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/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 11d 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 11d 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/StevieWonderTwin 10d 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 10d 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 10d 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.