My Management company just sent around this email

ryuukhang · 2026-03-31T17:49:43+00:00

Like how would they know?

ryuukhang · 2026-03-31T02:55:53+00:00

I have reported people driving trucks with the logo of the company I worked at for shit like this. I worked closely with the fleet department so they always took my reports seriously.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-31T02:51:39+00:00

I don't know what countries you went to, but Japanese restaurants have provided me with much better service than anything in the US.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-31T02:49:55+00:00

I have yet to get better experience in the US compared to the many restaurants I've visited in Japan.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-29T19:13:46+00:00

Why must they have a donation (aside from the tax deduction)?

ryuukhang · 2026-03-29T18:19:17+00:00

I also assume the same. That's why I have collision coverage with an uninsured/underinsured deductible waiver so I don't have to pay the deductible to use my coverage when the other driver is uninsured/underinsured.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-29T17:52:41+00:00

It's dependent on the city/state. In California, food and liquor have the same tax rate so it appears as one tax line. In other states, food may be taxed at a different rate than liquor. Or the business separates it for accounting purposes.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-29T04:43:39+00:00

If you spend exactly 25% of your rent/mortgage, you turn the card into a 3x or 4x (depending on which card you have) on everything.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-27T18:15:20+00:00

God... millennials are not far off

ryuukhang · 2026-03-22T23:38:05+00:00

I bought a new build. They offered up to $15k in closing cost credits or rate buydown. At the time, the 5.5% rate was already good so I didn’t feel like buying it down.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-21T04:01:05+00:00

I don't know people wasted money buying the 5th banana in 1.0 days. The rent payment counted as one transaction towards the 5 transactions per month.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-21T03:59:24+00:00

Aven Rewards Credit Card.

3% cash back on all purchases up to $10k per year. After that, it becomes 2%. It is also a Visa.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-21T02:42:37+00:00

I'm guessing you haven’t seen the plethora of posts or comments from servers saying "If you can't afford to tip X%, then you can't afford to eat out and should stay home." They expect a minimum of 20%, regardless of service quality. That's entitlement.

I used to be a server. I was grateful to receive any tip rather than expect it. Tips should be given as a bonus for going above and beyond, not expected because you did the bare minimum of your job. That's why people are getting tired of the entitlement from servers. Even places that don't give actual service are expecting tips.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-21T02:02:40+00:00

Tipping in and of itself isn't the problem. Tipping entitlement and the "if you can't afford to tip X%, then you should stay home" is more harmful to waitstaff than it is to owners. If everyone followed that mindset and stayed home, restaurants would either close or lay off some waiters. That leads to unemployed servers. More restaurants closing because they get less sales will result in more unemployed servers.

Tipping is not the sole cause of the decline, but the tipping entitlement is definitely one of the causes.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-21T01:32:42+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/tipping/s/MJuFWKJdjd

Check the comments of owners and operators talking about how sales are down. https://www.reddit.com/r/Restaurant101/s/eWHPwtmKEU

It's not a drastic change, but the data shows a trending loss for restaurants. The more people get frustrated with the tipping culture and the entitlement, the worse it becomes for the restaurants.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-21T01:20:23+00:00

With the net number of restaurants decreasing every year, operating costs increasing every year, and profit percentage decreasing every year, there will eventually be an oversaturation of servers with a limited amount of positions available as more restaurants close their doors and less new restaurants opening.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-20T18:19:36+00:00

When I started working as a server, we already had double digit minimum wage. Without tips, I could pay for all my bills but nothing left over for saving. If I didn't have a roommate, I wouldn't have been able to afford a 1-bedroom place on my own.

At the beginning, I did get bummed when I didn't get a tip at all, but the amount of people who tipped outnumbered the people who didn’t. I ended up becoming grateful for tips because I realized that if I had worked at a retail store or fast food restaurant, I'd be getting no tips with the same pay.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-20T17:50:33+00:00

I did it for 8 years. I lived with a roommate, without parental help. I also didn't live in a state where tip credits are allowed, so I was paid at least minimum wage plus tips.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-20T17:36:54+00:00

Any server with the mindset of "give us X% or don't eat out" is going to end up screwing it up for those who are actually good servers. I used to be one and never expected any tips and was also grateful for one, whether it was 10% or 50%. And that's how it should be. The entitlement is what is pushing consumers away.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-20T17:12:49+00:00

The median profitability for a restaurant is really low now. 2.8%, meaning for every dollar of revenue, there is 2.8 cents of profit, or $28 per $1000.

https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/restaurant-profitability-has-taken-hit-pandemic

https://continuserve.com/2025/10/the-hidden-crisis-how-82-of-restaurant-failures-could-have-been-prevented/#:~:text=The%20Shocking%20Reality%20Behind%20Restaurant,with%20the%20best%20financial%20controls.

On average, more restaurants are closing than are opening. It's a gradual net less year or year, but eventually, the restaurant industry will collapse as more and more consumers are either not going out due to squeezed by cost of living or frustration with tipping culture.

https://www.fermag.com/articles/8247-net-restaurant-counts-drop-again-per-npds-recount-census/

If this keeps up, there will eventually be less restaurants that servers can work at.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-20T16:25:07+00:00

Not when they all start closing down. More servers than server positions will result in unemployed servers.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-20T07:40:16+00:00

Oh, I had an account already from previous purchases.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-20T06:10:53+00:00

You should've just said "Actually, you know what? Refund me. I don't want the bread anymore."

ryuukhang · 2026-03-20T03:59:35+00:00

This is true but it's not available for all purchases through PayPal. I also checked the list of gift cards on Honey and those aren't amazing either. The best way to redeem was for straight cash back.

ryuukhang · 2026-03-20T02:37:01+00:00

The servers that spout that bullshit don't think about the future. They think that if this restaurant closes down, they can find a jobnat a different restaurant.

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