Re: Stiffing
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as i said, my mom is a waitress. she works weekends at a family restauraunt. she makes $2.15 per hour.
People do realize waitstaff is exempt from minimum wage right?
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Does your mom realize she does not have to be a waitress for a living?
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she actually doesn't. it's kind of embarrassing. we always say "why don't you work in a grocery store and she just drools, stares and mumbles "I iz waitress."
so you'd rather every restaurant add 15-20% to the price of each item so that they could pay a fare wage?
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This would do nothing but lower the average quality of service, so no, I wouldn't like this to happen. However, I would people to understand that if they work a fairly unskilled job, they aren't going to love it and they aren't going to make a lot of money. It sucks, but its the way things are.
It happens to be a bit worse in this situation because a large portion of the waiter/waitress' wage is at the discretion of customers. There are plenty of people out there, that even given very good service, are going to leave little or no tip. Combine this with different personalities, ideas of good service, selfishness, etc. and you have a giant mess.
PS -- 20 years old, spent ~5 years working various positions in both nice/[censored] restaurants.
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