Waffle House is increasing pay for its U.S. workers after a push from labor advocates. In a video message to employees late last month, Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers III said base pay without tips would rise to at least $3 per hour in June and then gradually rise to at least $5.25 per hour by June 202
  • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
    26·
    5 months ago

    Wages are guaranteed money. This is good for employees, if no one comes in you still get paid. Sure you might get less tips but at least you know you’ll get a steady paycheck.

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
      16·
      5 months ago

      They’ll also have an easier time staffing slow hours. No one wants to work a dead shift with a tip allowance.

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        5 months ago

        Before people come in talking about how employers have to make up the difference if tips don’t get them to minimum wage…

        That’s based on the entire pay period, not per shift. So if you make decent tips the rest of the period, you’re still being paid below minimum wage at like $3/hr for the slow time.

        • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
          6·
          5 months ago

          Exactly right. Server paychecks are barely worth the paper they’re printed on. I served ~25 years ago, when minimum wage was $5.15 per hour in NY. I’ll never forget the weekly paychecks for less than $10 kicking around my place from tip allowance and card advances.

          • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            Out of curiosity, to add to my anecdotal evidence archive from server friends, did you declare all of your tips on your taxes? Or did a lot of those cash tips end up being effectively tax free?

    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
      4·
      5 months ago

      Yep. Fewer tips while retaining a living wage should be the goal. Tips remove the burden of the livable wage from the business and place it on the consumer, where it will never be guaranteed. Lots of businesses likely have completely untenable business models if they had to pay fair wages without tips.

      Let’s stop having the average person subsidize companies.

  • tissek
    8·
    5 months ago

    Just to have it emphasized.

    Unions work. Labour organization is effective.

    • SharkEatingBreakfast
      3·
      5 months ago

      My da loves traveling south specifically for Waffle House and Buckees! We don’t have then in the north/midwest, so he’s always excited to revisit them.

      • slurpinderpin@lemmy.world
        11·
        5 months ago

        Yep I lived in MN and often found myself craving good Southern food and food spots. Lots of things I liked about the Midwest but the food was not one of them, very bland

    • criticon@lemmy.ca
      2·
      5 months ago

      Everytime I drive South from Michigan my first stop is at a waffle House in Toledo, OH