The Other Side of the Menu

Just another Karen gone wild story, this one in Ohio.

The Karen in question, Rosemary Hayne, 39, threw her burrito bowl at Chipotle worker Emily Russell, who got her order wrong.

The Chipotle worker was struck in the face with the meal she prepared because why not humiliate the person working her ass off for minimum wage?

This punishment fits the crime.

A judge has ordered Rosemary Hayne of Ohio, to work at a fast-food restaurant for two months, 20 hours per week, to avoid prison.

On a slightly different subject, I have done time in the service industry. Throughout my first five years I relied on tips. I don’t appreciate the system, and I would change it if I had the power.

Think about it this way. The French include the gratuity, and le serveur et la serveuse have no motivation to be nice to you. Despite their reputation for rudeness, in France 🇫🇷:

• A 15% service fee is included in the price of what you see on the menu at every café, restaurant, bar, etc.
• Servers in France are paid a living wage with paid vacations and healthcare.

The U.S. system impels wait staff to feign subservience and interest in the complaints made by patrons who berate them for things they have no control over. The average hourly wage paid to an employee who receives tips is $2.15, not much more than I received decades ago. This has to change.

The system is in theory to meant encourage excellent service. The problem is that people who tip will tip even if the service isn’t stellar. Those who don’t would not do so if you served their food while swinging upside-down by a trapeze, while holding a black pepper grinder with your knees. (Unintentional rhyme.)

Who remembers Trump’s failed attempt to force food servers to share tips with management? Every tip is already shared, some more so than others. One of my employers at a fine dining establishment required the wait staff to divide tips among bartenders, bus-persons, hosts, and coat checkers.

I’d like to send my thanks to every customer I served in my time, except the elderly couple who left a printed business card in place of a tip that said they don’t believe in tipping because my employer should pay me more. Also no thanks to the dine and dashers whose tab I had to cover because- the boss won’t take the loss.

I was also a bartender for a restaurant where I was taxed for tips I didn’t receive because I had to enter “to-go orders” using my employee number.

I believe the entire system of tipping is wrong. Regardless, every single person should be forced to experience the other side of the menu.
Two months of part-time work is too lenient. I think six months might teach people, everyone is human, even the person making your burrito bowl.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12834083/Ohio-burrito-bowl-Chipotle-prison-sentence.html