• Sprawlie@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I have no easy solutions.

    There’s an easy one that could be legislated tomorrow by any states.

    Raise minimum wages and enforce it throughout ALL workplaces, including wait staff. Nobody should be earning less than a living wage just because they’re restaraunt staff.

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      9 months ago

      Nobody would work in a restaurant for minimum wage. Full stop. It’s a shit job.

      That’s the secret nobody in the industry wants to tell you. They make way more than minimum wage on good nights. You could come away at $25-30/hr on a Friday night.

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        9 months ago

        Absolutely. it’s a bad precedent.

        Minimum wage staff still get tips though. I still tip here now that it’s mandatory they get paid min wage. Overall, means that they make more than before they were earning min wage as well.

        it’s a big win. They ge ta living wage doing their jobs and they get bonuses in tips on top of their living wage instead of relying upon it.

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      9 months ago

      Politics is one of those things that’s easy when you say it, but much harder for you to do. But if that’s easy for you to do, then please do it, for all our sakes.

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      9 months ago

      Seattle’s minimum wage is $16.28, but most restaurants seem to pay a fair bit more than that. Tipping is still rampant and has not been reduced. I don’t think this solution would work