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03/11/24 7:01:58 PM
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ScazarMeltex
03/11/24 8:30:55 PM
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https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1767241511522193766
So will there be surge wages for the employees?

Any restaurant that tries this deserves to go under.

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Enclave
03/11/24 8:32:00 PM
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Thanks for the list of where to never go again.

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pnut027
03/11/24 8:33:22 PM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1767241511522193766
So will there be surge wages for the employees?

Any restaurant that tries this deserves to go under.
Only in the opposite direction. Wages go down during slow hours.

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C_Pain
03/11/24 8:33:32 PM
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Why on earth would you do this and not keep it hidden as best as possible? Like there's no positive spin.

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modena
03/11/24 8:35:09 PM
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Who are the "dozens" more? I need to make a list.

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Tyranthraxus
03/11/24 8:36:02 PM
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pnut027 posted...
Only in the opposite direction. Wages go down during slow hours.
That's already been a thing for decades they just call it "scheduling" instead

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03/11/24 8:36:58 PM
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That Dave & Buster's self-sustaining economy is about to crash

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Umbreon
03/11/24 8:37:12 PM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1767241511522193766
So will there be surge wages for the employees?


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thronedfire2
03/11/24 8:37:26 PM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1767241511522193766
So will there be surge wages for the employees?

only in that they schedule more employees for the busier times.

surge pricing will let them make up for the fact that they need 8 people there during the lunch rush, but 5 of them are useless when they aren't as busy.

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ellis123
03/11/24 8:37:52 PM
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C_Pain posted...
Why on earth would you do this and not keep it hidden as best as possible? Like there's no positive spin.
Not to the consumer, no, but to the investor...

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pnut027
03/11/24 8:40:55 PM
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thronedfire2 posted...
only in that they schedule more employees for the busier times.

surge pricing will let them make up for the fact that they need 8 people there during the lunch rush, but 5 of them are useless when they aren't as busy.
Lmao, They wont be scheduling more people. Busy hours simply mean you work harder.

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Torgo
03/11/24 8:41:45 PM
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Capitalism isn't already rigged enough in their favor?

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Alles-Losen
03/11/24 8:42:35 PM
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pnut027 posted...

Lmao, They wont be scheduling more people. Busy hours simply mean you work harder.

This.

If anything they will cut staff to squeeze more blood from the stone

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ClayGuida
03/11/24 8:43:52 PM
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This won't work out well for them. If people are bitching about mayo going from 2.99 to 3.29, they're definitely going to be pissed about fluctuating prices.

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Mew
03/11/24 8:45:37 PM
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Nice. I had a good idea about surge tipping but this works too

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thronedfire2
03/11/24 8:45:41 PM
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pnut027 posted...
Lmao, They wont be scheduling more people. Busy hours simply mean you work harder.

uh, restaurants already do schedule more people for busier times. there's no way you're going into a busy fast food restaurant during lunch and they only have 3-4 people working like they do during slower times. but because of labor laws they can't hire people just to work from 11-2, so they have to give them full shifts in which they're not really needed for the other 4-6 hours

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ClayGuida
03/11/24 8:46:25 PM
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thronedfire2 posted...
uh, restaurants already do schedule more people for busier times. there's no way you're going into a busy fast food restaurant during lunch and they only have 3-4 people working like they do during slower times. but because of labor laws they can't hire people just to work from 11-2, so they have to give them full shifts in which they're not really needed for the other 4-6 hours
Lmfao

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thronedfire2
03/11/24 8:46:59 PM
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ClayGuida posted...
Lmfao

lmfao? have you ever worked fast food?

it's typical to have open and 2nd shifts overlap, so there's 3-5 extra people(depending on how big and busy the place is) during the lunch and 2-4pm rush. but when it's not busy most places will just have one person in the front, one doing drive-through, and one on the grill. maybe one cleaning or stocking and as a backup in case it suddenly gets busy.

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kage_53
03/11/24 8:47:23 PM
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Yet another reason why I dont go to restaurants.
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ClayGuida
03/11/24 8:47:38 PM
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thronedfire2 posted...
lmfao? have you ever worked fast food?
Have you ever been to a restaurant?

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thronedfire2
03/11/24 8:50:59 PM
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ClayGuida posted...
Have you ever been to a restaurant?

uh, yes, many times?

If I go to mcdonald's at 9am they've got 3 people there. if I go at 1pm and there's a 20 car line and I go inside instead, there's at least 5-6 people working

also I'm going to take your answer as a no to my first question, so you don't know what you're talking about.

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Letsago
03/11/24 8:51:54 PM
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I've never heard of any of those places

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Umbreon
03/11/24 8:52:10 PM
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Torgo posted...
Capitalism isn't already rigged enough in their favor?

Enough is neve enough.

You could quite literally have all the money in the world, stockholders would start complaining about the 'stagnation' a week later.

