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Football us life said:
Tipping seems to be the latest scam err I mean trend in hospitality....

Australia has never really had a tipping culture. The system here was deliberately built so that diners didn’t have to subsidise staff wages at the register. That’s what Australia's high minimum awards are for.

The way it’s being forced on us now is as fucken sneaky as it gets!

You go to pay for a takeaway coffee– a transaction that took 30 seconds – and the staff member hands you the EFTPOS terminal. Before you can even tap your card, the screen prompts you with:

Tip 10%
Tip 15%
Tip 20%
Custom / No Tip

It creates this awkward psychological standoff. The staff member is looking at you, you’re looking at the screen, and you have to actively press "No" just to pay the advertised price for your food. It feels like a emotional tax on just being a customer.

Very cuntish!!
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I'm still not willing to blame the business yet as these tip prompts are built into new softwares. Whether it can be turned off it another thing.

Meanwhile in other countries they're noticing tips are getting smaller with the ease or contactless payments. Not to mention the machine asking to add tip reverses the order of the transaction despite the fact the customer has decided to give a tip. Customer has decided to tip but the machine now asks if you'd like to. How about no, or just 5%.
 
erogenouszone said:
It's like when cash was more prevalent the bar tender putting the change onto a small silver tray and thinking that's going to guilt me into leaving a tip. Good luck with that.
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Oh God. They place it down and you grab the little receipt of it and they're there like a dehydrated dog hoping you say just keep the change and they swipe the tray away.
 
erogenouszone said:
It's like when cash was more prevalent the bar tender putting the change onto a small silver tray and thinking that's going to guilt me into leaving a tip. Good luck with that.
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hahah

was just thinking about that shit time...what a joke that stage was
 
LFC said:
haha thats for bloody sure !
Its staggering the difference as I always experience when travelling compared to our utter rip off country.
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Seriously though things like a 15% weekend surcharge in cafes is arguably the ultimate battleground where Australian economics, workplace laws, and political ideology collide at the breakfast/brunch table. It is uniquely Australian, and looking at it through a broader political lens reveals why it's such a massive powder keg right now......

Progressives view it as the necessary cost of protecting penalty rates and ensuring workers are fairly compensated for sacrificing their weekends.

Conversely, free-market advocates argue these rigid labour laws strangle small businesses and inflate consumer prices. Ultimately, the surcharge exposes a cultural hypocrisy....

Australians fiercely defend worker's rights but balk when the cost lands directly on their breakfast bill....

It is the definition of a catch-22. If you boycott the cafes to protest the prices, your favourite local spots go broke, people lose their jobs, and the vibrant street culture vanishes.

If you keep going, you have to actively choose to let your wallet get absolutely hammered by surcharges, tips, and therefore ~ $40-a-head breakie's!!

Me.– Scramble eggs, 3 chipolata's, beans, tomato, toast and 2 flat white's + 15% weekend surcharge ~ $38

Wifey – Squashed green stuff on toast, corn fritta, juice and a latte + 15% weekend surcharge ~ $36

I chucked the $6 in goldies into the charity bucket thing on the counter!!
 
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mate you hit the chestnuts all there.......
The worst of it all WE have set this path long ago.
I won't go on what I think for I'm sure I will get polarised coming from a small biz owner perspective myself.
You reap what we sew and there you/we are paying so much for a casual simple feed and look at all the add on costs involved as well as for the small cafe owner.
 
LFC said:
mate you hit the chestnuts all there.......
The worst of it all WE have set this path long ago.
I won't go on what I think for I'm sure I will get polarised coming from a small biz owner perspective myself.
You reap what we sew and there you/we are paying so much for a casual simple feed and look at all the add on costs involved as well as for the small cafe owner.
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I'm retired now and weekend brunches are always busy (probably make more more then so the surcharge is not needed). So I go during the week - more relaxing - no rush and no 15% surcharge.
 
