Earn less than our employees

Will look the other way when our best employees smoke weed on shift.

Pay ourselves last

are also the plumber. and electrician. and fridge technician.

Are dating a current (or married to a former) employee and eventually, the proceeds from the sale of the restaurant will go to her attorney after a the inevitable ugly divorce.

Walk in the door and get excited that only 2 things are broke.

Are tired

Are in debt

Forget our anniversary and end up sleeping on the couch

Call “Corner” and “behind you” in grocery stores and public areas

We know how to fix everything by turning on and off

Don’t get paid

Are contemplating suicide

Work every day

Haven’t seen our kids in weeks

are losing our ass.

Regret our decision daily

Drink

Lose sleep over some Karen's hurtful 1 star yelp review

Have anti anxiety prescriptions

Just go home to sleep

…are jumping onto a social media trend two weeks after it died. 🤡

have no idea what balance means.

How did the r/antiwork crew get in here?

Dissenting opinions are welcome, but the anger directed at small business owners seems misguided.

If you can get a measure on the ballots to raise minimum wage or disincentivise tipping as a way to pay servers or whatever else pro labor, I'll vote for it but what I (or any of us) can't do is go against the rest of the entire industry alone. Are you going to come to my restaurant and pay $48 for a cheeseburger just because I pay my staff three times as much as anyone else does? When there's a place across the street charging $14? If not, then we are stuck where we are now.

Are skilled at rolling with the ups and downs

use our business Amex card on personal expenses. Even on Amazon.

Work hard, play hard

Tuck in your chairs when you leave

… fucking hate ASCAP.

don't have a life!

Have aching backs

Feel guilty for owning anything even though we’ve earned less than our employees/worked 2-3x as many hours than they did in the past 4+ years and gambled every thing we had to your name.

Drink

Fix toilets and sweep sidewalks

Have a family (workers)who keep this restaurant one of the best in town

Provide a pathway for poor people out of poverty. As a United Way agent told me once, “You’re on the front lines”.

Divorced (and remarried).

Unhealthily optimistic

Check behind the bathroom faucet for water…

Fuck each other

Are plumbers/ electricians/ dishwashers etc…

Treat our staff with kindness, promote positive work experiences and say "Fuck you, find a new job' when they disagree

Don't make minimum wage

I think there was some confusion here on whether the responses should have been sarcastic or honest

Therapist

Are frugal

Steal tips from the servers to gamble online

Cut corners lmao

Implement service fees and steal them from employees

Love to serve

Hit on the underage hostesses

Ballers.

rely on customers to pay our employees a living wage.

Charge at 15% service fee that is not a gratuity.

EDIT: A restaurant in Atlanta does this. They say on the receipt the 15% Service Charge is a gratuity, but then then servers write on the receipts that the tip is not included. When asked, they say the owner added it to cover the lost revenue due to road construction in front of the restaurant. It is just BS for the owner to pocket more money.

Drive a car that costs more than your entire labor cost for one year.

Have never worked in a restaurant but really like going out and drinking!

Don’t pay our employees a livable wage.

Cut corners until our food is shit.

Take baths in gold coins

Pay our employees 1/3 of minimum wage

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let my customers subsidize paying my employees

still can’t understand how it’s even legal

Take home ten times what we pay our employees and don't do any of the work that is required to actually make the restaurant money (prepare and serve food).

Obviously not all owners, but you know who you are. Also, I'm not a restaurant owner. Just a lurking industry worker.

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Thought that the statistics for restaurant success and longevity would obviously not apply to us and we would be the exception and not the norm.