@@jonathanjones3126 ANYONE making a decision for another person is always bad. Its literally the antithesis of what this country was founded for - freedom
@Marty234 I am not anti regulation, but the people involved in the rules need to actively listen to all parties, most listen to the people primarily affected. Having a clean environment is a good thing but you cannot kill the economy to do so.
Ya I was like that at 1st too, but now I just keep cash on me and throw a buck or 2 into those kinds of works tip jars, I'm not giving 20% but it makes them happy and it's only a $. Now I find myself getting annoyed at food cashiers who don't have a tip jar lol. Its a good way to get really good service & hook ups as well as making others happy
Like I order a carry out pizza. I call and get a call center now. I go pick up the pizza, they hand it to me and take my payment. I’m not tipping you. I’ve done that job at several pizza places. I paid for the pizza, it’s priced to reflect the overhead of the restaurant. If I paid $10 for the pizza, you better believe I’d be tipping them, but it’s like 20-30
They don't mention the dirty little secret that much of tipped income is not reported to be taxed - why waitstaff love cash tips. My mom was a waitress.
@DanCooper404 I do the same! I carry cash in small bills just for this purpose. I NEVER tip with a card. One thing I was told was to write "cash" in the tip line so that the waiter remembers that you tipped in cash and doesn't think you are a cheapskate & spit in ur food next time 😅
@@DanCooper404 meh. If wait staff choose to not report income for tax purposes, and then later whine about how little SSDI they're eligible for, that IS on them -- but if they're going to report, why risk walking home late at night with hundreds of dollars in cash? Going to go pay cash for rent?
@@Degarth In North America, social justice agendas are almost always designed to promote corporate interests. It's the same story with immigration. What they really want is to stimulate economic demand. Her donors are likely the same people who fund the Democrats.
The reality is, I tip less now because everything costs more. I only have so much money to go around. When a medium latte cost $4, I would tip a dollar. Now it costs $5.50. I don't tip, and I buy less of them (bring more coffee from home).
Me too. And the local coffee shop close to where I work now charges extra for every little thing. If you get more than three packets of sugar, they charge you 50 cents for that, and they also charge for lite ice. They also tried to make me pay $1.75 for a cup of water. It's better to just make coffee at home. It tastes better anyway.
@@teebob21they should definitely complain but just are getting lied to about who they should complain to. Private businesses should be the ones to figure out additional compensation for better employees, these owners showcased in the video have never had to be held responsible for that side of the business and it shows. It's hard for me to be sad for someone who wants to obfuscate their actual prices and blame someone else
Activists alway cherrypick data that show their viewpoint and when you show them the actual data they put their fingers in their ears and cover their eyes
Data is flawed. Every single other developed country pays a minimum wage and they have exponentially more non chain restaurants than the US. Compare the number of restaurants and bars in Sydney to DC. BTW They pay over fifty dollars an hour on public holidays, yes that is a Ulysses S grant for every hour of work.
DC area bartender here; what ppl who “fight for $15” don’t get is that this is a commission based position. If I sell $2000 I make $400. IDGAF about my hourly.
@@brookiegremlin6660 So cut out the middle man and sit on the curb with a cardboard sign then if thats how you really think. I guarantee that people will still tip even if you are paid a full wage, it was NEVER about pity for you and everything about the person tipping trying to up their social status by being seen as someone who tips big.
@@jwfcp you're missing the point--idc about the internal motivations of customers. I care about money. When I worked at places that paid 2.13/hour, I took home at least 50/hour in tips. My friends who currently work at places paying 15/hour usually take home about 18/hour. Look, if this woman wants to stick it to the man for the sake of glorifying herself in her wokeness, nobody can stop her. But she's hurting the pockets of actual servers, and she doesn't care at all.
@@brookiegremlin6660 hot take but making 6 figures as a waiter also makes no sense either though and that's what you're implying you make. The burden shouldn't be on an employer or customers to pay you that and everyone else who doesn't work a tip based job shouldn't suffer just for your greed.
If your servers are making minimum wage, then there should be no tips, no service charges, etc. The salary is baked into the sale price, which is the norm everywhere else. Right?
I don't like that sort of talk either but if workers did know what was good for them they would of course not be going to work but just retaking their government and making it work for them instead of corporations. The problem is that workers who spend 9- 12 hours of a working day thinking for their boss don't have much time to see trough the propaganda of their millionaire & billionaire bosses so without much work you can in fact make them vote against their own interest. The entire education and media system is designed to propagandize citizens into acting and voting against their own best interest. That of course being said the smug elites who tend to say this care more about their power & influence than they care about actually improving the living conditions of the workers they supposedly want to help.,
Admittedly the lowering of quality of life by heavy inflation has also decreased the number of people who could afford to shop. It’s a double edged sword.
