New York Mayor Mamdani announced that "tipping" will be outlawed in New York City because tipping embodies structural racism and gender-norms. Inequities in tipping are micro-aggressions that target wait-staff who do not conform to the dominant culture's expectations.
"In a rich city like New York City, no person should receive less compensation because they chose to wait on fewer tables than their coworkers, ignore customers or choose to costume differently" Mamdani announced.
"In our efforts to make New York City more equitable and fair, we are also criminalized "flirting" as a sub-set of the New York State code for hostile workplace environment. Businesses will be fined $1000 for every time a patron "flirts" with a staff member or a fellow customer or leaves a tip. We are done turning a blind-eye toward businesses that do not conform to NYC values of kindness, diversity, equity and inclusivity."
"Henceforth, a 40% surcharge will be added to every bar and food tab to ensure every waitress makes a living wage and to cover the cost of administering these new rules."
As if there weren't enough reasons to NOT visit that outhouse city.
ReplyDeleteFake news. Plausible, but fake news.
DeleteDestroying a City from within. Nothing like being a Communist.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I welcome the concept of the restaurant owners paying their own employees. Nothing says you cant give something for extraordinary service. You just dont HAVE to.
ReplyDeleteWhen a significant part of the waitress's compensation is "variable" and dictated by the customer, she is working for you. If the variable portion is small and unlikely, she works for the restaurant's management.
DeleteWhen she works for the customer, a waitress with six tables has at least 12 sets of eyes on her. When she works for the restaurant manager, she has a tiny fraction of one set of eyeballs tracking her.
Good waitresses like the "tip" system. Mediocre waitresses do not.
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ReplyDeleteDon't give him any ideas...
ReplyDeleteThe voters of NYC wanted and voted for this insanity. Now they are getting it...good and hard.
ReplyDeleteYears ago on break at work, we were talking about this and that, our maintenance man who at one time served as flight engineer on a coast guard C130 that had a mission that landed them in Scotland for a few days. He was surprised when at the local pub they were informed the people there did not tip, it was expected that people be paid a fair wage by the employer!
ReplyDeleteDid you hold this over from April 1st?
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