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A tweet saying "100k a year to take someone's order at Taco Bell . 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
7.25, including tips.
Usually with tips it's like $2.13 or something. For wait staff that gets tips they're allowed to be paid less hourly. Their total pay for the day still has to be at least the federal minimum wage though.
Tips are so weird.
They're weird because of the Jim Crow South. Ain't that fun? Go on, dig into it. I'll wait here in Jim Crow 2: Electric Boogaloo
Which, by the way, was the whole point of the Boogaloo Boys. Yall remember the fascists in Hawaiian shirts? Yeah. This has been planned for a while.
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…
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
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.