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Originally Posted by blahblah454
wait... what the hell? Where do you live? The lowest wage I have ever heard a waiter making here is around $8/hour (in the last 2 years) at a shitty restaurant. People who work at nice restaurants make about $12+/hour. Plus tips on top of that. Lets put it this way, I know a guy who was a welder making about $20 an hour and he quit to become a waiter. He made the same amount of money overall being a waiter and he met lots of girls who he then slept with. He worked at Boston Pizza, thats just your average joe restaurant.
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Thats a United States of America standard set Federal Government rate.
Many employers use it because they can pay bottom dollar, and earn maximum cash.
Its one of many things that need to be killed.
Raise the prices 15% on all food, so long as the wait staff and bus's get paid more directly from it.
I wont see any difference since I pay that on the min, just the assholes out there will be hurt by it.
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Details for my state:
Minimum Wage Rate: $7.15 per hour Effective July 1, 2007. $7.25 per hour Effective July 24, 2009. (Except as Described Below and Within)
Tipped Employees: An employer may pay a minimum of $2.83 per hour to an employee who makes $30.00 per month in tips. The employer must make up the difference if the tips and $2.83 do not meet the regular Pennsylvania minimum wage.
In the end you can now earn minimum wage, but very few ever do. Its easy to make above and beyond min wage as a waiter. You just get the occasional schmuck here and there who feels they don't need to tip.