Shortly before opening, Casa Bonita’s new owners Matt Stone and Trey Parker decided to eliminate tipping and instead pay workers a flat wage of $30 per hour.
Now I could be wrong, but getting a an hourly wage as a restaurant worker is FAR better than relying on tips. I feel like either workers in this situation are too obsessed with tips or there’s huge context missing.
Tips work out to more than $30/hr huh. Wonder if they were split with back of house or not?
Edit: Also the solution to the question of individual people getting less hours is to just make it a salaried position that pays out a fixed amount per month, so that everyone on average ends up working the same amount of dinner rushes/slow shifts etc.
I think we all know the answer to this question.
Tips split with BOH absolutely would not average out over $30/hour for FOH in my opinion but I am only familiar with my state’s restaurant economy, not Colorado’s. Everybody having the same (better than average in this case) wage just makes it all the more easier to collectively bargain for a better one. At the very least, the restaurant industry needs “experiments” like this. I do think it’s a net positive for workers in the long game on the condition that this level of openness to change continues. Foundational changes like this set the precedent that you can make foundational changes like this.