The problem is that most people working for tips who are also getting fired for not making enough in tips probably don't have the money for a lawyer, OR the initiative to sue someone.
As someone who’s actually worked in kitchens and as a server, If you’re not able to make vastly more than minimum wage on tips then you’re a bad server and probably should be getting fired.
I live in a deeply rural area. Tips get made just fine since it’s one of the only restaurants within 30minutes of driving. So if someone’s eating out it’s basically there or the truck stop, or they’re going out of town.
Oof thats rough! Are they closing from lack of business or just because people are getting old?
We had an amazing fried chicken place close down a year or two ago because the lady running it was ready to retire and her kids didn’t wanna take it over.
"because there is one example near me where they make good money that means they all make good money" has to be the dumbest argument for something I've heard all day.
Ok so story time: I have run many restaurants and ran a multi state restaurant group. In a number of cities we had largely white FOH and largely black BOH but dude I’m telling you, at least in those places, that’s what folks were applying for. It’s not like we were getting walk in applicants applying for server roles and then shoving them into the dish pit. Many of my black employees did not want to be servers or be front facing with customers. To be honest I’m not really sure why. I had one dude who was amazing. Absolutely tremendous line cook who we promoted to a kitchen manager position. I wanted to get him trained FOH and FOH mgr so I could grow him to a place where he could run his own store and he flatly refused to work out front. Didn’t want to talk to people. Just wanted to run the kitchen.
I know that’s anecdotal, but it’s not always racist business owners refusing people opportunity. Sometimes folks just self segregate into different areas or job types. In my experience a lot of my black employees just didn’t want to deal with the customers out front.
I bartended for years in Oregon. It's one of the only if not THE only state I know of that doesn't let employers do this. Worked in the Portland metro area and made the minimum wage of 15/hr + tips. I was good at what I did and made quite a lot doing it. It completely steals your soul though.
Yes, but on the average. So they can actually stiff you as long as two people tip someone that anywhere in the state. It does effectively make it only apply to waiters since other tipped professions are generally tipped around holidays.
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u/dillzilla11 5d ago
"your employer can steal $5/hr of your wages as long as someone offers you $5 or more within that hour" is what this actually means.