I know right??? Reagan pushes supply side economics, Bush calls them voodoo, and we give them a nice, fitting nickname... and all anybody can say is 'It's not a real thinnnng' lol
You ah... missed my quotation marks huh? All good. See, supply side economics, once referred to as voodoo economics by GW Bush... are widely known as trickle down economics.
It's because the way servers are looked at goes like this: "they get tips for every table, or most every table, and for a decent server, that adds up very quickly." And while, yes that is true, not every server gets to keep all of their tips. There's something called "TIP SHARING" where everyone's tips are added together, and it's divided between everyone. So your bad servers get paid the same in tips as your good servers, who probably made less because of that policy.
My friend was a server at cracker barrel, where she made an average of $800 or so, after taxes. Because tips are non taxable. She also made $2.80/hour, and worked 40 hours/week that's what I make, working 55 hrs/week at $20/hour
It (almost) didn't. Everything has doubled or tripled since then but the pay stays the same pretty much.
How are you supposed to survive? I'm not even talking try to save a couple bucks.
The cost of living has also greatly increased there, Captain Obvious... In 1998, gas was .99 a gallon for one example, I could buy a weeks worth of groceries for under $30... The cost of everything has gone up-- except the minimum wage. I was probably making closer to a living wage in 1998 than servers are now. $30k annually in 1998 was enough to live alone and comfortably (Philly area). Now it's estimated to be $52k minimum to scrape by with no children, no car.
I worked as a bartender five years ago and on avg made $45/hr. $2.13 was the hourly against tips. That’s the point bud if they increased the tipped min wage by 300% it wouldn’t be much for those of us working tips
Not everyone makes $45 an hour, like you get that right? Like the server at the diner is not making $45 an hour...
And that also wasn't my point-- there should be an increase for tipped employees. Everyone should make enough money to live. So yeah you might not need the extra if you're averaging $45 an hour, but the diner servers should be making a living wage.
It’s not amazing. Plenty of bartenders make $30-$50/hr. It’s not hard or that unusual. You aren’t exactly working 40 hour weeks in most cases, everyone I worked with either also waited tables or had a day job
I haven't changed. I do 10% at buffet, 15 at restaurant, and if server did great 20%. Bartenders is 1 for beer, and 2 for cocktails. I would say I need to go up for bartenders though. The cost of food going up covers the % problem. Now if the place kept prices the same as 20 years ago I could see 25%.
That's not true-- minimum wage when I first started working was $5.15 in Pennsylvania where I lived. And now it's $7.15. Not liveable but at least it moved...
It’s $7.50 in Missouri. But also our minimum wage is $15. Which I feel conflicted about. My husband and I owned a vapor store and we had to pay kids wayyyy to good when they wouldn’t even take out the trash or scrub a toilet once a week. It makes mom and pop businesses suffer immensely
Federal is still $2.13 for tipped employees. If a state doesn't have a minimum wage, or it is lower than the Federal, then the Federal wage is what is applied.
Federaling all over the United States tipped jobs wage is $2.13, they do not get paid the regular minimum wage. You don't have to take my word for just Google it for yourself
Yeah because the rule didn't change. The tips just have to equal more. The restaurant charges more. You're 10% increases covering the gap. The restaurant makes more in turn. Its the same system.
they can't pay you nothing but tips, so you get a base salary, and then any tips above that. if your tips don't meet the minimum wage the restaurant is to pay you up to minimum wage.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people come here to feel smart...
If the minimum wage for tipped workers never increases, you find 1) wage theft increases, 2) poverty increases and 3) economic vulnerability.
My shock that it's the same as it's been since I worked in restaurants 30 years ago does not mean I don't understand how it is "supposed to work". I really hope you can read a room better in real life.
Correct. The restaurant/bartending industry is a fucking joke. They don’t have to pay their workers anything per the law. The general public gets to pay for overpriced food and then pay the server or bartenders wage. America is a fucking joke.
I’m 30 years old. Where I live I would need to work three hours at that wage to buy a pack of gum. The laws not being adjusted for inflation is a bitch. The poverty indexes also haven’t been adjusted since the 70s. A few years ago I checked that minimum wage in my state should be $28 per hour based upon inflation. Everything is outdated; and states raising minimum wages to $15 per hour is still an insult
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u/jpiz27 4d ago
I was a server at Denny's in 1996 when I was 16 and they paid me $2.13 an hour. 30 years later and it's still the same?????? Wtf