Shortly before opening, Casa Bonita’s new owners Matt Stone and Trey Parker decided to eliminate tipping and instead pay workers a flat wage of $30 per hour.
Now I could be wrong, but getting a an hourly wage as a restaurant worker is FAR better than relying on tips. I feel like either workers in this situation are too obsessed with tips or there’s huge context missing.
You won't get a straight answer but you can often ballpark it if you work there or know someone who does. I have friends at McDonalds and Dominoes, where the owners were making ~$50 and ~$80 per labor hour, respectively, iirc. That's profit after all known non-labor expenses.
I make it a point to figure this out for every place I or a friend works at, and then make sure everyone who works there knows the real numbers. Because bourgeois fucks will act like money's tight and lie to your face, so knowing the truth is necessary for convincing workers they can collectively bargain for more.