Goldman Steals Tips From Beer Servers

[kpete]

Courtesy of Dave Jamieson at Huffington Post, here's this amazing story.


Turns out Goldman Sachs part-owns a company that's been (apparently illegally) pocketing the 20 percent "service charge" on beers at Yankee stadium – you know, the tips you thought went to the servers. What's next, throwing puppies in jet engines? Installing trip-wires in front of retirement homes?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/goldman-steals-tips-from-beer-servers-20110513

In the more desirable seats at Yankee Stadium, an already pricey $10.50 draft beer will run you an eye-popping $12.60 thanks to an involuntary 20 percent "service fee" tacked on to the original price. If the sticker shock doesn’t make that brew bitter enough, consider this: Despite what you might expect, that extra $2 and change isn't going to the hustling server who sold it to you, according to a new lawsuit.

Legends Hospitality, the concessionaire co-owned by the New York Yankees, the Dallas Cowboys, and Goldman Sachs, allegedly pockets the 20 percent service fee attached to food and drink in violation of New York law, according to a class-action lawsuit filed against the company by three Yankee Stadium servers this week. If certified as class action, the suit could involve more than a hundred servers and hundreds of thousands of dollars in claims.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/13/yankee-stadium-tips_n_861770.html

[HopeHoops]

1. $12.60 for a plastic cup filled with piss-water? Fuck THAT noise.

[xchrom]

2. Recommend

[MadHound]

3. That's why they designed hip flasks,

So that you don't have to be a victim of such outrageous pricing.

Besides, at a football game, on a cool fall afternoon, apricot brandy is much better than cold beer.

[Atman]

4. Are you fucking kidding me? $12.60 for a bad beer?

I admit, I paid $51 for a six of Dos Equis once, but it was a business trip and we were trying to land a client...couldn't go back to the room to sign the papers without being able to offer 'em a beer! But $12.50 for a shitty draft? On top of the ticket prices? And they wonder why people don't go to games anymore. Sheesh.

[FSogol]

5. Those aren't the prices for the Plebs, those are the $400 seats. n/t

[reggie the dog]

6. i would prefer to pay 10 dollars for a dime bag of weed