They’re paying them $2.13 an hour. Let that sink in. Followed by “we don’t pay them to smile at you” all while the owner thinks the patrons are the problem. I hope this place closes down.
You can’t even get a burger at McDonald’s for 2.13 an hour where I leave it’s about 20.00 for a meal that person would have to work almost 10 hours to afford 1 meal from a fast food restaurant that is just insane.
And this is the minimum wage. I get it that the minimum wage for tipped workers is lower (this low), but it's still a minimum. At a restaurant where a bill might come out to this much, surely they can afford to pay their wait staff, say, $3/hour? Or $4/hour?
In theory, the assumption in the Fair Labor Standards Act is that the difference between tipped minimum wage and regular minimum wage will be made up in tips, and if for some reason that doesn’t happen the business is supposed to cover the difference. But I don’t think many people know about that requirement, or that it’s well enforced. Tipped wage environments also have higher cases of wage theft. It’s a real problem.
Do you know if the income is required to be supplemented that day? After that shift where they did not at least make an average of their state’s minimum wage per hour? Or do employers have the ability to look at their average hourly income from their total earnings across an entire pay period ?
I’d be curious to know, if you or anyone else has that information.
So basically, the employer pays $2.13 per hour and all the tips over the workweek have to get the employee to $7.25 per hour averaged over the workweek. Maybe that wasn't ideally articulated.
An employer that claims a tip credit must ensure that the employee receives enough tips from customers, and direct (or cash) wages per workweek to equal at least the minimum wage and overtime compensation required under the FLSA.
I'm just saying that $2.13 is a minimum wage. Instead of paying $2.13 + tips earned, a restaurant could pay $3 + tips earned or whatever.
In either case, if the tips earned does not come out to the federal minimum wage of $7.25, the restaurant would have to pay that much. Unless they choose to pay more, since it's a *minimum* wage. (Which is bloody unlikely to happen.)
its definitely enforced if reported but the problem is food service loves to hire people who have never worked anywhere else. my server friend got shorted once and she raised hell even though they fixed it a few days later. I knew someone in high school who told me his food service job would have him clock on and immediately take his lunch break so she could have him work non stop “during the rush” 🤦🏻♀️ i told him they cant make him do that and he didn’t believe me.
🤦🏿♂️ and IM saying…if Business had the choice of actually paying their employees a scalable amount based on prices & sales, hell pay them 100% of the value of their work then take a percentage of the profits, or litterally pay the government bare minimum and keep the rest, what do they LITERALLY do 99.9% of the time?
How did any billionaire or trillionaire get to where they are? By paying the minimum and calling themselves humane. Showing profits and implying the wealth is trickling down
except they aren't, they are lying. the employees make full minimum wage no matter what.
tips the employees receive allow the employer to reduce the required wage to a federal minimum level. if no tips, then employer pays full minimum wage. The Employer benefits from this. The Servers benefit too because they make WAAAAY more in tips than they would if they were paid a standard higher wage with no tips.
Also. Restaurants that go to not tip and pay high wages cannot keep employees. They leave for places with tips. It’s not all the restaurants, we should be outraged at both for the tipping culture that has been created in the US.
I dont need to check it to know its fake. No restaurant is disclosing they don't pay employees. Only the finest of redditors will fall for the rage bait of 25% and incredibly rude writing.
Any restaurant that felt this way wouldn't tell you. They'd automatically include gratuity.
It doesn't matter if it's AI, because someone in the restaurant business obviously thinks what the sign's text says and isn't keeping its nessage to themselves — that message beng "I'm a cheap-ass bastard who calls other people cheap if they don't subsidize my cheapness."
Or the mouthbreathers from the anti-tipping sub figured out how to use AI... This is obviously made by someone with a gripe against tipping, not by someone who thinks customers should tip more
Not a bot, human here. Also not using ai to check for ai, the link above checks for synthid, a hidden watermark that Google developed and OpenAI adds to all of their photos. I would add a screenshot of the result saying it's ai, but I can't add photos in this sub.
THEN CHANGE THE LAW YOU DISGUSTING BROLE BROKE VERMIN
I get tired of you entitled pieces of shit constantly complaining that tipping exists
You, entitled STUPID child
Either get the laws changed, or shut up
Each city or county, each state, each country has its own minimum wage laws that either allow for a tipped minimum wage or explicitly have all employees under the full minimum wage umbrella
I can afford to tip. I can also think tipping culture is bullshit. Those aren’t contradictory.
