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Do I just have bad luck or has the quality of experience at restaurants become a crap shoot in the last few months? It's like half the people with any sense of professionalism and hospitality bailed and were replaced by people who hate their jobs but hate customers more.

Service is worse
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ecurrencyhodler

@ecurrencyhodler

Sep 28, 2021

Have a friend who owns a restaurant. It is REALLY hard to find good help post-pandemic. People feel entitled or just do the bare minimum. Doesn’t get a lot of candidates either because people would rather stay at home and collect a stimulus check or have fears around covi19.

Jesse Powell

@jespow

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@ecurrencyhodler

Good intel. I wouldn’t want to be masked up for 8hrs straight either. As long as stimmies keep coming, it’s probably going to take much higher min guaranteed comp to entice people back to work. I think restaurants could get away with price hikes to compensate for hazard pay tho.

1:47 AM · Sep 28, 2021Twitter for iPhone

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Crazy thing is he did increase his hourly pay by a couple of dollars. Still hasn’t done the trick. Right now he’s running the whole place pretty much by himself (boba shop).

Jesse Powell

@jespow

Sep 28, 2021

This is why UBI worries me. If you have Internet for entertainment, you can get by on very little. Lots of able-bodied people removed from the workforce. Nobody will have savings. Min wage will have to be like $50/hr to clear the hurdle of being worth it vs not working.

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Stimmies aren’t coming anymore (at least where I live) but when you’re a customer, show some appreciation for the person bringing your food. Doesn’t have to be $. Tip 20% and look your server in the eyes and thank them for doing what they do. It means more than you could know