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(2022)
by cibyr 3y ago
(2022)
- fishtacos 3y agoTX still pays 2.13/h for wait staff + tips, with a guarantee of bi-weekly guarantee of 7.35/h if tips don't make up for it. 2023 is still the same.
- tomrod 3y agoTexas (and other places) gets a lot of labor complaints too for stiffing this. https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-from-workers-paychecks-each-year/ https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-fro...
- fishtacos 3y agoI waited tables before, during and slighly after college, in TX. This was well-known, but am glad it's at least reported, even if not addressed. The entitled replies here are embarrassing.
- tomrod 3y agoFor me, I'm antitipping culture, but realize the only way it changes is when the servers, line cooks, cashiers, and hostesses as a working class group get fed up and demand better. Until then, it's a revolving door, and vested interests target to make customers and wait staff angry at each other.
- fishtacos 3y agoCorrect - this rests on employers, but for those dependent on employers for a job with no say but "GTFO if you don't like it" will blame whomever is stiffling their wages - in this case, crappy tippers IN ADDITION TO the minimum wage. However, given the spurious type of work this involves, employers have the advantage, so the employees have no recourse but to blame any one they can, including bad tippers. The tipping culture in the US is disgusting by modern standards of society, but there is no mechanism to unionize wait staff, or kitchen staff, dishwashers etc. included.
- slackito 3y ago> there is no mechanism to unionize wait staff, or kitchen staff, dishwashers etc. included There is, however, a "union" of restaurant owners who lobbies against improving minimum wage and working conditions for restaurant workers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Restaurant_Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Restaurant_Associatio...
- fishtacos 3y agoHow well has that worked out?