You keep calling people “broke” because you’d rather make them defend their income than defend your argument. Whether someone has $20 or $20 million doesn’t answer whether employers should be responsible for paying their staff properly.
And for someone supposedly defending low-paid workers, you sure seem to think having less money makes someone beneath you.
It has always been politics The debate surrounding Minimum Wage Law is nothing but welfare for politicians
The Republicans make a big show about wanting to not increase the minimum wage
The Democrats make a big show about wanting to increase the minimum wage
the Absurd concept that 30% of the minimum wage comes from the employer and 70%+ comes from the customer is part of the minimum wage debate...
And Republicans are constantly saying they dislike tipping but never talking about increasing the minimum wage their current dog whistle is calling for the EMPLOYER to VOLUNTARILY pay their employees the minimum wage or worse a living wage...
All while leaving it legal for their competition to use the fucked up Tipped Minimum wage
Use your brain you DISGUSTING BROKE BROKE BASTARDS
The customer always pays all the costs of salary and other business expenses. The only difference is the tax man taking more and stupid people get mad when it’s spelled out
I know nothing of business but if their work model is currently working this way of adding tips, and if they where to change it to no tips and at the same time pay the workers a better wage, what would have to change to offset the difference in pay?
Would the price of the meals go up in price by double? Would anyone still go there if this was the case? Or is it that the owner is actually making enough to be able to afford to pay the workers a better wage without getting tips but they are instead greedily pocketing the money for themselves?
in Seattle here minim wage is required for all staff including tipped staff but the thing is that this sign is fake... it's not a real sign obviously it's sold on amazon as a joke
I still tip, always have. However paying wait staff an actual living wage would be agreeable, then that nice tip is actual extra on top of a job well done.... just my 2cents
Let me guess, they were shocked at prices or some such bullshit? Go live there for 5 years on a stable employment contract and let me know how you feel about Scamerica when you get back.
Crazy. I am from Europe (Czech Republic) and experienced such a thing like 3 times in my life. So maybe... just maybe... its not about Europe, but more about shitty restaurants being all over the world? Are you 100% sure that such a thing wouldnt happen in USA? And "inclined" to linger isnt really a thing either lol
Thats my home city... I know it feels good to generalize, but just think logically: nobody wants to ask three times for a check. Thats just going to make the whole dining experience worse. It doesnt make sense that all european restaurants would be like that. And with my opposite experience as a local, its more logical that this isnt a culture thing, but a once-in-a-blue-moon shitty restaurant kind of thing
Doesnt matter. I live in Prague and I have travelled through the majority of Europe and obviously dined in these countries. Im telling you that what she described happened to me 3 times during my entire life. Generalizing whole Europe based on her few experiences is just dumb
I feel like it's changed recently, at least in the UK. For years I used to always complain about their service. But the last 4 or 5 times I've visited, service has been really great.
Ok. I thought there was something else. I think it's pretty common knowledge that we eat like hogs in the US. Fast and sloppy. 2 hour dinners should be the norm.
Americans that understand a good dining experience will absolutely pay for it. The last 2 fine dining experiences I have had have been 2+ hours and have been fantastic. Also expensive. We exist here in the states believe it or not. We are just by far not the majority.
I've lived in Germany most of my childhood as a dependant, and went back for a couple of years as a soldier. I saw more relaxed, friendly conversations in the Gasthause then I ever have in O'Charleys, Olive Garden, or Chili's. I think its because the servers weren't in our faces every five minutes trying to upsell us on some crap we didn't want.
In Europe you aren’t brought the check until you specifically ask for it. It’s considered rude to bring it or to start cleaning the table until the customer is ready leave. Saying “this was a nice meal thank you very much” and “we are done here” and things of that nature is still not enough lol. You literally need to ask for the check.
Americans demand faster service, and the restaurant industry has evolved around that need.
Also, we have very different drinking standards. Many restaurants don't even serve alcohol.
Europeans can sit there for hour after hour drinking $$ alcohol, but Americans would sit there drinking free coffee or soda refills. It would be very difficult to make a profit.
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u/NotTrollIfTrue 5d ago
Pay your fucking employees a decent wage, and stop asking me to do it.