Ya know, if you give really good service at a restaurant you can make a killing as a server/bartender. But if you just want to do mediocre work, I guess $20/hr at fast food sounds enticing
Kitchen staff being the exception, but I dunno what they're referencing because the article is hidden behind a paywall
paying your bills and feeding your family shouldnt' be dependent on fucking tips. People regularly don't tip just because they are dumb fuck lead poisoned assholes.
Yeah I get where you're coming from, but when you have nights that you pull in $500+ in tips (plus minimum wage), you don't really want to have to go back to minimum wage + nothing. Even with the gamble of the odd asshole not paying.
Not having a cap on how much you can make that's not based on time, is huge.
but when you have nights that you pull in $500+ in tips
this option is only available to extremely young, attractive, outgoing, neurotypical, socially skilled individuals. why exactly should only they get a living wage?
That's not true, I've worked with some train wrecks that kill it. Some are old, some are ugly, and many can really only put on a happy face for 10 seconds at a time.
The majority of the population is neurotypical, it's a stretch to re-structure the whole system for a very small percentage of folks who aren't. I'd even be willing to guess that many of those people probably don't even want a customer facing job if their social skills are a dumpster fire. Alternatively, these kinds of jobs are good at making you better, social skills wise.
But if you really don't like any aspect of what you're doing, you're not going to do it well, doesn't really matter who you are
If we're mincing words here, do you think the hard working neurotypical servers should step back so non-neurotypical or poor social skill folks can work in their place instead?
Why are all libs also transphobes? Their pronouns are right there, yet you misgender them anyway.
I'll say it again: Your parents failed in raising you
I'm talking about saying they are your brother you fucking dolt. Funny thing is I knew you would try to do this dumbass obtuse-act. It's incredible how you types are like kindergarten children.
"No you are the lib" lmao, are you actually in kindergarten ? Bigotry is the issue at hand when it is present. You misgendering a comrade makes it present. I know you guys have a hard time comprehending this, but politics isn't aesthetics.
Employers who pay their employees less than a living wage absolutely deserve to get the most mediocre work possible from their employees. If you want to pay someone $10 an hour and schedule them 30 hours a week so they don't get benefits then don't come whining when they don't give a fuck about your shitty business.
If you want exceptional work then pay exceptional wages.
Servers are only about 20-30% of staffing so I'm not sure what your point is here other than to imply people working in fast food are lazy and if they were on that grind set they would just mosey on over to a 4 star restaurant that definitely doesn't require 5 years experience serving at another 4 star restaurant.
People working fast food work way harder than servers or bartenders and they also work way harder than cooks in a sit down place, all of those people work really fucking hard, I'm a cook, I know, but the average McDonalds employee is all three at once and the volume is at a level I can't even understand dealing with. There isnt a decent chef on earth who would say they work harder thsn a fast food worker, I've done fine to high midscale my whole time along with extremely fancy catering and everyone doing that stuff even respects the absolute hell out of fast food workers. As I posted above, I'd rather teach a fast food worker how to cook good good than tracj a fresh culinary student how to handle a busy service.
Damn, he got removed by mod before I went the absolute fuck off on this idiot. I work high end stuff and have been blessed to never have had to work fast food and can very reasonably say those people work SO much harder than we do and we work really really hard. I couldn't do it and no one should even have to, those conditions are nuts and kitchens aren't a ballpark to begin with. If there's a fast food gig on your resume I take it as a huge plus, if you can handle that, the stress aspect is already handled and the rest is learning how to cook. I've met plenty of people thst did culinary school before working any kitchen jobs and someone who is pure theory and full of themselves is way worse thsn someone who had grinded it out before but needs to learn how to food. Teaching people how to cook is esybessier thsn teaching people how to deal with kitchen bullshit.