In most places wait staff only need to be paid the minimum wage if their next-to-nothing wage plus tips doesn’t exceed minimum wage.
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phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 months agoWeeg, I honestly don’t have a list with wage tables for each restaurant that I visit.
Don’t restaurants have to obey minimum wages? If they do, the waiters earn just like everyone else. If they don’t, then why the f don’t they?
phorq@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
AmosBurton@lemmy.world 4 months ago
[deleted]JackiesFridge@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The issue is: why are restaurants not paying their staff “proper” wages? Why are they the outlier, subsidised by customers?
If I eat at a restaurant, I already know I need to tip to make up the embarrassing gap between what the restaurant pays them and what a proper wage would be. Just raise your stupid prices to account for that and let me not do math after I eat.
But no, the Great Unwashed love a good illusion, so posting the actual price of a meal will drive them away. Adult society is full of toddlers.
frostysauce@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you say it’s not your problem and still go out to eat you’re a dick and you’re full of shit.
CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Where is minimum wage livable?