Posted on 10/07/2023 4:51:02 AM PDT by Salman
Chicago on Friday became the largest American city to independently require that tipped employees make a full minimum wage, following a relatively easy City Council vote that delivered one of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s biggest political wins for his progressive agenda.
In a 36-10 vote, aldermen approved the measure that advocates said was direly needed for the lowest-paid service workers and that opponents countered would backfire, causing some employees in the service industry to be paid less and lead to higher menu prices and staff cuts. The ordinance becomes law immediately but the full impact won’t take effect for five years.
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The work performed by most waitresses is worth them being paid a minimum wage - IMHO. A problem with tipping is that the amount can vary greatly depending on the restaurant and/or the customer. Think of the waitress getting paid $7/hour who serves a party of 8 giving them a great amount of her time - and then gets no tip or a miniscule 1%.
Possibly a better law would be to require the customer to pay a 15% tip with the option of increasing that amount.
“The laborer deserves his wages.” - 1 Timothy 5:18
BTTT
They are trying to drive all legimate businesses out of Chicago. The more of these they drive out, the more the inmates will control the asylum.
also = topped up to make $2/person
“ It’s like they sit up at night fretting over a dishwasher could be, somewhere making $20.00/hr.”
I doubt anyone cares what a dishwasher is paid except the dishwasher. If I eat in a restaurant, I hope he did a good job. Frankly, I hate tipping. Just pay the employee.
In the 80’s I worked for $2.50 p/h plus tips which was sub min wage, but worked out to more with the tips. That was back when a 1 bedroom apartment went for about $200-$300 a month. It was pretty good pay back then
“The work performed by most waitresses is worth them being paid a minimum wage - IMHO. A problem with tipping is that the amount can vary greatly depending on the restaurant and/or the customer. Think of the waitress getting paid $7/hour who serves a party of 8 giving them a great amount of her time - and then gets no tip or a miniscule 1%.”
I’ve worked as a waiter for a few weeks.
Most people tip decently - my tips averaged about 12%.
Unfortunately, weekday lunch hours and dinner hours are too short to make a decent living. It takes working weekends to make it as a waiter.
Restaurants are the worst employers in my opinion.
“Chicago becomes largest US city to independently abolish subminimum wage for tipped workers”
That makes us even, I’ve already abolished my tipping for ‘tipped workers’, except in rare cases (where I expect to go back to the joint).
“Tipping was always 10%. Then suddenly 20%. A fifth of the invoice. What a rip off.”
For most of my 64 years the proper tip for good service was 15%.
For low priced meals and extraordinary service, I would pay 20%
If the service was substandard, I would pay about 12%.
I always felt that republicans should tip at 20%-easy to calculate. Do it just in September during an election year. The GOP POTUS nominee should present it as marching orders in his speech at the convention. Have the customer circle the tip amount. Then he can call out the rats. Insist they tip at 25% for that month since they’re the ones who claim to be for the working man. Restaurant employees will see the difference and the public will know when it comes time to vote.
Would the rats be as generous when it comes to their own money?
I’m certain the Mayor Johnson had great empathy for lazy ass employees that do a poor job and don’t get paid as much has high achievers, whether it’s via tips, hourly wages or salary. He looks into the mirror every day and sees a low achiever. He never built a damn thing in his life and has always received his pay from government. Most of his life he was a teacher. That speaks volumes. Teachers are some of the least educated, most highly indoctrinated, lowest intelligent and laziest employees in America. Nearly all of those groomers need to be fired or receive substantial pay cuts to align with their competency.
It's an intimidation factor. I always hit no tip.
Have you run into any point of service terminals that have been programmed to require you to select a tip percentage? Even if the sale is an over the counter transaction and no wait person was involved, the terminal forces you to select a tip percentage. The more friendly units offer a 0% tip option but many do not.
There was a small blurb about this on TV a while back. They featured a sole proprietor that sold merchandise over the counter only. The business had a machine with no 0% tip option. When confronted with being forced to add 10, 15, or 20% to the sale amount, his answer was that he was entitled to it for various reasons, cost of raw material, taxes, rent, etc. He obviously had no training on how to compute a selling price after factoring in fixed and estimated variable costs. Hopefully he wasn’t a Wharton Business grad.
Yeah, unintended consequences and all that.
when you pay for your meal you are paying for the product...when you tip you are paying for the labor.
My thoughts exactly, from first job as busboy at a golf course country club.
Whenever Socialist Democrats do something to ‘help’ those they perceive to be ‘in need,’ the opposite will happen.
Count on it. :(
Only idiot democrats live in big cities.
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