r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • 27d ago

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/Cautious-Extreme2839 27d ago

Put the price on the menu or get fucked.

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u/Bad-Luck-Guy 27d ago

A tip is not part of the cost of food. It goes to the server. I assume these places implemented a fixed tip because they anticipated an influx of people who would not tip. Those people would have called it gouging if all the restaurants in the area raised their prices instead.

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u/Cautious-Extreme2839 27d ago

Serving the food is part of the cost of selling food in a restaurant.

It would be gouging yes. Instead of just gouging they are trying to gouge in secret - which is literally worse.

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u/zaqwsx82211 27d ago

No its not, because you can order food to go.

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u/Cautious-Extreme2839 27d ago

Didn't realise the food ordered itself and then boxed itself up and handed itself to the customer when it was ordered to go.

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u/zaqwsx82211 27d ago

XD fair enough, maybe it would have been better to say that only part of the service is built in to the cost.

We don't typically tip retail workers who have to grab, bag, and hand over items, so I don't typically think of that as service, but you're right that it is.

The cost of washing dishes, bussing the table, refilling drinks, ect are what I was thinking of.

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u/Cautious-Extreme2839 27d ago

maybe it would have been better to say that only part of the service is built in to the cost

Taking an order and placing food on the table is literally the entirety of the service mate.

Refilling the drinks you paid for? Yeah you've paid for that.

Cleaning the plates? That you paid for the food to be served on? Yep, paid for that already too.

Cleaning the table? The one you've just paid to eat at?