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kage_53
03/11/24 8:54:05 PM
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Torgo posted...
Capitalism isn't already rigged enough in their favor?
Most restaurants shut down within 1-2 years.
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ironman2009
03/11/24 8:55:32 PM
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wonder if something like this would work in a bar

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thronedfire2
03/11/24 8:57:35 PM
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kage_53 posted...
Most restaurants shut down within 1-2 years.

not fast food restaurants. there's basically no way they can fail with the franchising unless they pick an absolutely awful location.

the town I used to work in closed one of its dunkin donuts that was within a mile of another. and you know what they did? they opened a new one. within a mile of the third one. Want to guess where this newly opened one is located? it's inside a Home Depot.

they only ever have 2 people working because that's all they need for the business they get. but it's right next to the highway and it makes the other dunkies a half mile away less busy, so that one also needs less employees(and doesn't cause drive through traffic to back up into the street anymore)

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pnut027
03/11/24 9:17:33 PM
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thronedfire2 posted...
uh, restaurants already do schedule more people for busier times. there's no way you're going into a busy fast food restaurant during lunch and they only have 3-4 people working like they do during slower times. but because of labor laws they can't hire people just to work from 11-2, so they have to give them full shifts in which they're not really needed for the other 4-6 hours
These fast food places run lean during times that are busy to make up for time when they are slow. While the hour-to-hour labor-to-revenue ratio is high during slow times, the overall labor is low for the day because they dont schedule more people when its busy.

During busy times, they make far more in revenue than they expend in additional labor costs. This isnt to offset labor costs in the least. This is pure opportunistic profit. At Taco Bell, we could clear about $3,000 during a lunch rush, with maybe $400 in labor costs. Im being generous. Lets assume in 2005, everyone made $12/hr, with 10 people during a 3 hour lunch rush. Thats still only $360.

And before you ask, I worked at Taco Bell from 16 to 18 years old.

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Euripides
03/11/24 9:22:52 PM
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Isn't "Happy Hour" at the bar just reverse-surge pricing?

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pnut027
03/11/24 9:24:15 PM
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Euripides posted...
Isn't "Happy Hour" at the bar just reverse-surge pricing?
If you assume the quality of drink is the same lol.

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ellis123
03/11/24 9:25:12 PM
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Euripides posted...
Isn't "Happy Hour" at the bar just reverse-surge pricing?
No. They sell you less for less. Surge pricing is the same for more.

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Euripides
03/11/24 9:26:19 PM
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ellis123 posted...
No. They sell you less for less. Surge pricing is the same for more.

Bottles of beer are less?

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pnut027
03/11/24 9:30:30 PM
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Euripides posted...
Bottles of beer are less?
You get bottled beer for happy hour?

Ive only seen cocktails or beer on tap.

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Axiom
03/11/24 9:34:35 PM
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More restaurants to write off
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ellis123
03/11/24 9:35:01 PM
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Euripides posted...
Bottles of beer are less?
I was talking about the food. And the mixed drinks.

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Heavy_D_Forever
03/11/24 9:35:54 PM
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When I go to D&B they have a menu. How can they change the price from what I see on the Menu?

Unless this is only for online orders? People who order online can get fucked for agreeing to pay those ridiculous service fees in the first place.

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DoctorPiranha3
03/11/24 9:36:26 PM
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They're about to surge shutdown a lot of locations when business drops
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Glob
03/11/24 9:38:36 PM
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ellis123 posted...
No. They sell you less for less. Surge pricing is the same for more.

Sounds like you go to bad happy hours.
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ellis123
03/11/24 9:44:24 PM
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Glob posted...
Sounds like you go to bad happy hours.
And it sounds like you don't get that the average is what matters, not the existence of an exception. That what happy hours I've been to are functionally irrelevant.

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emblem-man
03/11/24 9:45:38 PM
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Surprised they just don't extend happy hour and then raise prices outside if happy hour

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pnut027
03/11/24 9:45:58 PM
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Heavy_D_Forever posted...
When I go to D&B they have a menu. How can they change the price from what I see on the Menu?

Unless this is only for online orders? People who order online can get fucked for agreeing to pay those ridiculous service fees in the first place.
Theyll just print surge pricing menus lol. Or have you scan the QR code with the surge pricing on it.

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ScazarMeltex
03/11/24 9:49:56 PM
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pnut027 posted...
Theyll just print surge pricing menus lol. Or have you scan the QR code with the surge pricing on it.
Or go to digital only menus that adjust themselves.

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Heavy_D_Forever
03/11/24 9:53:53 PM
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pnut027 posted...
Theyll just print surge pricing menus lol. Or have you scan the QR code with the surge pricing on it.
It would be insane to make every resturaunt have separate menus and expect their staff to remember to put them out at specific times. The D&B closest to me usually only has 1 bartender on staff and they can barely keep track of all the orders coming in.

ScazarMeltex posted...
Or go to digital only menus that adjust themselves.
Fuck that, If I don't see a menu on the bar I ask the bartender to give me one. I get they did that during covid but that shit is over now. Gimme my menu bitches.

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Glob
03/11/24 9:55:18 PM
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ellis123 posted...
And it sounds like you don't get that the average is what matters, not the existence of an exception. That what happy hours I've been to are functionally irrelevant.

Honestly, I have no idea what youre driving at.

Ive never been to a happy hour where they give you less for less.
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Smashingpmkns
03/11/24 9:58:54 PM
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Heavy_D_Forever posted...
When I go to D&B they have a menu. How can they change the price from what I see on the Menu?

Unless this is only for online orders? People who order online can get fucked for agreeing to pay those ridiculous service fees in the first place.
Probably just replace all physical menus with a QR code that updates live

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SiO4
03/11/24 10:07:45 PM
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thronedfire2 posted...
the town I used to work in closed one of its dunkin donuts that was within a mile of another. and you know what they did? they opened a new one. within a mile of the third one. Want to guess where this newly opened one is located? it's inside a Home Depot.


LOL Wut?

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03/11/24 10:14:45 PM
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modena posted...
Who are the "dozens" more? I need to make a list.

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LightHawKnight
03/11/24 10:15:56 PM
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People really need to start voting with their wallets years ago.

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