Would love to hear your thoughts!
If they pay their employees a fair, livable wage then there is no need for tips. Tip culture is out of control anyway. We should be factoring in the cost of the employees in the product that is being sold.
Well I hope it’s because their employees are actually being paid a living wage
It is. They changed from a tipped wage to a set hourly
Went from $14.27 to $15.27 plus tips to $30 flat an hour
As it should be. Everywhere.
Between this and shrooms I may have to visit Colorado
Please only visit. We’re plenty full thanks.
Laughs in Southern California
I never realized this was a real place!
It is! And I hope it’s going to be amazing under this new management.
Apparently something like 40 million went into the rehab of the restaurant by Matt and Trey.
Yes, they made a lot of changes (like the tipping, the menu, and charging for tickets), and I can’t wait to see what they did to the interior. I’m more excited about this than I should be. Or maybe not excited enough.
I’m straight up contemplating a trip to Colorado with a Casa Bonita pit stop.
That’s always a great idea, so much to see and do here! They said they would be doing a soft opening this weekend (with only people selected from the mailing list), so I am not sure exactly when they will be completely open. Keep in mind you will need tickets, and they might get sold out for a while. You may want to sign up with them to stay abreast.
Good to know. Eventually hoping to take a Colorado trip and will call ahead. Thanks
That’s awesome! If you need ideas on what to do, feel free to shoot me a message. Casa Bonita is just the top of the iceberg. You can also visit castles and wrestle alligators here… if you want to.
So far the trip idea is driven by my love of what Colorado has to offer nature wise, followed by shrooms and now followed by Casa Bonita. Where should I look in terms of where to stay? My trip doesn’t need to revolve around Casa Bonita but I’d want to be within 30 or so minutes of it.
$30/hr sounds great and all, but that place is going to be cranking around the clock and the servers alone would have probably made $50/hr+ on the original wage and tip-out, bartenders probably $70/hr. Wonder why they made the last minute switch.
They would make more with tips if the restaurant is full, which I’m sure it will be for a while. I understand why people might not be on board with this. I know I appreciate no tips as a customer, but I also want to make sure they get paid accordingly.
Right, and as any sales job, you should at least be getting some sort of commission for how much you sell, otherwise servers only need to do the bare minimum with no incentive to go above and beyond, or to upsell anything.
Totally agree tipping is absurd these days, but we need to fix it the right way and not take it away just for good PR.
Also to add to that, I thought I saw something recently about poverty levels in Denver being adjusted, and $30 and less being the poverty line, does anyone remember that? If so, asking people to work a busy restaurant for poverty line wages is pretty trash.
