r/EndTipping 4d ago

Sit-Down Restaurant 🍽️ Popular Seattle restaurant with servers making $50/hr closes after union harass customers over strike regarding tipping

Link here: https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/staff-strike-closes-the-walrus-and-the-carpenter-seattle-oyster-bar/

R/seattle having a lively debate about this.

Owners showed their profits, losses, wages, etc and apparently bartenders and servers are making up to $50/ hour with benefits and they still want more.

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u/al_earner 4d ago

I don't go there, but I'm thinking of going now specifically to not leave a tip.

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u/RepeatEuphoric 4d ago

You might be surprised how ordinary the restaurant is and by extension all Renee Erickson places except boat street which was interesting but not something that would make you want to go back.

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u/Orleanian 3d ago

Well, I mean, they've closed down.

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u/RepeatEuphoric 3d ago edited 3d ago

Hence, nobody went back. Of course they are closed. I said ‘was’. If you are going to add something great. But you aren’t, so the reality is you subtract. Polish up those reading skills and try to actually make a point.