Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind
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mandatory tipping? (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by Sourwatermelon32
I am a barista and have worked at Starbucks for a couple of months now. Throughout this interesting experience it is well known amongst my other co workers that are tips SUCK. Which is due to all the total hours worked- which is usually higher than the total amount in tips. So taking all of this into account I thought about employing a mandatory gratuity fee. Which let's say was 10 cents, with over 600 transactions a day that would be roughly $60 a day. Now I imagine something like this must have been thought of because I am sure my store is not the only store with bad tips. What would be the main reasoning to not employing a gratuity fee as low as 10 cents?
BandagedBacon 14 points 3y ago
Or Starbucks could just pay everyone more. Just a thought
Critical50 7 points 3y ago
If Starbucks allowed customers to tip when paying with a card, our pay could easily be boosted by a lot. Local coffee shops that use systems like square make near double their pay because of tips, still paid about the same hourly as us, maybe $0.50-1 more.
It'd be nice if Starbucks would just pay us more, but this company seems to care about keeping a good public face ONLY.
Example:
While a ton of companies with jobs in our pay range were giving raises to $12-15/hour for the SAME exact job, Starbucks just said "We will give raises!" But never did. They gave us some $0.10 raise around that time. Now I see that a whole 2-3 years later, we've gone from $9 to...$9.50. Ive heard from Walmart employees they dont get treated very well, but even they got a better raise.
It'd be nice if Starbucks would just pay us more, but this company seems to care about keeping a good public face ONLY.
Example:
While a ton of companies with jobs in our pay range were giving raises to $12-15/hour for the SAME exact job, Starbucks just said "We will give raises!" But never did. They gave us some $0.10 raise around that time. Now I see that a whole 2-3 years later, we've gone from $9 to...$9.50. Ive heard from Walmart employees they dont get treated very well, but even they got a better raise.
ilovebrandonj 3 points 3y ago
All that would do would be Starbucks raising the prices of drinks, for the millionth time, make customers complain more, and then they’d figure out a way where you never see that money anyway. same reason most restaurants don’t do mandatory tips
blondiebarista 3 points 3y ago
I think it should be a mandatory fee the computer adds after x amount of items ordered and we should offer a way to tip when paying with debit or credit
Nohandlebarista 2 points 3y ago
Y'all sound so entitled sometimes
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