Restaurants Are Adding Equity Charges to Customers Checks to Fight Oppression

Re:Restaurants Are Adding Equity Charges to Customers Checks... by ta2162 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @08:20PM (#27625630)

This is fantastic honestly. Now we join the legion of nations that don't have a tipping culture because SJWs have now declared tipping "racist". That's a win in my book.

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Re:Restaurants Are Adding Equity Charges to Customers Checks... by procombo on Thursday June 24, 2021 @09:02PM (#27625933)

Well, they were intentional with their use of the word "equity", not "equality".

Looking it up in my favorite search engine I think they are implying they will be giving shorter servers a higher percentage of the collected fees.

As a short person this makes me happy.

But it's a "short"-term win for us shorties, cause as all the tall people are slowly forced out of their service-level jobs they'll be that much more motivated to find better opportunities elsewhere.

Then as more short people wait tables we will be taking less and less of the overall "equity" fee. In the same spot as before, but at an even greater disadvantage. It's a ruse.

There is no shortcut to equality --just start and end there.

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Re:Restaurants Are Adding Equity Charges to Customers Checks... by inimino on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:46PM (#27626631)

If you read the article, it is not a gratuity. You are still expected to tip.

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Re:Restaurants Are Adding Equity Charges to Customers Checks... by ta2162 on Friday June 25, 2021 @03:21PM (#27635123)

I read the article, and they're claiming it's not gratuity, but it's de facto gratuity. The reason they're claiming it's not gratuity is because automatic gratuity is prohibited by Minnesota law.

Much like Obamacare "it's a fee, not a tax", but then the Supreme Court decided that it's actually a tax, so the individual mandate could be repealed like a tax. Just because they claimed it doesn't mean it's reality.

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