This is the way. All the years I waited tables I always reported 0% cash because why the fucklenuck would you?
OT- I’m really starting to have a bone to pick with the food service industry
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This is the way. All the years I waited tables I always reported 0% cash because why the fucklenuck would you?
Then you better not go to your local KFC. They are the worst on getting orders correct.
Eggs had been under $1 for a long time pre-2022. Wife paid $3.79 for a dozen at Aldi this morning. Sour cream used to fluctuate around $0.85, paid $1.79 today. We’re considering buying chickens and a cow.
I've been told by the workers in Davis Wade that they don't get the tips left on the iPad's. They don't know for sure who does.
A metaphor for the recent budget busting price increases in this country is one of the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dyke.
The minute he pulled his finger out, the hole grew exponential until the dyke broke. In reality, greed is the driving force behind "demand" for goods and services and greed is good up to a certain point but without societal forces to control it, it quickly gets out of hand. That is where we are now. You can thank China for kick starting this fiasco of pricing because of COVID.
The minute he pulled his finger out, the hole grew exponential until the dyke broke. In reality, greed is the driving force behind "demand" for goods and services and greed is good up to a certain point but without societal forces to control it, it quickly gets out of hand. That is where we are now. You can thank China for kick starting this fiasco of pricing because of COVID.
Hello there kindred spirit, I haven't driven in a fast food drive thru in I would guess 20 years or more. Between bad quality small speakers and employees that don't speak decent English I just won't do it. Matter of fact I will seldom even do fast food at all. I'll go in Subway occasionally but really just don't like dealing w/ fast food restaurants at all
And this contributes greatly to my distrust. It's one thing to ask me to tip for drip goddamn coffee. It's a whole other thing if the drones aren't even getting their cut.
We went to the Cracker Barrel (just off I-565 in Madison) for the Friday night fish fry. A few mnutes after we ordered, the waitress came back out and told us they didn't have any fish. This was mid-afternoon, so they still had the evening left to go. Must've been a "supply chain" issue.
That's doesn't surprise me at all. One particular fast food restaurant in Memphis, I went by twice this fall. Both times, during lunch hour, "our computers are down. We can't take orders."
what a convenient.... I mean coincidence.
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There's a time and a place for Cracker barrel, but why on earth would you go there for catfish on a Friday anywhere in the South?
The strange thing with eggs, the generic white eggs were $1 for a long time. But we're fancy & like splurge on our eggs - so I get the brown eggs, egglands best, or whatever. They were always $3-$4.
Today those generic white eggs are $3-$4 but the brown / egglands best eggs are still only ~$4.
Keep in mind though mortgage lenders will only give you credit for reported income which can make it difficult to qualify for a new home.
Brown Eggs are the best marketing ever.
My MIL will only buy/eat brown eggs and will not believe me when I tell her that the color of the shell is dependent on the type of chicken not the quality of it's diet or living conditions.
I've got a pair of customers who have 6-8 side hussles. Zero regular full time gig. They enjoy not being clean, sober, and dressed. They do like filling out all the paperwork for grants, loans, etc for their side ventures. They have little to no customers from what I can tell. I know that doesn't represent everyone not filling a normal position, but I have a suspicion that it's a lot.
Our catfish line that we have right now is filling distributor orders at about a 40% clip at the moment. The company is actually starting to go the robot route in their plant becasue they cannot get people to work. Cracker Barrel wasn't purposely keeping fried fish from you.
A lot of the major catfish lines have been dealing with this for awhile now. It is brutal
I stopped tipping at the register after several experiences of wrong orders, or waiting 20 minutes for simple orders while watching people get served who came in after me. This is why we tipped AFTER a meal for the previous history of tipping... To Insure Promptness.
Some places ask if you’re paying with cash or card. That way you bypass any fees…. I’m totally on board with business passing the card fees along to the customer if they offer a cash option.
