TightwadsThere's saving money, and there's being tight: saving money at the expense of other people, or simply for the miserly hell of it.
Tell us about measures that go beyond simple belt tightening into the realms of Mr Scrooge.
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chthonic, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:58)
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."If restraunts raised the pay and cut out tipping, they would also have to raise their prices significantly and therefore lose business"
(Lower price + tip) == (higher price + no tip), no?
(, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 17:39, 1 reply)
It's perceptionYou'd also need a big neon sign, and posters everywhere saying "Don't tip, we pay our staff a decent wage", and even then, I doubt it would help, as the punter is unlikely to do the required arithmetic to turn your radical pricing structure into one he can compare with other restaurants.
Customers just compare listed prices, so if a $10.00 item ends up costing $11.50 because of tipping or taxes or whatever other extras get added on after the fact, they still only perceive it as $10.00 for the purpose of comparison, so it still looks cheaper than $11.50.
(, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 15:02, closed)
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