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happy retirement patj !
I'm at the the age that I could but I'm not ready yet, doubt I ever will - mind you I can WFH/call my own time and the last 5odd yrs I hit that little ball early .am with football mates and enjoy the no surcharge or crowd Fridays.
Got to say that cafe kulcha is massively popular.
I venture up to your parts regularly hang around near Long Jetty.
Those cafes are packed every weekend as we drive around.
 
Yep my last few years were WFH during Covid and after that. Changed my life and perspective. So when the company decided to move more jobs to India I was quite happy to put my hand up.
 
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LFC said:
mate you hit the chestnuts all there.......
The worst of it all WE have set this path long ago.
I won't go on what I think for I'm sure I will get polarised coming from a small biz owner perspective myself.
You reap what we sew and there you/we are paying so much for a casual simple feed and look at all the add on costs involved as well as for the small cafe owner.
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I just hate that cheap eats are essentially gone. Of course the costs of running a business need to be considered and it has become that much harder over the last decade.

I saw an interesting article about how prices are not at a level for sustainable profit for a business but more about how much people are willing to pay as a maximum and use of conditioning to make people accept it supermarkets were mentioned as the main culprit. Cafes are certainly amongst it. Smaller scale but the prices for basic stuff just isn't fun in my opinion.

Germany used to have plenty of cheap eats but that's now taken the same turn. My mates generally insist on breakfasts for away days but if you can get it compacted into the hotel price then it's reasonably otherwise grabbing a few things on the go is much more affordable than the sitdown meal.

A kebab is 7€. The turkish restaurant has 3 meat skewers and a small salad for 17€. No difference in how much meat is served. It's simply a 10€ surcharge for being on a plate.
 
Thing such as brunches are a lifestyle indicator. Humans and consumers are fascinating beasts. Only the utmost of depressions will deter people from spending relentlessly on luxuries.

Certain sectors have seen a dip in scale such as nightclubs. Than question is when is the brunch dip coming?
 
JS96 said:
Thing such as brunches are a lifestyle indicator. Humans and consumers are fascinating beasts. Only the utmost of depressions will deter people from spending relentlessly on luxuries.

Certain sectors have seen a dip in scale such as nightclubs. Than question is when is the brunch dip coming?
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When my wife says it is. She who must be obeyed
 
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Son of Sam said:
Voting for any right wing party is voting for extermination of the world as we know it.

Voting for left of right parties is voting for the same extermination. Why? Because I believe it is too late for the human species to enact real environmental policies.

We have either already crossed the point of no return, or, say we have got time, we don’t have the will to do anything about it.

Just ask the 99% of climatologists who study this phenomenon.
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What about moderate conservatives that do strongly support climate action? The NSW Liberals pretty much the same as NSW Labor in its climate policy.
 
tsf said:
If she's still getting about in that shit, they why would she want to come here? Surely she was in the perfect spot for that kind of getup and lifestyle?

I'm not going to complain though, the more of these absolute sex pots walking around the streets the better - keep it in your pants fellas!
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I know it’s winter but imagine wearing that in summer lol.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
What about moderate conservatives that do strongly support climate action? The NSW Liberals pretty much the same as NSW Labor in its climate policy.
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You look at these charts where Western nations have flattened or lowered their output. Yeah great. Yet the biggest culprits are still churning out at 10 fold since Germany and the UK sacrificed their energy policy eihcihbhas decimated manufacturing.

The same with these stupid paper straws. An absolute speck compared to what the ultra wealthy are still doing and as if any left wing government would ever be able to rope that in unless it were in the form of a Bolshevist takeover.

Keep calling the people suffering under green policies stupid. That'll stop them choosing the other side. Germany is about to introduce new sugar, alcohol and tabacco taxes as the coffers are empty due to failures in green policies that have stopped the flow of tax revenues through manufacturing and export. The business leaders kept calling it out at conferences and millions of jobs have been lost and not replaced over the past few years. 400k gone in Jan to March alone. Ironically, everyone says they haven't met or know anyone who voted the greens.
 
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