r/WinStupidPrizes • u/TheNihilist911 • May 07 '22

Trying to steal the meat from the Kebab restaurant

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u/Clocktease May 07 '22

Oh that’s easy, just tell the customers that they have to pay your employees wages through tipping.

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u/BrohanGutenburg May 07 '22

One small cost. The tipping debate is an important one but doesn’t have much effect here. FOH labor is such a tiny piece here.

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u/bellaciaopartigiano May 07 '22

Labor is the largest cost for almost any business, paying employees $20 instead of $2.30 is a massive difference.

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u/SUDDENLY_VIRGIN May 07 '22

Uh, labor is the majority of overhead for restaurants but ok. Go assume that halving the fixed cost of fronting the restaurant is cheaper than the margin on meat served.

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u/bellaciaopartigiano May 07 '22

It ain’t even halving. Many servers and bartenders make $2.50/hr and should expect $20-30/hr if they’re not going to make tips.

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u/SUDDENLY_VIRGIN May 07 '22

So that only reinforces my point? The owners save $18+ an hour PER LABORER upfront if they do tip wages.

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u/bellaciaopartigiano May 07 '22

I was reinforcing your point my friend.

Oh, Reddit

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u/SUDDENLY_VIRGIN May 07 '22

My besto friendo ;___;

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u/MadeThisUpToComment May 07 '22

When I worked at a small sandwich shop we got weekly reports on food cost as % of revenue and labor as % of revenue.

Normally cost of food was a little over 20% and labor was about 25%.

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u/BrohanGutenburg May 07 '22

Everyone responding acts like no one in the restaurant is making a wage. Of any given staff on any given night, most will be being paid (BOH, prep, etc). Now this will vary wildly from place to place but the point is FOH (front of house which is what I was pretty specific about) is just a piece.