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Any auto-grat on a bill is an instant big fat 0 on the tip line for me. Fuck double dipping on customers subsidizing shitty wages. It shouldn’t even need to happen once. If the restaurant can’t pay a reasonable wage it shouldn’t be in business.
I would be completely okay with a restaurant charging a bit more for meals if they also had a “do not tip” policy. Wait staff should be expected to do their jobs, the restaurant should be expected to pay their employees. As a customer I should be expected to pay the restaurant, full stop.
This isn't an auto-grat situation though. This is the restaurant increasing their prices by 18%, then blaming it on the staff.
By not tipping, you're just punishing the wait staff for the restaurant's shitty behavior. Better to tip normally, then tell the restaurant you won't be back until they get their heads out of their asses.
It's a service charge. That implies the money is going to the staff. So they are already getting approximately what they would have been tipped.
Now, maybe "service charge" is a lie and they aren't actually seeing that money. But if so, then the waitstaff are complicit in that lie, because they handed it to me. And if I'm supposed to assume they are lying then I'm certainly not tipping them.
It sort of is going to them, but not entirely. The restaurant is called Jon and Vinney's. I linked to an article somewhere else in this post about them. The restaurant has explained that they do it because the minimum wage in Los Angeles is $16.04. Basically, as a way to be dicks about it, they decided to add the surcharge to the bill to point out very specifically to their customers how much more they have to pay so they can afford to pay their staff $16.04 / hr.
In their minds, they probably feel like they are villifying the government of CA, but, as you've noted, most people just confuse it as "auto-gratuity" and then stiff the wait staff out of extra money they would have otherwise gotten.
I wouldn't go back, but your anger is towards management not the worker. I'd still tip in this situation.
This isn't an auto grat tho? This is them saying "You pay more so our employees get better pay, you pay exactly this much more for this effect". Instead of them just cranking up prices like normal.
Y'all are bitching and moaning about a restaurant being honest instead of just fucking charging more.
This isn't an auto-grat. The receipt explicitly says "This is not a tip or gratuity" and has a recommended tip line. This restaurant is either double-dipping to pay their employees less or scamming their customers.
If it's not an auto-grat why not just raise the prices on the menu 18 percent instead of surprising customers at checkout. Setting prices to cover your business and staff is an important part of running any business. The way they're doing it is intentianally deceptive. Even down to saying that this is so that they can pay staff instead of just advertising the actual prices in the menu.