Posted on Apr 7, 2022
Restaurants Are Now Adding ‘Equity’ Charges to Customers’ Checks to Fight Oppression | Jon...
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https://fee.org/articles/restaurants-are-now-adding-equity-charges-to-customers-checks-to-fight-oppression/
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“In the wake of racial injustice protests and the closures due to Covid, now is the time for Broders’ to reimagine its economics and provide fair pay across the company,” the statement reads. “Our Benefits & Equity Charge is applied entirely to employee compensation. This supplement helps us to set a $16 minimum hourly wage for customer facing employees, $18 minimum hourly wage for kitchen employees… Altogether this allows everyone in our company to earn a real living wage. The 15% Benefits & Equity Charge is not a gratuity.”
So what's your view of this...? The article takes about 4 min to read...
“In the wake of racial injustice protests and the closures due to Covid, now is the time for Broders’ to reimagine its economics and provide fair pay across the company,” the statement reads. “Our Benefits & Equity Charge is applied entirely to employee compensation. This supplement helps us to set a $16 minimum hourly wage for customer facing employees, $18 minimum hourly wage for kitchen employees… Altogether this allows everyone in our company to earn a real living wage. The 15% Benefits & Equity Charge is not a gratuity.”
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Lt Col Charlie Brown I don't see this going over good. Personally I would be eating at home more. We might go out once every two weeks as it is now. With this it would go down to maybe once a month.
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I think they are going to regret this decision. I would quit frequenting that Restaurant or any other that imposes a charge. More importantly, if my wife and I get good service we usually tip between 20 and 25 percent, in cash, so servers would actually loose out if they provide good service.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
That restaurant would be off my list. We do our best to go to local restaurants (not chain ones) especially since the lockdown but this would put them on my "forget about it" list.
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If a restaurant charges me a 15% equity charge, my tip will no longer start at 20%, it will now start at 5%.
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