Posted on 03/24/2019 9:23:48 AM PDT by reaganaut1
For more than a year, a group of Hollywood actresses waving the banner of the Time’s Up movement have been pressing Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to apply New York’s minimum wage to workers who earn tips, arguing that it would make waitresses less vulnerable to sexual harassment.
Among the celebrities weighing in are Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Williams, Amy Poehler and Amy Schumer.
Not surprisingly, the restaurant industry is pushing back, saying the proposed change would spell doom for many businesses.
But it has also created an unexpected divide: Waitresses and other servers are resisting the proposal, saying they can make more money from tips and do not need celebrities to help protect them from harassment.
Harassment is a real concern, they say, but so is the need to earn a living.
“The resounding message from servers in New York to these actresses in Hollywood is to just leave us alone,” said Maggie Raczynski, a bartender at an Outback Steakhouse in upstate New York. “These celebrities have literally no idea. I feel like they need to butt out.”
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In New York City, many servers at busy restaurants and bars earn more than enough in tips to push their hourly wage well above the $15 minimum. “The best-paid people in the restaurant are the servers and the bartenders,” said Jeremy Merrin, the owner of four Havana Central restaurants, including one in Times Square. “My servers make well in excess of $20 an hour.”
Tending tables or mixing drinks has traditionally been a reliable means of survival for aspiring actors and actresses or a steady way to pay the bills between gigs. Raising wages for tipped workers, many waitresses say, could threaten an economic lifesaver if it forces restaurants to change tipping policies or, worse, puts them out of business.
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The vast majority of restaurant customers do not think tipping a waitress gives you the right to molest her.
The left makes all kinds of people into PETS. So they can “rescue” them. Good pets permit the rescue.
BAD PETS DO NOT.
And you do NOT want to go and be a bad pet, oh no, BELIEVE me, you do not.
the ones that need the income boost are those working fast food/etc...where there are no tips....
What makes these ungrateful waitresses think they should be allowed to decide for themselves when they’re better off? Don’t they realize that celebrities should have the final say regarding their welfare?
How did the chicks who got famous in Hollywood pull that off..?
By pulling it off.
Yet THEY are saving waitresses...?
THAT is pretty rich.
Encapsulates modern liberalism in a nutshell; a person who knows nothing but insists on butting in to control everything.
I have no interest in being served by robots, or paying too much for a meal.
Socialism.
Ruins everything, including the livelihoods of food service employees (who need the work.)
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But don’t you know, when those restaurants go out of business or turn to robot servers, that will free all of those waiters and waitresses from the drudgery of work and allow them to pursue their artistic passions without care? I know this because AOC said so.
And that’s it... They are in a perpetual compulsive state of “protection activism”, and if they can’t find a legitimate cause they have to invent a cause wanted or not.
As you know, awhile back they used to be called bleeding heart liberals just for this reason.
Shut up and let the Virtue soapbox
Ok. Pay them minimum wage, but turn all tips into the restaurant owner.
If someone did the math and assume waiters got zero in wages and only got tips then assumed they waited on 5 tables an hour for an average tip of $5; they would earn $25 an hour and be taxed on about $5 of that. Now add the $6-12 most make in wages and it’s easy to see waiters/waitresses actually earn a good living wage. Figure any waiter or bartender can make $200-$300 per shift. Not bad at all. Some make it a career.
Of course a boring slow place won’t be that much so no sense staying at a place like that for the young. Leave them for the older ones who are okay with that pace and income.
Let's expand that scenario.
Five dollar tips are for the common restaurant where a salad, entrée, and drinks for two totals $35. That's a TGI Fridays, a Denny's, an Olive Garden.
For a career, one hopes to grow to be able to wait at a steakhouse or seafood restaurant where the entrees are $25 instead of $12. Drinks are beer and wine by the glass instead of ice tea and cola. Tips are $10.
Those people want to grow to wait at premier restaurants like Ruth's Chris or Morton's or Flemings where the entrees are $50, the sides are a la carte at $15 each, and the wine is by the $50 bottle. Tips here are $50 or more.
Sadly, most people who wait get stuck at the $10 level.
-PJ
Good wait staff can make very good money from tips...we tip 20% and do it in cash instead of adding it to the credit card....the “do-gooders” are intent on cutting their net and raising their taxes...while saying they’re from the government and they’re here to help....
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