@@bradleyhanson - Of course. But prior to the minimum wage increase, the position paid the wage that the position justified and people were willing to accept. Once it was mandated that the business must pay more, the business owner found a way to continue without that position and the person formerly in that job is now unemployed. Even if the unemployment was just temporary and the person found a new minimum wage job, they still lost their job.
My problem with tipping is that it is everywhere now. It is one thing to tip someone when you go to a sit down restaurant you plan to give a tip and is a treat, it is another for it to be expected and food carts, for pick up, for fast food, etc.
@nicholasstachelrodt1668 Kind of why I don't think tipped wage should be a thing. We are obligated to tip because it is an assumed majority of their salary regardless of the actual service received, though the tips usually don't go to the people who actually cook the food. I understand that and rarely go to sit down restaurants, I also never get spa services of professional haircuts for the same reason. I might be able to scrap $100 for an occasional facial/massage or something but the extra 20% kills it for me. I also then have to tip extra when I go out with people from cultures where tipping isn't a thing and they would stiff the server compounding the cost for me. Now the expectation has shifted to food carts and cafes, so I am just done. I would happily pay more up front for a place that doesn't allow tipping, but I am deeply in the minority on that one. Because I abide by the cultural expectation, I have to subsidize for the people who aren't tipping. At this point, I'll just make my own. The quality of most restaurant food has gone down so much, the food I make will usually be better anyways.
@@bbgun061 So they both work their ass off but one just gets paid more than the other just because? "sorry you made 300 burgers in an hour instead of carrying 12 plates this hour so you make less than half the money"
@@nicholasstachelrodt1668 Everyone gets paid according to the deal they made with their employer. Restaurant servers get paid directly by the customers they serve, which is the deal that they accept when they take the job. No one is forcing anyone to work fast food or to wait tables. No one is forcing restaurant owners to pay minimum wage to their employees. They are free to pay their servers more and put up signs saying, "please don't tip." I've been to at least one restaurant like that. But if you ask your waiter which he would prefer, he'll probably tell you he'd rather get tips. As a customer, I don't like tipping culture, but if the waiters and waitresses like it, who am I to tell them they're wrong?
@@deafinitaly5948False! True minimum wage of $0 just means you take a job... or not... based on what they are WILLING/ABLE to pay, and what you're WILLING to accept. The market will correct itself.
As someone who has worked in food and beverage for 15 years, the only tipped employees that I've worked with who wanted to implement a minimum wage were the employees who sucked at their job. I dropped out of college and I've seen people who graduated come and start doing exactly what I'm doing because the job they just spent an ungodly amount of money on doesn't pay as well as the restaurant job they had during college.
Explains why it's Zs who most want to do that. I drive Uber and like tips. Min wage means spit in your food and a missing server on their phones the entire visit.
And of course, that organizer will never work in a restaurant. But she will get rich, costing other people their jobs. Just another Grifter if you ask me.
Exactly. I always took tip jobs instead of a set wage and made way more money. I worked as a bagger for tips only in high school and made way more than kids at mcdonalds or burger king. Moved on to delivery driver because tips i made up to 6k some months. Now i work in sales for commissions. Set wages are trash if you have social skills.
@@JodyBruchon no, but if you get past college or over the age of 22 and are still worried about minimum wage, then you screwed up. Minimum wage is a live at home with my parents wage, not a middle class wage to buy a house on and raise a family while you have no skills. Get your skills up first and minimum wage won't even be a topic.
@@jwfcpit depends on how much. Nobody wants a balance; double or nothing is a crazy ultimatum. Wish they had some workers mention on the low end instead of acting like waiting tables is always going to have good pay.
@@MrVariant No, its not crazy that working people be able to pay their own bills. That you have successfully delayed fixing a problem for decades isn't an argument against fixing the problem. Reject communism, embrace capitalism, say no to handouts and pay full price or your burger.
@jwfcp As someone who has had to quit a job I loved because of losing $400 a week in time and a half pay from my paycheck due to my wage being raised, and has many friends and family members that have lost their jobs because their company needing to cut costs to afford the minimum wage increase, I can confidently tell you that you are wrong about wage hikes never killing jobs.
@@Eatbutternow "losing $400 a week in time and a half pay from my paycheck due to my wage being raised, " Thats insane gibberish, stop going onto the internet and lying to people. Look at how wages were a dollar an hour in the 50's, surely employment must only be a small fraction of what it was then? No, you insufferable putz. The dollar is simply worth less now, you need to spend more of them to get the same stuff you wanted.
