Zuby: How things are priced across the world vs the USA
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Not only that, we pay $100.00 even though it was made in Chy-na for about .80 cents because some greedy azz American like one of the "Sharks" wants to make a 9,000% mark up on it.
Zuby, my only disagreement if the tipping. Tipping is the means to ensure good, attentive service. Your server should have skin in the game, not a guaranteed income regardless of their performance. But the rest? Yeah.
Tipping should be abandoned entirely. If you are on the job - any job, you had better provide good attentive service.
Carrying a plate from the kitchen to the table is not that difficult.
And if your server is slow, surly and eventually gets your order wrong after ignoring you for 30 minutes, he/she should make the same living as the conscientious, cheerful, attentive and reliable server? I do not agree. Those who are good servers prefer to work for tips. Lesser servers do not. Perfectly logical. And, yes, I've done the job.
Its like literally any other business. If you have an employee not fulfilling their end of the bargain then you fire them. Its on the owners to make sure they have good employees, not the customers. If the owner doesn't want as many customers, he's free to keep around the shitty employees.
If a server is slow, surly, and makes mistakes, perhaps the supervisor should recognize the problem and get someone else to do the simple job of moving plates from point A to point B.
No they should be shown the door. Especially when the cooks get that exact treatment. Treat FOH and BOH the same, nobody should get special treatment just because you hear the guest's voice.
Waiters are paid less than normal jobs because tips. So it is in their best interest to be as good as they can to earn a better tip.
I have noticed that some online orders are automatically adding a tip in as well. This is going to come back and bite them.
Tipping is mostly because of the low profit margins for restaurants and the resulting low wages of the servers. Servers in Michigan make far less than minimum wage and make that up through a 15% tip.
Now not all restaurants are equal. When I go to Leos Coney Island Im likely to just give the server a 20. If I were to go to a chain restaurant like Red Lobster, those servers make much more than a Leos server and Id leave the 15% to 20% depending on service. But If I go to a high end restaurant at a resort or in the city those servers get 10% max. If Im spending 250$ or more on drinks and a meal for 2 that Restaurant can pay their people more.
Anyway thats how Ive always looked at it. And I always tip in cash never on the card. Let those people hide some income from the beast if they want.
Leo's Coney Island, is awesome! I eat at the one in Birch Run, when I vacation in Frankenmuth.
And in South Africa you pay bribes.
Been abroad. Actually, depending on the place, all this fuckery is also present, but the taxes and the profit margin are all added in the price shown on the tag on display on the shelf.
In NYC, I was just paying a water bill.
there is anew charge on the bill: an MTA fee.
The MTA is public transit.
WTF does my water bill have to do with buses and trains?
About sums it up.
And I thought UK's Value Added Tax of 20% was bad.
As much as I love zuby, I don’t know what he’s talking about here. Maybe in some states this happens but in my state it’s simply the stated price plus tax which is 6%. Pretty easy to figure out in your head.
Yeah hes missing the mark. Taxes are a problem, but a lot more so in everything else besides sales tax
In Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, and some other European countries I've visited, all of the taxes are built into the advertised price thus making the total tax hidden from the customer.
Would rather have the us way, tax added after so you can see how hard taxes are kicking you, instead of it being already included and easter to ignore.
You could argue that it’s more transparent. In other countries they don’t advertise just how much the price of various things (fuel, alcohol, houses) is due to government taxation.
Ain’t that the truth!!!😏
In NC the servers are taxed on tips that are paid with a card. They aren’t taxed on cash. They make from 5-10 dollars an hour. As someone said, they service depends on tips. Some people automatically tip 15%, that’s what is expected. If they bring me my food & I have to hunt them or others down for my needs they are lucky to get 10%. There’s some chain restaurants I won’t go to in my town because service is so bad. But I’ll visit if I’m out of town. That’s an over all management problem & the class of people working low paying jobs.
It's why I'll never have a landline again, even if it's free. They try to give it to you now with your internet. I said no thanks, it'll cost me 15 dollars at least in taxes and fees.
Don't forget taxing the tip
Reminds me of a hotel room cost: room cost, state sales tax, occupancy task. If you rent an Air BNB, you will also pay a cleaning fee, so much for a dog staying, and sometimes an owner’s fee.
Don't forget the abnb booking fee.
True.
There are 97 different taxes. https://paradigmlife.net/blog/ready-to-get-depressed-how-many-different-taxes-do-i-pay/
Looks like he hasn't been in Canada!
Right. Hold our heavily-taxed Molson's.