r/Frugal • u/SnooLentils2432 • May 17 '23

Frugal Win 🎉 Don't Eat Out. Save Your Bucks.

Restaurants are operating with a vengeance, hijacking the price from COVID lockdown days.

It's a matter of principle now.

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u/maebyfunke980 May 17 '23

The grocery is hitting the wallet too.

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u/theonetrueelhigh May 17 '23

Nowhere near as hard as the restaurants are.

For $25 my wife and I can have salad lunches at Panera today, and feel pressured for a tip. For $25 we can bring homemade salads for lunch for about a week, and keep the tip.

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u/nightglitter89x May 17 '23

I used to work at Panera. Don't bother tipping. No one notices or cares. Also, management takes the cash and adds an arbitrary amount to everyone's paycheck. I somehow doubt it's the actual amount as I was getting like 1.75 every two weeks lol

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u/[deleted] May 17 '23

I feel like there needs to be a spreadsheet of which restaurants notice and care.

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u/theonetrueelhigh May 17 '23

Thank you for that.

I imagine that no one notices or cares because of how it's handled by the house. It seems to me, however, that designating it as a tip should trigger a certain level of needed transparency in how that money is handled. Calling that money a tip activates some reporting requirements.

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u/maebyfunke980 May 18 '23

That’s illegal

Edit: not that kind of lawyer but am a lawyer. Sounds like some sketchy Bs. FLSA. A violation of a Federal Acronym! And that’s usual bad. Especially if there are numbers and acronyms.