If you are being paid $2.13 an hour, get a new job or go on unemployment... your better off on welfare-money wise.
Who would take a job that paid that?
Lots of people. Good waitstaff and barstaff make good money in tips.
Then you add on the fact that not only are they taxed on the $2.13 an hour (I was paid $2.33 my last waitress job) they are also taxed on their "sales." The last I knew the IRS considered that most wait staff would make 8% in tips on total sales and thus their weekly paychecks not only reflect the tax with held on the hourly wage, but also on 8% of their "sales."
Waiters and waitresses work for tips. It’s part of our economy and culture. Europeans do it differently, but we’re in the USA. It is understood and agreed between the govt (that exempts restaurants/bars from paying the standard minimum wage) and the restaurants/bars that the bulk of a waiter/waitresses income will be from tips.
The alternative, for a restaurant to afford to pay a waiter/waitress in lieu of tips, is to raise prices of food and beverages to incorporate higher waiting labor costs. Your $100 tab would be $120-130, quality of service notwithstanding. As it is, you might leave a $20 tip on a $100 tab. Or you could leave a $10 or $50 tip. Customer’s option. Our current system is voluntary; waiters/waitresses take their chances that by providing good service they will be appropriately rewarded. Or not.
In this case, it could have been poor service; it could have been a cheapskate, who really knows? But a 1% tip is offensive, which may well have been the point. Or, it could just be a manufactured story.
"If you are being paid $2.13 an hour, get a new job or go on unemployment... your better off on welfare-money wise.Wow! You're on a conservative forum and that's your response? What a class act you are.
Who would take a job that paid that?"
Because with tips you can make a lot more.
You’d rather someone get on the government teat than work as a waiter?