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A tweet saying “100k a year to take someone’s order at Taco Bell <thumbs up emoji>. Totally makes sense.”. It has a reply saying “Where the hell did you get that number? If someone’s working enough hours to make that on $15 an hour, they deserve it. $15 an hour, a person working 40 a week makes $31,200 a year.” the reply has 2 likes.
Apparently
The federal tipping wage is only $2.13. If that plus tips isn’t at least $7.25 then the employer is suppose to bridge the gap. That’s hard to track especially with cash tips so I’m sure you can guess how often that happens…
Wage theft is the largest form of theft in the US. Business owners think it’s abhorrent when they get robbed, so they steal 100x the amount from their employees to make it right. You slap their face, they amputate your limb.
Also, I have seen this happen at multiple chain casual dining restaurants, if you do manage to track it, and they have to make up the difference more than once, they will fire you on the spot. They claim that only bad servers can’t make tips. The fact that this exclusively happened to male servers is not important according to Big Boy.
I know of two restaurants who did this during the pandemic while denying affordable health insurance to their workers.
Yeah I remind people all the time. One of em closed. The other’s still going cause it’s literally the only Indian place in like 50+ miles