Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ed P Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Last night was "surf and coop." Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 17:39:20 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <67caf01a$13$1786$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <47c0744f2bd51cc37e867bf09eed7ae7@www.novabbs.org> <452ff357f9191c16a0cd7fe8d0f711c7@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 23:39:22 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bffe483549b3973ad41be991653ec93a"; logging-data="382335"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18sChe0Q6fg38hWJ5ncCqqTG9FOIExeyWA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:vK7k6+Yf10sz1Bv5Puy5rsfhj/o= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2262 On 3/8/2025 5:33 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote: > On 2025-03-08, Dave Smith wrote: >> >> Make it something close to what they would be expected to make with >> tips. They are the restaurant's employees so they should be responsible >> for paying their employees, not the customers. > > The customers pay the employees either way. > Yes, but they don't want to pay them. Customers want to make a good wage but want to buy stuff cheap. I see no one yet tried putting a $$ figure on what a server should make. I will say, the right person in the right place can do far better than minimum.