cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16427488
Waffle House raises worker pay after strikes and pressure from labor organizers
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Wages are guaranteed money. This is good for employees, if no one comes in you still get paid. Sure you might get less tips but at least you know you’ll get a steady paycheck.
They’ll also have an easier time staffing slow hours. No one wants to work a dead shift with a tip allowance.
Before people come in talking about how employers have to make up the difference if tips don’t get them to minimum wage…
That’s based on the entire pay period, not per shift. So if you make decent tips the rest of the period, you’re still being paid below minimum wage at like $3/hr for the slow time.
Exactly right. Server paychecks are barely worth the paper they’re printed on. I served ~25 years ago, when minimum wage was $5.15 per hour in NY. I’ll never forget the weekly paychecks for less than $10 kicking around my place from tip allowance and card advances.
Out of curiosity, to add to my anecdotal evidence archive from server friends, did you declare all of your tips on your taxes? Or did a lot of those cash tips end up being effectively tax free?
Yep. Fewer tips while retaining a living wage should be the goal. Tips remove the burden of the livable wage from the business and place it on the consumer, where it will never be guaranteed. Lots of businesses likely have completely untenable business models if they had to pay fair wages without tips.
Let’s stop having the average person subsidize companies.
Just to have it emphasized.
Unions work. Labour organization is effective.
Waffle House is so good. I feel bad for anyone who doesn’t have it near them
My da loves traveling south specifically for Waffle House and Buckees! We don’t have then in the north/midwest, so he’s always excited to revisit them.
Yep I lived in MN and often found myself craving good Southern food and food spots. Lots of things I liked about the Midwest but the food was not one of them, very bland
Everytime I drive South from Michigan my first stop is at a waffle House in Toledo, OH
They don’t have them where I live so I’ve never been. Do they offer any vegan waffles by chance?
Lol highly doubtful. Its just dank southern breakfast. The unhealthier the better
