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> Welcome to the terrible world of tipping. While I agree, I remember bartenders making $10/hr + tips when I worked in a restaurant... in 1998. I could make $1
by dls2016 5y ago
> Welcome to the terrible world of tipping.
While I agree, I remember bartenders making $10/hr + tips when I worked in a restaurant... in 1998. I could make $10/hr washing dishes (always the most hard-to-staff position) but wouldn't do so until after the restaurant died down because I made more busing tables with tips.
Let's just call this type of employment what it is: wage slavery. People are used to there being a class of people willing to take these jobs.
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- bluedino 5y ago> in 1998. I could make $10/hr washing dishes Most dishwashers were only making minimum wage back then ($4.25 in my state)
- kickout 5y agoNo way anyone outside of LA/SF/NYC were paying dishwashers 10+. I made 5.25 (i think) around that time period (98-00) washing dishes. It sucked ass
- dls2016 5y agoCentral PA, it was a busy restaurant next to Hershey Park. I believe dishwashers started at $7.50 or $8... but on a busy Saturday night the managers would have to go around begging someone wash dishes. I doubt they would've let me work full time at that rate, but they let me clock in/out to my advantage when they needed it. Hosts/busers started around $5.25 or so... I think I eventually worked it up to $7.50 or so, but with tips it was much more. My point is that even then it wasn't worth it to me to work for $10/hr. If I had to guess, the wages probably aren't much more now than they were then.