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Olivia's avatar

Most people haven't got a clue. This hit home.

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John Clements's avatar

I think in these times it’s all about keeping up standards, taking care of your people and surviving, gracefully.

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Dan O'Regan's avatar

I couldn't agree more. We have some brand values, but it really comes down to us being proud of everything that comes off the pass, treating each other with respect, working hard, and being sustainable.

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Mao Zhou's avatar

I think that we have been scammed for years that food and labor should be cheap. It’s not just restaurants. It’s billion dollar retailers who have employees on welfare and who solicit customers to donate so their employees can buy a turkey for Thanksgiving .

If you actually paid your employees properly and charged a fair price all of the cheapskates would whine. It doesn’t help when there are economic or pandemic issues.

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Dan O'Regan's avatar

Indeed. It's a catch 22. A lot of people who want to see people paid a fair wage aren't quite ready to pay the prices that are needed to sustain it.

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Mao Zhou's avatar

I would HAPPILY pay more sometimes if I could bring my own wine. There is a restaurant in Johannesburg that lets you bring your own wine w/o a corkage fee. They have no wine list.

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Dan O'Regan's avatar

If the restaurant relies on drinks sales as a significant source of revenue, then this would also be quite unsustainable. If you brought your own wine, the restaurant would still need to make up at least some of the lost revenue.

Minimum wage in South Africa is about £1.20 an hour, so I’m not sure that’s a particularly equitable comparison.

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Mao Zhou's avatar

Absolutely.

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