Originally Posted by htismaqe (Post 9076795)

You disagree?

Obviously, if you're informed about such things, you can get GOOD food at the store.

You can also get GOOD food at a restaurant.

So making a blanket statement about people being fat is misguided, no matter how you look at it.

Originally Posted by htismaqe (Post 9076634)

Precisely.

Don't pay a tip, that's fine, it's a free country.

But don't bitch when your $8 taco plate is $15 the next time you eat there.

Originally Posted by Saulbadguy (Post 9076860)

CHEAP restaurants push huge portion sizes.

Originally Posted by OmahaChief (Post 9076870)

That $8 taco plate I just bought had a actual food cost of $1 and that pop I ordered that cost $3 actual cost was about 10 cents. There is plenty of margin to make your normal overhead and still pay the waitstaff more without raising prices.

Originally Posted by htismaqe (Post 9076897)

Ah, I see your point now. I said "cost-effective", you said "cheap" - that was the disconnect.

I actually agree with you now that I understand what you are saying.

Originally Posted by phisherman (Post 9076605)

I love how noone wants to put any blame on the restaurant owners that are shafting their employees by not even paying a living wage.

The customers subsidize the difference.

Boo hoo, I was a server/bartender in college and for a short time afterwards and even though it burnt me to get a bad tip, I still never felt right blaming a customer for not giving me extra money that they didn't have to give.

Besides, the attitude of most servers these days is that they deserve a high tip all the time, simply for doing their job. Nope, sorry charlie.

Originally Posted by Saulbadguy (Post 9076903)

Yeah, whoops.

Cheap restaurants are plentiful here.

I don't think anyone would shed a tear (other than fat hicks) if Applebees, Olive Garden, etc are forced to shut down because they had to pay higher wages.

Originally Posted by HMc (Post 9076909)

good thing that restaurants don't have to pay rent, power, water, insurance, maintenance, cleaning, licensing, etc.

otherwise they might eat into that 7 dollars of pure profit on a 10 dollar meal that you refer to

Originally Posted by HMc (Post 9076909)

good thing that restaurants don't have to pay rent, power, water, insurance, maintenance, cleaning, licensing, etc.

otherwise they might eat into that 7 dollars of pure profit on a 10 dollar meal that you refer to

Originally Posted by htismaqe (Post 9076924)

I tend to patronize the family-owned restaurants myself (we have REALLY great Mexican food here).

Originally Posted by R8ers (Post 9076938)

No one is forcing you to work for that bastard.... Quit

Originally Posted by eazyb81 (Post 9076949)

Are you drunk? He said he used to be a waiter you idiot.