carlo3b: Whoa.. This has nothing to do with Italian restaurants at all.. These practices have been standard operating procedures for over a century, and memorialized in union contracts..
I'm glad you weighed in on this,Carlo. You have first-hand experience.
The unions loved this practice because it allowed the union to insure a piece of the tip pool in forcing the tips were part of the wages, therefore allowing them to their cut..
Unions "feed" upon each and every business with which they are affiliated. They sometimes kill their own golden goose but other times The Won will bail them out.
arasina, you don’t know the half of it.. These parasites actually eat the golden geese.. Liberals are constantly calling for raising the minimum wage, which has had the most devastating effect on the most vulnerable among us..
History should teach us something, but few remember what the facts are, when we have it at our fingertips with computers..
Carter, raised the minimum wage during the 70’s oil shortages that his policies were directly responsible for..
Raising that wage all but removed the young from entering the labor force, and changed many common services that never returned.. We now pump our own gas, because kids used to pump gas at almost every service station, and they also checked our oil, aired our tires, and cleaned our windows..
GONE are those jobs, and that important entry level jobs for kids.. Also we are now eating junk, serving our own food in fast food restaurants, because busboys and girls were considered unneeded costs, and waiters and waitresses are now required to clean their own tables all too often..
The minimum wage almost did away with janitors and maintenance companies, able to clean more places in the same evenings, sprung up as a result of the increase..
These are only the jobs that I had to adjust to in my food and beverage business.. There are hundreds of changes that happen when you tinker with capital commerce..