$$$$$ and ridiculous tipping expectations and living wage fees added to the bill.
For me, the quality of food doesn’t match what I want to spend for it. There’s rarely been a time since 2020 where I haven’t thought I could make the meal better myself.
Maybe all the cooking channels on tv over the years taught people to cook at home just as well as restaurant chefs, in addition to taking out a second mortgage for a christmas dinner rib roast.
Lack of service. Restaurant cheaps out so there are not enough people. Was at Texas Roadhouse (1st mistake) and there was a 20 minute wait to be seated in a restaurant that was about 2/3 full. Couldn’t get drinks because server had to wait for cups to be washed. Food took 1/2 hour, etc. “let’s ask for check, dessert, refill, to go box at once because we will never see her again”
I rather have friends and family over and make a meal than get ripped off with : Plus tax + Plus Tip bullshit.
Enough!!!
Gas, parking, 70 dollar bill without tip. Could just eat at home for less than 10.
Did this really require an article at all?
We still do carryout fairly regularly but I don’t bother dining in anymore. Over the past decade or so quality of service has been steadily on the decline and basically has hit rock bottom in my experience since covid. I would go to a restaurant, wait 20 min past my reservation to get seated, maybe see my server 4 times throughout the meal, and then wait forever for my bill while I chew the ice in my water glass that has been empty for the past half hour. And then they expect a 20%+ tip on top of it?
Yeah, no. I’m done utilizing any services that require tipping aside from my barber. I’ve been happily driving to pick up my orders for a couple years now even though many places will still shove a tip screen in front of your face when you get there. But I refuse to tip for having my food held hostage so they can beg for more money just to hand me a bag. I’d go back in the kitchen and bag the food myself too if they’d let me.
It’s because your sister said she was more comfortable eating out at home on the bed
Quality = Down
Service = Worse
Cost = Up
“Hidden Charges” = Increasing
Tipping Culture = Tiring
For me it’s tipping. Prices can go up, but I’m honestly so over the toxic ass tip culture here.
Owner here.
Shits expensive. Its not just the food. Togo containers have doubled in price,
Mayo and dressing have doubled in price. that little side of sour cream with your potato? cost me 50c. before pandemic 10c. at least the potato is still ‘cheap’ at 50c. so when yo7 ask for that 2nd side of sour it cost the same as if i gave you an extra potato, which again, adds up.
In the last 5 years min wage for my servers has done up almost 25%. Im all for this tho, living wage and all, i want my staff not to struggle.
Its also harder to find staff that care. ive o ly been in biz for 5 years i might be biased with my perspective there. I dont know why this is. I dont buy in to the ‘nobody want to work anymore people are lazy’ crowd. I dunno why its harder to find peops now, maybe thats just me.
Before you jump down my throat please know im not complaining, just explaining. Everyone but the big corp restaurant is just hanging on for dear life rn, and hoping it gets better.
I felt like i was gunna drown when i finally raised prices. I had sticker shock figuring out the math of what I HAD to charge to stay in biz. I dotn want to sell a $15 basic burger..but when you add up the cost thats the only way to stay in biz. If someone knows how to run pricing thats less than the current structure im all ears.
Im gratefull every day for people that will still come out and pay my prices. To be honest I probably wouldnt eat out much anymore even if i had the time..its just crazy expensive to drop 20+ a MEAL per day, thats like 1800? a month if you eat out all the time? daaammm
So i try like crazy to give the BEST service. if i cant afford the labor Im at the table taking your order, and cooking your food, and saying thank you foe your patronage when you leave, cause i really am grateful.
thanks for coming to my ted talk lol
Spend a fortune on a less than average, unhygienically prepared meal makes no sense.
Quality of food has gone down and give you less and went up like 30% and now everyone expects you to pay their hourly wage when corporations rather not pay people a living wage all the while increasing their ceo and investors salaries and stocks
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$$$$$ and ridiculous tipping expectations and living wage fees added to the bill.
For me, the quality of food doesn’t match what I want to spend for it. There’s rarely been a time since 2020 where I haven’t thought I could make the meal better myself.
Maybe all the cooking channels on tv over the years taught people to cook at home just as well as restaurant chefs, in addition to taking out a second mortgage for a christmas dinner rib roast.
Lack of service. Restaurant cheaps out so there are not enough people. Was at Texas Roadhouse (1st mistake) and there was a 20 minute wait to be seated in a restaurant that was about 2/3 full. Couldn’t get drinks because server had to wait for cups to be washed. Food took 1/2 hour, etc. “let’s ask for check, dessert, refill, to go box at once because we will never see her again”
I rather have friends and family over and make a meal than get ripped off with : Plus tax + Plus Tip bullshit.
Enough!!!
Gas, parking, 70 dollar bill without tip. Could just eat at home for less than 10.
Did this really require an article at all?
We still do carryout fairly regularly but I don’t bother dining in anymore. Over the past decade or so quality of service has been steadily on the decline and basically has hit rock bottom in my experience since covid. I would go to a restaurant, wait 20 min past my reservation to get seated, maybe see my server 4 times throughout the meal, and then wait forever for my bill while I chew the ice in my water glass that has been empty for the past half hour. And then they expect a 20%+ tip on top of it?
Yeah, no. I’m done utilizing any services that require tipping aside from my barber. I’ve been happily driving to pick up my orders for a couple years now even though many places will still shove a tip screen in front of your face when you get there. But I refuse to tip for having my food held hostage so they can beg for more money just to hand me a bag. I’d go back in the kitchen and bag the food myself too if they’d let me.
It’s because your sister said she was more comfortable eating out at home on the bed
Quality = Down
Service = Worse
Cost = Up
“Hidden Charges” = Increasing
Tipping Culture = Tiring
For me it’s tipping. Prices can go up, but I’m honestly so over the toxic ass tip culture here.
Owner here.
Shits expensive. Its not just the food. Togo containers have doubled in price,
Mayo and dressing have doubled in price. that little side of sour cream with your potato? cost me 50c. before pandemic 10c. at least the potato is still ‘cheap’ at 50c. so when yo7 ask for that 2nd side of sour it cost the same as if i gave you an extra potato, which again, adds up.
In the last 5 years min wage for my servers has done up almost 25%. Im all for this tho, living wage and all, i want my staff not to struggle.
Its also harder to find staff that care. ive o ly been in biz for 5 years i might be biased with my perspective there. I dont know why this is. I dont buy in to the ‘nobody want to work anymore people are lazy’ crowd. I dunno why its harder to find peops now, maybe thats just me.
Before you jump down my throat please know im not complaining, just explaining. Everyone but the big corp restaurant is just hanging on for dear life rn, and hoping it gets better.
I felt like i was gunna drown when i finally raised prices. I had sticker shock figuring out the math of what I HAD to charge to stay in biz. I dotn want to sell a $15 basic burger..but when you add up the cost thats the only way to stay in biz. If someone knows how to run pricing thats less than the current structure im all ears.
Im gratefull every day for people that will still come out and pay my prices. To be honest I probably wouldnt eat out much anymore even if i had the time..its just crazy expensive to drop 20+ a MEAL per day, thats like 1800? a month if you eat out all the time? daaammm
So i try like crazy to give the BEST service. if i cant afford the labor Im at the table taking your order, and cooking your food, and saying thank you foe your patronage when you leave, cause i really am grateful.
thanks for coming to my ted talk lol
Spend a fortune on a less than average, unhygienically prepared meal makes no sense.
Quality of food has gone down and give you less and went up like 30% and now everyone expects you to pay their hourly wage when corporations rather not pay people a living wage all the while increasing their ceo and investors salaries and stocks