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You can thank "the other NRA" for many of the problems in food wages. http://rocunited.org/the-other-nra-unmasking-the-agenda-of-the-national-restaurant-associ
by SixSigma 10y ago
You can thank "the other NRA" for many of the problems in food wages.
http://rocunited.org/the-other-nra-unmasking-the-agenda-of-the-national-restaurant-association/ http://rocunited.org/the-other-nra-unmasking-the-agenda-of-t...
They have lobbied hard to keep FOH staff wages down (up to 3x less than ROH) supplemented by tipping.
The driving force for this is that your wage bill is not as strongly correlated with demand - no customers means no tips so your FOH staff pay the price for your poor management.
- harryh 10y agoWhen I said "they think the salary ratios between FOH and BOH staff are off" I was indicating that they think that FOH is overpaid relative to BOH. That is not inconsistent with lobbying to keep FOH pre-tip wages down. I don't think this is an industry conspiracy so much as a particularly challenging market. The consumer is a vicious seeker of value. This depresses wages and also makes it so that restaurants aren't particularly profitable enterprises(1). 1. http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-thrill-of-losing-money-by-investing-in-a-manhattan-restaurant http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-thrill-of-los...