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raincole 54 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why some US restaurants are banning tips

> The owner wants the maximum ratio of servers to customers possible.

Why? It sounds very weird. In every kind of business the owner has strong incentive to cut labor.

unixhero 54 days ago [–]

Not if they are (hardly) paid anything. Then pile on staff!

sgerenser 54 days ago | [–]

Turnover in the restaurant industry is brutal. An always overstaffed restaurant where the waitstaff ends up not earning much in tips will quickly lose staff to competitors (at least the good ones).

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