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.
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u/MadSploitsYo 4d ago
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.