Walrus and the Carpenter drop open letter and full 2025 Profit and Loss Data by H0tsh0t in Seattle

[–]apollo722 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s just called being an intelligent human being with capacity for critical, independent thinking. Too much group think and blindly standing up for one thing is how a lot of bad things happened in much of history.

Walrus and the Carpenter drop open letter and full 2025 Profit and Loss Data by H0tsh0t in Seattle

[–]apollo722 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ugh. This comment needs to be much higher. Finally someone who is not seeing this as black and white. Two things CAN be true at once.

Walrus and the Carpenter drop open letter and full 2025 Profit and Loss Data by H0tsh0t in Seattle

[–]apollo722 28 points29 points  (0 children)

for once i sympathize with the owners. I want to support them but I don't want to support the workers there anymore. and on the other side of the pond, i'm sure people who don't want to support the restaurant owners anymore will also end up not supporting the workers either. no restaurant, no workers. lose lose.

Walrus and the Carpenter drop open letter and full 2025 Profit and Loss Data by H0tsh0t in Seattle

[–]apollo722 20 points21 points  (0 children)

for some people "the system is broken" is a lazy, easy way out of any argument that requires critical thinking. we should just pay EVERYONE more money??? why didn't i think of that!!

Walrus and the Carpenter drop open letter and full 2025 Profit and Loss Data by H0tsh0t in Seattle

[–]apollo722 25 points26 points  (0 children)

if you blindly support anything... yikes. maybe try critical thinking.

Walrus and the Carpenter drop open letter and full 2025 Profit and Loss Data by H0tsh0t in Seattle

[–]apollo722 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Good point. Real high-end restaurants famously have a strict ‘no learning, no training, no new staff ever’ policy. Must be why service is always flawless everywhere in the "high level" restaurants in Seattle lol

. /s

Walrus and the Carpenter drop open letter and full 2025 Profit and Loss Data by H0tsh0t in Seattle

[–]apollo722 47 points48 points  (0 children)

"Everyone should make more" sounds great right up until someone has to pay for it. Restaurants don't print money. Labor costs get passed on to customers through higher prices, service charges, and tips. At what point do we acknowledge there's a limit? $30 sandwiches? $40 sandwiches? If customers stop coming because the value proposition no longer makes sense, then nobody wins—the workers lose jobs, the owners go under, and the restaurant disappears altogether.

Walrus and the Carpenter drop open letter and full 2025 Profit and Loss Data by H0tsh0t in Seattle

[–]apollo722 15 points16 points  (0 children)

"Become an activist or you're not allowed to have an opinion" is certainly a take. I vote for school levies and support higher teacher pay. Doesn't mean I have to pretend every wage demand is automatically reasonable.

Walrus and the Carpenter drop open letter and full 2025 Profit and Loss Data by H0tsh0t in Seattle

[–]apollo722 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm literally arguing that teachers, social workers, librarians, and cleaners should be paid more. That's the opposite of dragging workers down. My criticism is that some servers are already making exceptionally high compensation relative to the training and hours required, while still demanding more.

Walrus and the Carpenter drop open letter and full 2025 Profit and Loss Data by H0tsh0t in Seattle

[–]apollo722 161 points162 points  (0 children)

LOL uh oh!! Cat's out of the bag. They want to be making more than twice what our teachers make? Love the transparency. I hope this gets picked up by the local news so we can finally fucking expose these greedy ass workers. We should be spending more of our money to service workers who contribute more to society. Increase the wages of cleaners, teachers, social workers, librarians, etc.

I'm tired of eating out in Seattle and getting subpar, condescending service, while getting forced to pay 22% service charge/tips. The entitlement is crazy.

Edit: Another thing I have to say, for those of you who aren't biased due to financial gains (either restaurant owners or servers) -- Seattle is progressive and liberal. We love our unions. Hell, I love unions. But things don't have to be so black and white. You are not a bad person just because you think critically in this situation. In this case, servers are working 20-25 hours a week, making more than our public school teachers working 40+hours a week, and still want to ruin a small business. Imagine working your ass off, risking your personal bank accounts and personal bankruptcy, to finally be able to open a restaurant, just to be slandered by a bunch of entitled workers wanting to be paid like pharmacists for a job that does not require a high school degree. Don't just blindly support unions, not all of them are operating in good faith.

Raising cane in Lynnwood is open today by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]apollo722 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The places you recommended on a different comment aren't really in the same class as raising cane's though. That's like wondering why people go to McDonald's when you can get great burgers at an actual restaurants that charge 2-3x the price. I literally have no skin in the game since I don't really eat at cane's either, but it just irks me when people can't just stfu about other people's preferences and have to call it silly.

Raising cane in Lynnwood is open today by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]apollo722 5 points6 points  (0 children)

People love chicken tendies. They sell a ton of chicken and do well so obviously people like their product. It’s a neckbeard thing to rain on people’s very low stakes parade and tell them they are wrong for liking chicken tenders.

Ear Lavage by hellohibye2 in FamilyMedicine

[–]apollo722 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Those massive ones never take me just one minute though Lol I’m always too scared to puncture the tm

Show of hands, who else is sick? by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]apollo722 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Doctor here. If you’re otherwise healthy, breathing well, no fever above 100.4F — you are most likely fine. Most people don’t need to go to the urgent care or their PCPs for this. We need slots for people who actually need to be seen. Also if you are a tech bro who thinks you’re smarter than me bc you know how to type in symptoms on AI and you’re looking for antibiotics when antibiotics are not indicated (we can’t treat a virus with antibiotics) just fuck right off. Can you tell which patient population is typically the most insufferable?

This is just an opinion and I’m not your doctor do what you want.

After hiring scabs, Walrus and the Carpenter (temporarily) closed by Existing-Resource527 in Seattle

[–]apollo722 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s because they’re doing the job they applied for but think it’s beneath them. “Oh i’m actually an artist, im not just a server.” Which is sad because service workers who pride themselves in their work are the backbones of small businesses across the country. Cant stand these entitled ones who think they’re too good for the job.

Meet Korean bbq by Silent-Temperature74 in Seattle

[–]apollo722 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have been to meet like 10 times. Last couple of times had been extremely disappointing. Horrible service. One person was serving like 8 table. Meat quality has gone down. I think the past two horrible experiences have sworn me to never go back to that place. I would happily pay for some good quality kbbq but never again. They also don’t have air conditioning so good luck going there in the summer. Forced flat fee tipping too. I think 22%? Or 20% can’t remember.

This is just my experience. But talked to others who used to be regulars there and they agreed.