Restaurants Paying $2.13 Per Hour Isn't A Living Wage

[Independentthinker]

Or, is it?

I'm so damn sick and tired of leftists complaining about restaurant's tip wages and the poor things haven't gotten a raise to that base in years and how that is peanuts to live on. I was a manager at Pizza Hut eons ago and most of the full time waitresses made more money than I did.

Hooters waitress reveals how much she makes in tips, with one shift netting her as much as $408 on top of her $2.13 hourly wage

Kirsten Songer, who works at Hooters, used a TikTok video to discuss the tips she earns on top of her hourly wage of $2.13.

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[Meister]

Fully agree

 

[JustAGuy1]

Or, is it?

I'm so damn sick and tired of leftists complaining about restaurant's tip wages and the poor things haven't gotten a raise to that base in years and how that is peanuts to live on. I was a manager at Pizza Hut eons ago and most of the full time waitresses made more money than I did.

Hooters waitress reveals how much she makes in tips, with one shift netting her as much as $408 on top of her $2.13 hourly wage

Kirsten Songer, who works at Hooters, used a TikTok video to discuss the tips she earns on top of her hourly wage of $2.13.

www.yahoo.com

A good wait person is worth their weight in gold.

 

[LuckyDuck]

If all food service facilities had to pay their serving staff $15.00 per hour, the public would refrain from going to their facilities due to the risen cost of the food to account for the staff pay increase.

 

[rightwinger]

Restaurants are complaining they can’t get good wait staff

When you are only putting up $2.13 an hour, you have nothing to complain about

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Yeah, when my cousin was going through nursing school at UD she had a job at the Hotel Du Pont working in the bar/restaurant. She was making enough part time to pay for her school, plus living expenses. She made a pittance from salary...like 2 bucks an hour or something. You get a line to an established, high class place and you can make some serious cash.
Way back in the 50's and 60's I had a relative who was head concierge there. He put two kids through college on tips startin as a doorman. My mother was always talking about that.

Tips pay bills. That's why the cocksuckers try to tax them.

 

[rightwinger]

Tips pay bills. That's why the cocksuckers try to tax them.

Tips are income
Income is taxable

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Tips are income
Income is taxable

Said the Socialist.

 

[RodISHI]

Tips also depend upon the location in the country where one is and the quality of the food served. When we first came here I was surprised to learn a few months after being here that there was gossip from a local cafe nearby who was talking about the tips we left because they did not normally get decent tips.


BTW, I was also surprised when we were in Carson City, Nevada when I painted a few windows so we'd have some extra spending money one lady gave me a $100.00 tip on top of the $125.00 I charged to paint her window.

 

[surada]

Or, is it?

I'm so damn sick and tired of leftists complaining about restaurant's tip wages and the poor things haven't gotten a raise to that base in years and how that is peanuts to live on. I was a manager at Pizza Hut eons ago and most of the full time waitresses made more money than I did.

Hooters waitress reveals how much she makes in tips, with one shift netting her as much as $408 on top of her $2.13 hourly wage

Kirsten Songer, who works at Hooters, used a TikTok video to discuss the tips she earns on top of her hourly wage of $2.13.

www.yahoo.com

Patrons can help their favorite wait staff by tipping them in cash. Since last year many restaurants are taking 4% of the tips you put on your debit or credit card to pay for your meal.

I think I am a good tipper... always 20% or I just won't go out to dinner. I really appreciate good service, good food and a friendly face. Hat tip to all the servers out there.

 

[whitehall]

Burger flipping was never intended to be a career option. Get a freaking education or if you are young and independent enough join the military and get a free education. Funny that the same people who complain about low entry level burger flipping wages are stupid enough to support the president's insane agenda of inviting millions of undocumented workers into the U.S. to take those jobs.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Patrons can help their favorite wait staff by tipping them in cash. Since last year many restaurants are taking 4% of the tips you put on your debit or credit card to pay for your meal.

I think I am a good tipper... always 20% or I just won't go out to dinner. I really appreciate good service, good food and a friendly face. Hat tip to all the servers out there.

Not to be rude, but do you really consider 20% to be a good tip?

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Patrons can help their favorite wait staff by tipping them in cash. Since last year many restaurants are taking 4% of the tips you put on your debit or credit card to pay for your meal.

I think I am a good tipper... always 20% or I just won't go out to dinner. I really appreciate good service, good food and a friendly face. Hat tip to all the servers out there.

I tip decently as well. However, I am always mindful to tip 1 cent for poor service. It sends a much clearer message than zero.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Tipping is a pretty crazy thing if you stop and think about it.

If someone tried to start today nobody would think it was a good idea.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Not to be rude, but do you really consider 20% to be a good tip?

20% is perfectly adequate. You don't have to buy them a home. Thus 'tip'.

 

[RodISHI]

Tipping is a pretty crazy thing if you stop and think about it.

If someone tried to start today nobody would think it was a good idea.

Waiting tables is hard work. If people were actually paid by the employer for the work they'd make the same as some construction workers and the cost to eat out would not be affordable to most.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

20% is perfectly adequate. You don't have to buy them a home. Thus 'tip'.

There is a pretty big gap between adequate and good.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Waiting tables is hard work. If people were actually paid by the employer for the work they'd make the same as some construction workers and the cost to eat out would not be affordable to most.

Yet a great many counties do not make their servers rely on it and they still seem to be able to have people in their establishments eating their food.

 

[surada]

Not to be rude, but do you really consider 20% to be a good tip?

Yep, but sometimes I tip 25%.. I would tip more if I could afford it. I am also in my 70s and on a fixed income now. Back in the day I could tip more. I don't take up a lot of table space in the evening. These days its a late lunch.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

There is a pretty big gap between adequate and good.

You do you bud.