at the restaurant i work at, we pool tips, and just cause you aren't eating in doesn't mean us in the kitchen worked any less hard on it. in fact, it's more work for me to do to-go orders, but folks seldom tip on them. it is very frustrating to me. had somebody place a $1200 order a couple weeks back, and even split 5 ways, a 15% tip on that order alone would've made it a good day, but i don't think they tipped a single cent.
Haha, yeah I do it out of fear of restaurant workers and you all should too if you know what's good for you! Like, they literally have time alone with the food you're going to eat!
At 85 dB you'll have hearing damage from long term exposure without hearing protection. Normally considered 8 hours a day 5 days a week. So 2000 hours in a year. Higher sound levels have a lower threshold so shorter times. 120 dB is the threshold of pain, so immediate hearing damage. Also, dB are a 10x log scale. So every 10 dB is an order of magnitude increase. So the siren is actually about 3000x louder than when you should start wearing earpro.
Restaurants that switch away from tips frequently switch back. There was a big push about 10 years ago, and most have closed or switched back.
Customers, as a whole, just see menu prices go up and go someplace else; the customers who actually understand the trade-off are too few for that model to work most of the time. Additionally, the best staff jump ship to restaurants where they can maintain their income.
Fine dining is really the only place you can get away with it regularly. The employers didn't really have a choice if they want to stay open. The system is what it is, every customer who doesn't tip is giving themselves a discount at the expense of the staff which is a reasonable thing to be upset about. The only way to change the system is through regulatory legislation.
retrieve earplugs from purse, put them in, press the button, hand the staff a $5 cash tip and a pair of earplugs.
loiter outside offering pairs of earplugs to anyone entering the business
call the business, pose as a vendor so I get transferred to the manager, and play a recording of the sound.
leave fake reviews claiming the employees are on a covert malicious compliance strike and to show solidarity everyone should push no-tip.
before hitting the button ask to speak to the manager and push no tip while making eye contact with them.
The real problem is the employee who didn't create the policy would generally be the person subjected to any mischief so it'd lose its fun about the time the manager barred me from coming back the fourth time I no-tip stared them down.
Press "no tip" and sue them for hearing damage....
Seriously though, as a non American I only tip when the service or food was exceptionally good for the given establishment. People do however get paid a decent salary here, so tipping is optional.