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New York Restaurants Starting To Demand 30% Tip
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 846701:MV8xOTk1MDQyXzMzNTE5NDE1X0E0QUREMjZC] [quote:Anonymous Coward 24106062:MV8xOTk1MDQyXzMzNTE2NTgwXzVDQTRFN0ND] [quote:Itamoo:MV8xOTk1MDQyXzMzNTE2NDg1XzJEMEM3OTc0] [quote:Anonymous Coward 24106062:MV8xOTk1MDQyXzMzNTE2NDA3X0JEQjkyNTA=] [quote:Itamoo:MV8xOTk1MDQyXzMzNTE2Mjk2X0E5OTM2NTNE] If you want to see some hatred though, ask servers the groups of people they hate serving the most. [/quote] If I were treated and paid as a slave and forced to beg to survive, I'd be filled with a lot of hate, too, especially for the rich people I would have to beg who would mistreat me and give me only pennies. Perhaps a system based on requiring someone to beg is not good enough, not for the one forced to beg, not for the one faced with the begging bowl and coquettish smile. No employer should be exempt from the minimum wage law. That is not an employer, but a slave driver. [/quote] legal minimum wage for a server is 2.15 in most places. the government expects us to make a minimum of 10% tips and taxes us based on our sales, and more if they see we did better than that, plus don't forget to add in tip out and other cost. [/quote] I do not mean this concept of "minimum wage for a server." Nobody survives on 2.15 an hour - ridiculous! In Canada, the minimum wage is approximately $10/hour. If a person works at such a job full time, they will only make $20K/year - the poverty line. No employee should ever get paid less than this. Any business that cannot afford to pay its employees what would at least take them to the poverty time based on a full time schedule, is not a business that deserves to be [i]in business[/i]. [/quote] Then pretty soon you would have no business. [/quote]
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In a bid to boost their wages, New York food servers are now suggesting diners leave tips of up to 30per cent.
With many U.S. restaurants permitted to pay staff as little as $2.15 per hour, workers often rely on service charges to supplement their income.
But following an increase to 20per cent over recent years, the average tip rate is set to rise again.
An article in today's New York Post reveals that 'gratuities can run to 25 or even 30per cent, a number that might have been laughed off just a few years ago.'
Steve Dublanica - a former waiter and author of tipping guides Keep the Change and Waiter Rant - confirmed that the 'tip creep' phenomenon has plagued restaurant-goers for decades.
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