As was noted by Horchack above, the typical CC fee is 3-4%, not the 15% you use. the equation is markedly different using the correct data
As is correctly stated by Horshack above, the usual and customary CC charge is 3%-4%. When you use the correct figures, your computations are grossly off track
Whoa, what? I tipped our nearest concession stand guys comparatively liberally late in the season after it became obvious that:
1. Many of their coworkers from the first couple of games had stopped coming
2. They didn't close up shop early like said coworkers did
3. They were competent and borderline friendly
If they're not getting that money, I'll be stopping giving it.
I agree with you, but I'll add a devil's advocate point:
I'm not in the food/hospitality industry, but I am in a consulting industry. The old mantra "the customer is always right" still applies. We treat all clients as if they are royalty because at the end of the day, we want their money, bottom line. Our clients have many options to choose from in the service we provide, but we want them to choose us, and we will do anything within reason to make sure they keep paying us for the service. Why can't that mindset be applied to the food service industry? Like you said, Chicfila does it, and people lap it up. Rude worker at Burger King who can't even record an order right doesn't even have this cross his/her mind. Consumers have many options on where to take their hard earned dollars, so how does that make them entitled just to have the expectation of 1) having a correct order and 2) be treated with gratitude? It goes both ways.
I think you'll see that the highest rated/most successful restaurants are the ones that operate under "the customer is always right".
This obviously doesn't take into account logistical or inventory problems, just simply the hospitality part of the industry.
Didn't say catfish. Just said fish. I believe it's actually haddock. Can't stand catfish - the one time I tried it it tasted like dirt.
He said catfish and what Hatfield said is legit. They can’t find enough people to work in the catfish processing plants.
Sounds like someone didn’t know how to cook catfish. It’s not my favorite but it certainly tastes better than dirt.
Switchgears currently have a 16 month lead time. It's driving our clients crazy on the architectural side between long lead times for things like that (HVAC units are just as insane) and permitting offices taking much much longer than usual vs. pre-Covid. It's to the point that we have to have everything engineered well before the design is finalized in order to get things ordered and shipped to the site on time. Hopefully with China relaxing some of it's Covid rules it starts to get back to normal soon.
The inflation rate doesn’t include food and gas prices. Also only 62% of the workforce is working, but the unemployment rate is low and we had however many thousand new jobs created etc. etc. Smoke and mirrors. The real food inflation rate is probably over 40%.
Unfortunately I’ve simply quit eating out. Nobody’s fault, I get why prices are up, but I’ve been priced out. Personal choice.
For real. RocketDawg should have driven the extra ten minutes to Old Greenbrier for Catfish and Hush puppies.
Not really going to argue over "computations" I made the point that many places of businesses are no longer absorbing the cost of swiping anymore.
Why are you all about funding the government?
And if a food service person is “low income” they aren’t gonna get taxed a whole lot anyways whether they report tips or not.
Looking at CPI at 7-8% and then thinking everything is only going to be up that amount just isn't how it works unfortunately.
I realize we need funding for government in order to maintain a saffe and civil society but despite their low federal income taxes due to being on the lower end of the income scale, they still save money from SSI taxes and other payroll taxes.
At the last home game, the workers told us we didn’t need to tip because they didn’t get it. I was pretty pissed tbh. I’d tipped constantly at every sporting event, I’m done now though.
Credit card fees have gotten ridiculous for businesses. All the rewards are being funded by the fees that businesses pay. Every business is recouping that money, most just hide it in higher prices. No government agency will take a card without adding fees, so in my opinion all private businesses should do the same.
Which is how it is just about anywhere else in the civilized world. Go to Europe, Japan, etc. and the food service industry is like any other corporation. You make a living wage (even starting out), have insurance / benefits, etc. You can climb the ladder and manage your restaurant (or another) And none of that affects the prices of the food, as it is mostly the same as it is here.
The US and the West in general has turned the food service industry into a cut throat race to the bottom as to how you can provide the lowest cost, overprocessed food possible with the cheapest possible labor in order to cater to a “convenience eating” model. Its turned the food service industry into a dead end career path for all except for a select few. Premiums are now placed on things like high table turnover (even at nicer sit-down restaurants), minimal customer interaction, etc. Its all directly proportional to how much big corporations have penetrated into the food service culture in the US compared to elsewhere.
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