Something that caught my eye that really interested me about the current industry I work in, the food industry. Like many servers, we solely rely on the customer to pay us. Servers in America rely on tipping from the customer in order to make a living. Tipping short changes servers, inconveniences customers and makes the overall dining experience WORSE for everyone. Why is it the customers job to pay the restaurants employees humanely? Why don’t they just pay servers a normal amount of money and make the food more expensive? As a server, considering I make tips (based off of the customer), the restaurant only pays me a little over $2 an hour mainly for tax purposes.
This is a flawed system that affects the majority of my fellow workers in the restaurant industry and it needs to be fixed immediately. I’ve had a personal experience with a boss of mine who was asking of me to run other servers trays, meanwhile I was there for over an hour without a signal table, meaning I got paid nothing for being at my job for a whole hour. Don’t get me wrong, I am whole heartedly a team player especially when co-workers are in the weeds and need assistance. However, what I do for my co-workers has no correlation to wether or not I have enough money for food, rent, and other expenses, that reflects solely off of the people that I serve.
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