Restaurants are figuring out how to do without servers

Re:Restaurants are figuring out how to do without servers by Kalium on Monday June 25, 2018 @07:46PM (#17396825)

If 50%-200% becomes The New Normal and what was be a $8 sandwich becomes a $30 meal (taxes, tip, Healthy SF)... then I'm afraid I'm just not going to eat out at all.

That'll help a struggling service industry worker make ends meet, right?

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Realistically, odds are our hypothetical service industry worker isn't paying a market rate for a studio in the Mission. It's much more likely they're rooming with others in some fashion, and their monthly rent is at most half of $3600. And likely doing the traditional thing and under-reporting cash tip income by a non-trivial margin.

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Re:Restaurants are figuring out how to do without servers by intended on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @12:36AM (#17397887)

The point is that the rational worker would have left anyway - anything below the lower level to fund existence means it’s already a losing job.

You pay higher to have waiters in the first place.

Essentially, the story of SF is the story of no high density housing.

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