• mabeledo@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    In any case the second you guys leave that goes back to normal, you’ve “fixed” nothing.

    If you guys decide to go back to your savage ways, sure.

    The service industry is dying in the US anyway. It’s pretty much all chains serving the same frozen food bought from a handful of suppliers. Americans eat out less than ever, and it’s not only because tipping, although you lot sure love to complain about it while doing nothing to fix it.

    So if you would like to continue to alienate the few captive customers that the country still has, i.e. tourists, please, by all means, do it.

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      The worker decides nothing. They quit and the boss hires another ex convict with a drug problem, if they get lucky they’ll break out but more likely the quitter will end up at another restaurant hoping there’s no Europeans. Your idealism is commendable, but naïve.

      Though you’re not entirely wrong, covid killed off a lot of small restaurants who couldn’t afford to stay open and were pretty much the last bastion of “local businesses” in the country. Pretty sad imo, I’ve long been a “shop local” proponent myself. Though you should be happy about that because those chains mostly offer “a living wage” (debatable, especially in this economy, but they don’t rely on tips). So there you go, go eat there instead of the relatively few local spots that did survive but rely on tips, why do you have to go to the tipping spots if you’re so against them? Have a backbone and sacrifice for your ideals.

      Yes, by all means, stay out of the place if you can’t respect how it works and have to shit on the poor worker to feel morally superior, like an absolute smeghead.

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        Yes, by all means, stay out of the place if you can’t respect how it works and have to shit on the poor worker to feel morally superior, like an absolute smeghead.

        No worries about this, I will.

        I hope one day you understand that your arguments could be used to justify any kind of ongoing labor abuse. But anyway, when the industry finally dies in the US, I won’t be sad about it.