA.
Yes, if they go out of business this will give the employees of shitty restaurants a chance to risk their own money and open a better establishment. They can then pay their employees a handsome salary. Problem solved.
I think I’d patronize the ones that provided better benefits to their workers. After all, that’s pretty much why I never go to Walmart or Sam’s club and keep renewing a membership to Costco that I use maybe twice a year.
I will definitely go to better places and by better products. Frankly Papa Johns is the cheapest edible pizza around me. I will never pay for that pizza again. I will either pony up for better pizza or buy something else. I want no part of that company.
I don’t have much money at all, so whenever I eat out, I factor in a large tip as the overall cost. If I can’t tip properly, I won’t eat it…
I am not sure who the better companies are but if one comes out right bad, then I won’t patronize them. As bad as Target can be, I still go there as opposed to Walmart. I have known people who work there and had a good experience so I have no problem… and I am sure I would be paying a little less if I shopped at Walmart. Of course Walmart is pretty far for me, so if I lived near one, that would be true test.
I’m trying to figure this one out. Now I could understand a person who said they’d go with the cheapest option no matter what, even if it meant it came from slave labor. But this is just some Monty Burns shit right here. What’s your reasoning for this? Would you pay a little extra to give it to the company that shafted everyone the hardest?
No, I am willing to pay more at chain restaurants that offer better food and service. I could care less what they pay their staff. That’s why I am more likely to eat at a Ruths Chris than an Outback Steakhouse.
I call bullshit on the chain restaurant CEOs as well. Do they plan to run their restaurants with no employees?
Yes, adding 15-20% can be hard.
The math is the easy part. Knowing when to tip is difficult. Everywhere you swipe your cc the receipt has a line for a tip. There are threads about it. It really makes no sense. Whether I sit in your place and eat and you clean up after me or I take it to go, I am supposed to tip the same?
I would patronize a sweatshop if it’d save me ten cents on a cuppanoodle.
If a company saw fit to toot their own horn like that, I think I’d be mighty curious how much the CEO makes, how much their bonus is, and if said CEO volunteered to take a more reasonable salary in exchange for both providing a living wage and benefits for their employees AND not gouge their customers to accomplish it.
I can and do pay more when I can – I buy produce from the farmers market for as long as it runs when, on the whole, it tends to be more expensive than the grocery store. On the other hand, the produce is markedly better than what I can get at any store. But being pretty poor myself, there are limits to this, and I would expect a higher quality product for a higher than average price, and I don’t believe the current system of screwing over either the employees or the customers (or both) to line the pockets of the bigwigs is an adequate excuse to sell equivalent-quality goods for a higher price. It’s unnecessary for me to subsidize some dude’s high-end luxury lifestyle; no one needs a mansion, they can live in an ordinary-sized house like the rest of us. (And actually, a substantial number of the rest of us can’t afford that ordinary house, either, so they’re still substantially better off.) The CEO might have to live with only 5 Lamborghini’s instead of 10 of them. Boohoo. (I’d challenge any of these CEOs to live for a year on $20K with no medical, where the sacrifices they have to make are more on the order of buying adequate food vs. paying rent.)
So, that said, if a store saw fit to advertise that their employees got a living wage, benefits, excellent training, AND the CEO reapportioned a few million from his own paycheck towards making this happen, I’d certainly be more likely to shop there.
Not to get off topic, but the general rule is if you pay before you eat, no tip. Pay after you eat, leave a 15-20% tip.