• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Weeg, I honestly don’t have a list with wage tables for each restaurant that I visit.

    Don’t restaurants have to obey minimum wages? If they do, the waiters earn just like everyone else. If they don’t, then why the f don’t they?

    • phorq@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      In most places wait staff only need to be paid the minimum wage if their next-to-nothing wage plus tips doesn’t exceed minimum wage.

        • Jackie's Fridge@lemmy.world
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          11 months ago

          The issue is: why are restaurants not paying their staff “proper” wages? Why are they the outlier, subsidised by customers?

          If I eat at a restaurant, I already know I need to tip to make up the embarrassing gap between what the restaurant pays them and what a proper wage would be. Just raise your stupid prices to account for that and let me not do math after I eat.

          But no, the Great Unwashed love a good illusion, so posting the actual price of a meal will drive them away. Adult society is full of toddlers.

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          11 months ago

          If you say it’s not your problem and still go out to eat you’re a dick and you’re full of shit.