and her taxes will go up since she doesn't claim all those tips
Posted on 08/03/2018 2:14:31 PM PDT by EveningStar
Union protestors and celebrity advocates have decided that waiters' tips aren't big enough...
As usual, those who want the government to decide that workers must be paid more insist that "women and minorities" are hurt by the market.
But waitress Alcieli Felipe is a minority and a woman. She says the celebrities and politicians should butt out.
Thanks to tips, Felipe says in my new internet video, she makes "$25 an hour. By the end of the year, $48,000 to $50,000."
She understands that if government raises the minimum, "It'll be harder for restaurants to keep the same amount of employees... (T)he busboy will be cut."
She's right...
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
No, they’ll quit.
When I was young I made incredible tips working as a waitress at a hotel in NYC - the Hilton. It wasn’t for me (too small, too thin to hoist those plates!) but I brought home 200-300 dollars at night and this was the 1980s.
The waiters hate this minimum wage or living wage crap.
In the end, it’s service that will suffer. The best servers make the best tips and the crappy ones are quickly weeded out. If there is a guaranteed wage of $12 an hour, the good ones will immediately see that their efforts gain them nothing over the slow, forgetful, and sullen servers.
Look up “socialism”.
As an example of the opposite, a certain extremely rich professional athlete who recently took a job in LA very early in his career left something like a $3 tip on a $3 k tab. Fine for the restaurant owner, but the wait staff worked their @$$es off for a 0.1% tip. Naturally, this same LeBozo is an outspoken Democrat.
The tipping scene from “Reservoir Dogs” sums up my feelings on the subject.
The wages went up with the idiots in my state voted for it. It did nothing for anyone but did hurt the fixed income earners who can no longer afford to go out to a restaurant to eat because the restaurant had to raise their prices to pay their help more. The other option is to not tip but it doesn’t really make up for the raise in prices.
If minimum wage goes to $15 an hour for wait staff, you’ll see less than half the wait staff you see now and you’ll see them in a panic to get people waited on...
Or you’ll see a lackadaisical wait staff who don’t care anymore...
This is the ONLY COUNTRY in the world with tipping at this level. In fact, most countries have no tipping.
I’ll take my chances in joining the ‘world community’, in this regard...and since they now have a ‘living wage’, they’ll be JUST FINE without the tips.
I stopped dining out with my family because the service sucks.
I can’t go to a restaurant with my kids and expect the food to arrive warm, or the server to be anywhere in sight after it has been. The only exception to this is the Olive Garden.
That's why they'll still want tips on top of it.
Tough. Tech jobs have been outsourced for a generation and none of them felt guilty about getting ‘cheap’ tech.
$25 to carry food seems outrageous.
And I hear that in Aspen they are bringing in low cost eastern european white people for service industry jobs.
This is all about raising the minimum wage and unionizing the service workforce. Currently, unions have no way to get a slice of tipped income. If they do away with tipping, then they can get a slice of the $15 hour wage.
Last time we did that and left a tip, we couldn’t find a clean table and ended up cleaning it ourselves. Also, the food took 20+ minutes to arrive and someone ordering a similar item minutes after us got her omelette first.
Not again with me.
I always tip servers generously, even if they give lousy service.
People are not going to tip if waiters are paid a wage. You have a couple of people here already saying they won’t tip. You don’t like waiters?? Is that some new conservative talking point?
Tipping is why we have the best service in restaurants in the entire world or maybe you haven’t noticed?
and her taxes will go up since she doesn't claim all those tips
I like tipping. Every server can be his/her own entrepreneur. I frequent a few restaurants regularly. They know me by name. They’re always happy to see me. Service is usually prompt, pleasant, and accurate. Servers are solicitous. And I try to tip generously for the pleasant afternoon, or evening that I visit with them.
Waiting tables isn’t especially intrinsically interesting, easy, or physically pleasant. But having nice, pleasant patrons who appreciate you in word and tip can make it a worthwhile job, whether short-term or long-term.
Just had lunch at a nice place that added a “living wage charge” on our bill...left note saying...”no tip on taxes or living wage charge”...
I made $150 on a good night waiting tables in college at a mediocre seafood place in Tennessee in the 1990s.
That was the hardest job I’ve ever worked.
I washed dishes at an Italian restaurant in high school. Hard job at the time but waiting tables was harder. My current engineering job is easy compared to waiting tables.
Nowadays I tip at least twenty percent. I don’t care how bad the service is. Those people are working their asses off and I’m happy to compensate them.
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