The optics to the average person are "I'm getting ripped off right after prices already went up way too much with inflation". What you're talking about is the reality.
If they called it something along the lines of an off hours discount that's what the optics would be. Clearly the fact that people are talking about this in a generally negative way shows that they aren't seeing it as getting a bargain.
I guess that is true. To me, I think people in the service business, especially back of house in restaurants, have long been getting shafted in terms of pay and quality of life having to work evenings, nights, and weekends for low pay.
So prices going up means they must be getting increased pay (because the restaurant business is so low profit margin).
> So prices going up means they must be getting increased pay
sorry, is this sarcasm?
edit: to clarify, there must be assumptions to see price hikes as benefitting the bottom. even to view meager increases as improvement is disingenuous if what goes down is a fraction of what goes up.
lupire|2 years ago
lepus|2 years ago
lotsofpulp|2 years ago
So prices going up means they must be getting increased pay (because the restaurant business is so low profit margin).
catchnear4321|2 years ago
sorry, is this sarcasm?
edit: to clarify, there must be assumptions to see price hikes as benefitting the bottom. even to view meager increases as improvement is disingenuous if what goes down is a fraction of what goes up.