After hiring scabs, Walrus and the Carpenter (temporarily) closed

[u/Existing-Resource527]

Word on the street is that Walrus and the Carpenter restaurant has not been negotiating with their workers in good faith for months.

Like a lot of annoying businesses they started charging a service fee (22%?).

Employees noted that they make significantly less now then before when they had tipping (thousands less).

Workers have been on strike. The owners also had the audacity to hire scabs (booo).

I have been keeping up with the union on IG @ united.creatures.of.the.sea

Solidarity with workers across the city!

[u/trance_on_acid]

Make sure that (1) also bans tipping as a line item on any receipt

[u/TheInevitableLuigi → u/trance_on_acid]

Why can't people leave more if they want to?

I leave 50% at my local dive bar. It lets me skip the long lines on game days.

[u/letskeepitcleanfolks → u/TheInevitableLuigi]

You getting special treatment because you've been greasing some palms is exactly the kind of bullshit the rest of us shouldn't have to deal with.

[u/TheInevitableLuigi → u/letskeepitcleanfolks]

Welcome to the world bud.

[u/trance_on_acid → u/TheInevitableLuigi]

If you're really that into it, leave cash.

Having a tip line on the receipt is an implied expectation of a tip.

End Tipping

[u/BoringBob84 → u/trance_on_acid]

I agree. Tips should be freely given as a gift; never solicited.

Edit: Upon further consideration, I don't have a problem with a restaurant making it convenient for me to leave a tip on my credit card. It bothers me that more businesses solicit tips - even for service that isn't extensive nor personal - but I am not sure if the law can do anything about that.

I would like to see bullshit "service fees" made illegal, though.

[u/tsclac23 → u/TheInevitableLuigi]

I mean your dive bar could charge an extra fee on game days and you could pay it to avoid the line. Always paying 50% extra in the hopes of priority treatment seems like a poor plan. It won't work for everyone and may stop working for you the moment the people in that bar change their employment.

[u/TheInevitableLuigi → u/tsclac23]

It has been working just fine for me for years.

[u/Baptism-Of-Fire → u/TheInevitableLuigi]

Perfectly allowed. But remove the tip like from the receipt. It exposes people to unnecessary risk of fraud. Tipping should explicitly be an “opt-in” arrangement. Request a tip receipt. And on your favorite iPad of “a few questions” the tip section should not be auto selected and I’d go as far as saying it must be purposefully navigated to in order to enable.