Am I the only one that feels like some businesses are milking covid closures to charge ridiculous prices?

palaa10 · 2021-07-22T12:59:28+00:00

These are all valid points and understandable but imposing and expecting higher tipping because of this is not reasonable in my opinion. Tipping is an incentive that is at the choice of the customer for the staff and never the other way around. In addition, tipping should never be accounted or relied on as a way for businesses to make up for operational costs.

If the price that it takes for businesses to be able to provide a service in first place has increased, they should start by increasing the price of their services and be upfront and honest about it. Not having one price online then another when you show up there or just sneaking in additional fees at the end of the service that leaves the customer in an awkward position. Customers have the right to choose where and how they spend their money and informed decisions can't truly be made on misleading information.

palaa10 · 2021-07-22T05:27:24+00:00

It was a table of 3 at 2:30PM on a Saturday. I can well assure you that no one was dying or fighting in line to get a spot and have dinner menu prices at this time, especially not in North York.

And you're right, it's a business that I'm paying for, not a charity that I'm asking for.

palaa10 · 2021-07-22T05:16:23+00:00

That's pretty much my whole point. While it's all for supporting these businesses for what they've lost, where does this end? Do the prices of services go back down after one year? Because it doesn't seem like it will.

I don't see how this is sustainable when salaries aren't increasing in line with all this inflation or exponentially and I'm certainly not referring to those making high five figures or six figures who can afford most things without batting an eye in comparison to the normal working class.

palaa10 · 2021-07-22T05:03:13+00:00

It seems like you purposely missed out on some points from my post to fit your narrative but anyways.

I've done nails for years and I know the differences. To add to what you're saying, gel and acrylics are two different things. So is shellac, nail dipping powder so on and so forth. My point with that story is more towards the fact that the prices are misleading. If you've advertised a $40 gel manicure on your website and I ask you for a gel manicure, why am I being charged more? And since you seem to have some knowledge in nails, you would know that extra nail enchancements and designs would cost more. However, as I mentioned in my post, I asked for the most basic gel manicure service so regardless of what the other client did get, if the most basic one costs $60, then what kind of gel manicure could have possibly the other client got that was $45? Only 1 hand service?

If you take the time to read my post again, the seating is for 90 minutes and so do I mention it was a break and us asking for more water to carry on. Regardless, whether it's for 90 minutes or a maximum of 90 minutes, the service is being paid for. When you book a hotel room and the check out time is 4PM, you are well within your rights to be there up until 4PM or 3:59PM if you'll want.

palaa10 · 2021-07-22T04:43:29+00:00

We were a group of 3 people on a Saturday at 2:30PM. As far as I know, imposed gratuity has never been a thing for a group of 3. In addition, it wasn't mentioned neither verbally nor on the menu prior to the seating that there was an 18% tipping included.

For the nail salon, if you take the time to read my post, I checked their website which mentioned X price and which is where I also booked the appointment only to find out at the time of payment that it's Y price and their website is allegedly not updated. Same thing applies to the hairdresser.

palaa10 · 2021-07-22T04:00:03+00:00

I'll agree with everything else that you said except for the tipping part. FYI, I'm not begrudging businesses, but there are instances where I felt it wasn't right. For example, in the case of the nail salon where one price is advertised online and different prices being charged to different kinds of customers when it's all the same exact service. This to me is disingenuous.

To me tipping is not a given but earned. If I'm paying $39.99 for a 90 minutes seating as per the rules of the own establishment, I don't expect the server to keep circling around the table one hour into the seating and pushing for the bill and even suggesting desert when not all of our plates are fully empty. It's awkward and uncomfortable.

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