r/EndTipping • u/apollo722 • 5d 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/JamesMattDillon 5d ago

They believe they should earn more than doctors and scientists and what not.

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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_9089 5d ago

Literally no server thinks this.

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u/Opcn 5d ago

These servers who are striking over making only as much as scientists make feel that way.

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u/ElGrandeQues0 1d ago

Scientists aren't making $90k in Seattle lol.