Shortly before opening, Casa Bonita’s new owners Matt Stone and Trey Parker decided to eliminate tipping and instead pay workers a flat wage of $30 per hour.
Now I could be wrong, but getting a an hourly wage as a restaurant worker is FAR better than relying on tips. I feel like either workers in this situation are too obsessed with tips or there’s huge context missing.
I agree that servers shouldn’t be making less with an empty house. The way they handle that now is by doing shift change before the rush and making cuts to keep the staff at the right size as the night goes on.
There are problems with that approach but it lets the servers figure out how to handle everything. The only requirement ought to be tip pooling and cutting in back of house in some small way.
Idk how you run a restaurant with hourly floor staff instead of tipped.