You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquette of iPad Tipping

Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by derefr on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:47PM (#18244122)

The restaurant doesn't still make money—the under-tipped employees quit to seek better employment, and at the going wage the employer is offering, there is no further demand for that job to replace the employees who have quit. So fewer employees have to take on the slack of "doing more", and thus each one ends up making roughly as much in tips as before (at equilibrium, if they manage to take up that slack); or they don't manage to take up the slack, demand isn't matched to supply, and the business's total revenue decreases.

The market is efficient... eventually.

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Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by asdff on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:47PM (#18245760)

>The restaurant doesn't still make money—the under-tipped employees quit to seek better employment, and at the going wage the employer is offering, there is no further demand for that job to replace the employees who have quit.

Is this not true with every company in every industry? Pay is a major reason why people leave a job for another. If an employer is struggling to find labor at a low ball price, they will raise their offer.

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Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by MauranKilom on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:57PM (#18244226)

> at the going wage the employer is offering, there is no further demand for that job to replace the employees who have quit

That assertion comes out of nowhere...

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