:The post could also be entitled “Every Single DFL-Linked Blog On Emmer’s Tip Credit Proposal”.<\/p>\n
Because I must have seen twenty different variations on TOM EMMER THINKS WAITRESSES MAKE TOO MUCH<\/strong> in the leftyblogs the past couple of days.<\/p>\n I’d love to talk with one of these people – any one of whom may or may not have worked as a food\/beverage server, but of whom none I suspect have ever run\u00a0 small business that wasn’t a “political consultancy” of some sort or another – and ask ’em a few questions.<\/p>\n It might go something like this:<\/p>\n MITCH<\/strong>: So – how much is something worth?<\/p>\n A FICTIONAL BUT ALL TOO REALISTIC LEFTYBLOGGER<\/strong>:What the Government says it’s worth!<\/p>\n MITCH<\/strong>:\u00a0 Uh huh.\u00a0 So if you’re buying, say, a Prius from me…<\/p>\n AFBATRL<\/strong>:…yaaaaaaay!<\/p>\n MITCH<\/strong>: …and I charge you $80,000, will you buy it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n AFBATRL<\/strong>: Oh, bogus, dude. That’s more than I want to spend!\u00a0 No Prius is worth that much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n MITCH<\/strong>:\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 Exactly.\u00a0 So if I try to sell a Prius for more than you are naturally willing to spend for it, nobody will buy it.\u00a0 Right?<\/p>\n AFBATRL<\/strong>:\u00a0 OK, I guess.<\/p>\n MITCH<\/strong>: OK, so what if I have a car lot with ten Priuses, that cost me $15,000 wholesale…<\/p>\n AFBATRL<\/strong>:\u00a0 …what’s that?<\/p>\n MITCH<\/strong>: …er, from the factory, and I sell them to people for $1 a piece?<\/p>\n AFBATRL<\/strong>:\u00a0 Ooh!\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 You can do that?<\/p>\n MITCH<\/strong>:\u00a0 No.\u00a0 I’ll go broke.\u00a0<\/p>\n AFBATRL<\/strong>:\u00a0 So what?\u00a0 You’ll have ten buyers!\u00a0 With Priuses!\u00a0\u00a0That’s what busiensses need, right?\u00a0 Buyers? \u00a0You get buyers, Mother Gaia gets Priuses!<\/p>\n MITCH<\/strong>:\u00a0 {{facepalm}}<\/p>\n AFBATRL<\/strong>:\u00a0 Blogger Berg?<\/p>\n MITCH<\/strong>:\u00a0 Yeah, I just…OK.\u00a0 So say you own a restaurant.\u00a0<\/p>\n AFBATRL<\/strong>:\u00a0 A vegan breakfast place!<\/p>\n MITCH<\/strong>: Whatever.\u00a0 And after you play for your supplies and rent and taxes, you have nine dollars an hour to pay for labor – your waitstaff.\u00a0 You’ve got a decent location – lots of traffic, a neighborhood full of single couples without kids…<\/p>\n AFBATRL<\/strong>:\u00a0 …yaaaay!<\/p>\n MITCH<\/strong>: …so you wanna make sure you have plenty of service.\u00a0 So do you pay one waitress nine dollars an hour, or do you pay three of them $3.00 an hour apiece?<\/p>\n AFBATRL<\/strong>:\u00a0 Simple.\u00a0 You pay three of them nine dollars an hour!\u00a0 Because $3,50 is not a living wage!<\/p>\n MITCH<\/strong>:\u00a0 Well, wait!\u00a0 You can’t afford that!\u00a0 If you do that, you’ll be losing $18 an hour, every hour!<\/p>\n AFBATRL<\/strong>:\u00a0 Well, there must be some sort of government program…<\/p>\n MITCH<\/strong>: Well, hold on a minute –\u00a0a good waitress can get tips!\u00a0\u00a0 I mean, do the math; fifteen tables – five tables to a waitress – each getting three $30 tabs per morning rush between 6-9AM, paying 15% tips after allowing for deadbeats, equals $67 per morning per waitress – which is $18 an hour, counting the $3 you’re paying them.\u00a0<\/p>\n AFBATRL<\/strong>:\u00a0 Oh, yeah!\u00a0 I read on “Tom Emmer’s Minnesota” that he said that a waitress can make $100,000 a year!\u00a0 So why aren’t the waitresses in my vegan breakfast joint making that kind of money?<\/p>\n MITCH<\/strong>:\u00a0 Look, there are no guarantees.\u00a0 Being a waiter, a bartender, a cocktailer, depends on how good you are, and where you work – and the better you are, the more you can earn.\u00a0 Someone pouring coffee at a truckstop in Valley City North Dakota might make a few bucks a day; someone working at Manny’s, serving $600 in meals per table to people who are used to tipping 20% for good service, can make hundreds of dollars in an evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n AFBATRL<\/strong>:\u00a0 So why don’t I pay my staff hundreds of dollars a day, and make it easier?<\/p>\n MITCH<\/strong>:\u00a0 Because you would have to add more than 20% to the cost of your food to pay them, which means at least 20% fewer people would come in to your restaurant.<\/p>\n AFBATRL<\/strong>:\u00a0 So we’d need a bailout!<\/p>\n MITCH<\/strong>:\u00a0 Er…<\/p>\n AFBATRL<\/strong>:\u00a0 Hey, I do have a question.<\/p>\n MITCH<\/strong>:\u00a0 What?<\/p>\n AFBATRL<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 What is this concept of “tipping” you keep talking about?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Just a hunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" :The post could also be entitled “Every Single DFL-Linked Blog On Emmer’s Tip Credit Proposal”. 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