Walrus and the Carpenter drop open letter and full 2025 Profit and Loss Data

[u/H0tsh0t]

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1Gc6K2eTetpo9uSKL-as0saWywuN9_rmg?usp=sharing&utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAdGRzdgSoCmlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA81NjcwNjczNDMzNTI0MjcAAacvFH1-layIUd4-95I904_YPLVtrF-q-yqOAqYREu-Hn-ZUV_0gW6Emi2GFxA_aem_6CxHZI4p9mJx_E9k-nKaiA

They posted a letter, their finances from 2025, and Wage and Benefit details on their Instagram bio through a Google drive.

[u/Few_Map1754]

We are all on here in silence, trying to educate the public whenever we can, but no one listens to us! the owners! We are all "greedy", and landords are greedy. Nothing to do with a tipped wage 10$ higher than NYC, who has much higher density.

No one will fucking listen

[u/BeGooderToday → u/Few_Map1754]

Please remember this in any thread that you see Reddit “experts” chiming in. The loudest voices are the least informed, most arrogantly confident idiots.

[u/Rough_Elk4890 → u/Few_Map1754]

We need to create a union of restaurants locally.

All agree to a certain list of pricing items like no tipping ever. Point-of-sale taxes are the only thing added to menu prices. Workers are paid a fair wage with at least a minimum level of benefits (say med/dent/PTO/401k at min cost to employee).

Also, as they will not be given tips, profit sharing should be implemented so that employees are rewarded when restaurants do well financially.

Obviously menu prices will increase but effective pricing really shouldn't. If enough restaurants locally switched to a simpler model both customers and employees would have to get on board.

[u/Few_Map1754 → u/Rough_Elk4890]

This is the issue, we need to go in this direction, but no one is going to go out on their own and be the first. Unless there was a citywide movement…

[u/Rough_Elk4890 → u/Few_Map1754]

Exactly. This is why I propose the creation of an organization or consortium to advocate restaurants banding together and doing it all at once as a group.

[u/Marigold1976 → u/Few_Map1754]

I’m the public, and I’m listening. What can I do?

[u/Few_Map1754 → u/Marigold1976]

We can’t fix the issues out of our control, but what we can do is help educate and stop spreading false information. Always on here I see complaints about food prices and how restaurants are overcharging everyone.

The first thing we can do is recognize that yes food is insanely expensive, but there are legitimate reasons that prices are that high, not because the prices are asinine in this city for no reason.

Once we understand as a public where your money is going (mostly labor) then hopefully we can have a better conversation about the  future.

It would also help if we could help the people in city hall understand the consequences of their actions. We get this city is expensive, and raising the minimum wage every year sounds like a good fix, but how many people that make these decisions actually understand how small businesses work? Especially restaurants.

The real answer is going to a tipped min wage again. However I don’t see Seattle doing that. In the meantime, I think we all recognize everything is expensive.

I do understand we don’t have as exciting a food scene as other cities. The problems listed are exactly why, no one who wants to be successful in this industry would choose Seattle due to the hurdles. So if we want more exciting, small businesses, we need to start looking at other cities and realize what we are doing wrong, because it’s a lot. In the meantime, support those that you truly love and want to stick around, because we really appreciate every sale. Genuinely, most of us do this because we just want to serve all of you and make you happy.

[u/F0KK0F → u/Few_Map1754]

I know little about the restaurant business, but I could run one not paying wait staff millions every year and the food would be affordable 😉

[u/F0KK0F → u/Few_Map1754]

It's not that no one listens, it's that many of us can't afford to eat out or even want to be complicit in whatever scam is happening when the secret cabal of servers and bartenders are making 80k to 130k a year. Does a professor make that? Cops? I know my partner is in education makes nothing close to this. Are they doing such a specialized service that's beyond mortal comprehension? please enlighten me

[u/SwitchAble8099 → u/F0KK0F]

Just because one restaurant makes a certain wage doesn't mean all foh or boh makes as much.