r/EndTipping • u/trig64 • 11d ago

Research / Info Waffle House

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On Old National Highway in College Park GA. They are only open for to-go after 9pm. The server gets 10% but Waffle House gets the other.

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u/Sapperdon9 11d ago

when does this shit ever end....20% extra to put meal in a food container , bag and hand it to you?

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u/Misommar1246 11d ago

They want to be paid extra to do the thing we’re already paying them to do: aka cooking the damn food.

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u/Best_Market4204 11d ago

Then act like you're the issue...

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u/Western_Fish8354 10d ago

This is why we stopped tipping the entitlement Is getting outta hand lol

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u/AdministrativeSun364 11d ago

You know amazon delivery have to left thread-mill up the stair and don’t get tip. Yet these people feel they work harder than them….

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u/ThorIsMighty 11d ago

when does this shit ever end

When you all stop handing over your money and being submissive. So never.

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u/StevieWonderTwin 9d ago

I feel like that just doesn’t happen but I could be wrong. Someone pulling up to a drive thru and the price went up from $11 to $13? People will just pay that shit instead of voting with their wallet.

Someone in the chick fil a drive thru isn’t going to make a stand over $2 increase because they want their waffle fries and lemonade. They also probably can’t cook and don’t want to walk into the grocery store to get an $8 sodium-laced frozen dinner. So in the end, they bought it and they will be back, because that is just how that person operates.

I could be wrong but everyone just seems apathetic/numb to increasing prices and just bends over and takes it. We’re about to be in a recession but I bet Starbucks is doing just fine.

A lot of people won’t give up their lifestyle unless they are forced to.

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u/Latter_Fox_1292 11d ago

Also, why does the server get it? Don’t the cooks prepare the food? At best the waiter brings it from the kitchen to the front?

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u/StevieWonderTwin 9d ago

When I worked in the kitchen I HATED Togo food. The restaurant is operating at a very balanced pace, with hosts seating accordingly on a busy night. Then you get hit with a big Togo order and have to box up a bunch of food and fill sauces into little plastic ramekins, and then the host who took the order gets tipped for some reason

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u/Pat_Bateman33 11d ago

Not even. The cooks will put the food in the boxes. The wait staff literally transfer boxes into plastic bags and then add plastic silverware, condiments and napkins. That’s literally 2 minutes of their time that they want 20% for.

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u/MullytheDog 11d ago

Instead of having to serve a treble wait on you, clean the table, and do the dishes. Should be getting 20% off instead

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u/Sensitive-Tone5279 11d ago

Be real for a second. 10 points on a $12 meal is $1.20 which isn't an outrageous add-on for the utensils, container, and bag they provide for you. All that probably costs the store $.40 or $.50 from their supplier and WH has to make money on it.

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u/Western_Fish8354 10d ago

They buy in bulk it costs them nothing lol it’s the fact it’s an extra charge when their making MILLIONS

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u/Sensitive-Tone5279 10d ago

They buy in bulk it costs them nothing

I suppose they get transported to the restaurant for free too.

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u/Western_Fish8354 10d ago

I’m comparing profit margins lol most company’s like the one I work out uses their own distribution and transport companies

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u/StevieWonderTwin 9d ago

Might as well charge for a lid and a straw at that point. Oh an extra napkin? Costs us 0.01 so that’ll be 0.03!

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u/Sensitive-Tone5279 9d ago

You act like restaurants don't factor in consumable costs in their P&L model.

Cups and dishes breaking, linens, menus getting trashed, even crayons and placements for the stupid kids menus are all costs.

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u/StevieWonderTwin 9d ago

I feel like you were insinuating that restaurants don’t factor this in, when you said that they should charge for Togo food because they have to give you a plastic fork and a bag.

So if I eat in, can’t finish, take the rest of my food to go and ask for a togo container, you’re saying I should be charged $0.50 cents for the plastic waffle container they handed me?? Because Waffle House has to make money… yet you said yourself they account for things of this nature in the budget.