Archive for 2021

LET’S GET SUSHI AND NOT PAY: Restaurants Are Now Adding ‘Equity’ Charges to Customers’ Checks to Fight Oppression.

On its website, Broders’ has a notice to customers notifying them of a new 15 percent “benefits and equity” charge they’ve instituted. They justify the charge, first, by explaining that “many states have allowed reduced minimum wages for service staff in the form of a tip credit.” (More on this in a minute.)

The restaurant’s second justification is that many tippers are racist and sexist, according to uncited research.

“Studies have also shown that there is inequity and built-in bias in the way consumers give tips,” the statement reads. “In general, Black or Brown servers receive less tips than Caucasian servers. There is gender bias as well.”

The final part of the statement says the new policy stems from wider racial injustice and is not a substitute for gratuity.

Telling your customers that they’re awful people and then charging them extra for it seems like a lousy way to encourage repeat business.

THE AMERICAN HISTORY PODCAST: Our Finest Hour. “It will take all the resolution and courage we can muster today to save American freedom from the barbarism that stalks us from within.”

NEXT, BIDEN CONTRACTS-OUT CIA/NSA TO HUAWEI: Unbelievable that five GOP senators would vote to confirm this guy to be general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

The five are: Blunt of Missouri, Burr of North Carolina, Cornyn of Texas, Collins of Maine and Murkowski of Alaska. The first two are retiring. Why not the other three as well?

THE TABLE IS ALWAYS SET AT THE CANNIBAL FEAST:  Hugo Administration Team Resigns.

To show we’re caring people, we should send them some packets of ketchup and a few paper napkins.

INDY CAR’S SAM SCHMIDT WALKS FOR FIRST TIME IN 21 YEARS: Thanks to an exoskeleton, the Indy car owner and former driver was able to dance with his daughter at her wedding. More stories like this, please.

WE SHOULDN’T GIVE THEM A SINGLE MORE WORD:  Word Up: Liberal Linguistic Lunacy.

Point and laugh, and refuse to use their ridiculous speech deformations.