Let's take an honest look.

[HarleyDog]

(06-11-2024, 11:59 AM)pally Wrote: Put a lot of the blame on the service industry itself.  They spent decades using and abusing employees.  Lousy hours, lousy benefits, lousy pay, lousy customers, coupled wth managers and owners who worked hard to cheat them out of hours or pay.  In a different job market the employees were programmed to believe they were stuck with a crummy job becase they were expendable.  Then COVID hit, and the pressure these service workers were placed under increased 10fold.  They were forced to work as "essential" employee.  They were abused by customers all for still lousy pay.  These employees wised up.  Some little minumum wage job isnt worth what they went through.  So they quit in droves...oops turns out these good workers weren't so expendable afterall.  

Wow, you really went all out to blame everything on everyone else here. Granted, some of your points have merit, but you have to consider the way it is. Food servers are paid lower wages because they receive tips. Is that fair? Well, depends how you look at it. If you guarantee a waiter/waitress good money, then what is their inventive to provide good service? However, if their tips are the main source of income, then they are forced to provide good service and if they can't they don't belong in someone else business. 

As for the abuse, where is this happening? It's only abuse if you are led to believe conditions are different before accepting a job. However, to accept a job knowing beforehand what it entails, how can they cry abuse after they went to them for a job? I will agree that hours are crappy, but then again, most part time hours are crappy. I don't see where you get managers and owners working hard to cheat them out of pay either. Not saying it doesn't happen, but yikes. That's not the norm and usually places like that don't stay in business long once the word gets out. Lastly, I will agree customer attitude has taken a downturn lately. Maybe it's time we get rid of the saying, "The customer is always right." Because more times than not, it leads into soapboxing. There are better ways of handling service issues than throwing stuff in the restaurant and punching the server.