I live in California & the $20 minimum wage lost me my job. Lots of people lost their jobs, or had their hours cut. Now going out to eat cost more & service is worse. The crazy thing was I read articles claiming this raise had very little impact on restaurants & employees. That's BS!
@xtreme242 It affected more than just McDonald's & Burger King! Ask the 1200 drivers at Pizza Hut that lost their jobs. They fell under the law too. The problem is in CA most food service places are franchises owned by regular people not corporations. They don't make the same profits as corporate stores! There was no job growth people just had to get 2nd jobs because their hours got cut.
That's false. Economists said no one would lose their job when minimum wage went up, therefore you're lying. Conservatives said people will lose jobs when the minimum wage goes up, and they can't possibly be right.
The guy who said the pay is being regulated by the voters hit the nail on the head. If workers want a higher wage they can unionize, organize, and negotiate for it. They and the business owners know what will work better than the rest of us.
@DottyMcInk workers are bad and stupid and shouldn’t even be allowed to talk to each other. Thats why a hive only has one queen. It’s the natural law. Like that movie A Bugs Life.
@DottyMcInk Unions are dumb, the one and only thing they do, is allow a group of unhappy workers the ability to force happy workers to go on strike with them. If you want more pay there are many ways to negotiate with your boss to get higher pay without a union.
I paid for a good chunk of college in the 90s delivering pizza. I did make full minimum wage ($4.25) but I usually made two to three times that in tips. I was making between $30-40 an hour inflation adjusted. I was able to pay my rent, tuition, food and utilities in about 25-30 hours a week. And have no debt. And gas was 96 cents a gallon.
@@phoenix5054that attitude is why we are in this mess. Anger toward what you assume to be boomers rather than our politicians who directly cause this….
I run a bar downtown. I pulled in $98,000 last year and 75K of that was under the table “cash” and I only work three nights a week so restaurant jobs do not all pay poverty wages
@@nicholasstachelrodt1668 because she works at Denny's. What does she or you expect. I would expect that from Denny's. If she doesn't want to make low wages then move on from Denny's. I have a lot of friends who work in the restaurant industry. Most make between 60 to 80 grand a year, on TIPS! But guess what? None of these people work at Denny's. Denny's is a entry-level restaurant job, where one works for a year or two before moving on to a higher end restaurant, with a higher-end clientele, that leaves high tips. Your friend has no one to blame but themselves for their low wages.
I see some commenters objecting to “tip culture.” That’s fine, but this is something that can be addressed through markets and cultural debate. Passing a law to get your way is just as coercive and wrong as passing a law to mandate paying waiters through tips. There’s room for different ways to compensate restaurant workers, and we can sort it out peacefully.
Most people don't understand the difference between a job where you're compensated through tips and what has become too culture. Your Starbucks drink is $7 because the barista makes $14/hr. It's stupid that this place asks for tips. Your Texas Roadhouse steak is NOT $40 because the server only makes $4/hr. As someone who used to be a server both in a state with a "server minimum wage" and a state that required restaurants to pay servers the same, I made way more money at the job that was allowed to pay me less.
@@saltyluchadorick3569 Unfortunately this very real and basic truth will always be lost on the majority of people incapable of going beyond first order thinking, even if it's shoved right in front of their faces. Forget chess, people today don't even seem capable of strategic checkers or tic tac toe. Society is dumber than previous eras.
Give people the freedom to sign the work contracts they agree to, what a novel concept. I personally like tipped income, almost as much as I like production based income. Merit based reward systems are just better than getting paid for your time.
@@Ghoxtfire I'm sorry but New York City is a complete disaster right now. It got so bad that New York City actually tried to prevent people from leaving. Same case in California. So many people were leaving that the governor attempted to add a fine for people who were leaving the states. The courts shot that down of course but the fact that he actually tried.
@@bryanshoemaker6120 the data for the $15 dollar minimum wage we have the 9 years data now you should check it berkeley Conclusion CONCLUSION Reich et al. (2016) analyzed a proposal to increase minimum wages to $15 in New York State by 2021. The report predicted that a gradual increase to $15 would not reduce the number of jobs. The results reported here both confirm the accuracy of that forecast
I'm a European. I have watched this video, and I still do not understand the argument in support of compulsory tips. How exactly does higher minimum wage result in higher costs of doing business? Here is my understanding: I go to a restaurant, and pay a fixed amount for my food, plus some amount for a tip. In EU, the minimum tip is zero - I only have to pay a tip for outstanding service, good service does not require a tip. In US, I have to leave a minimum tip of 10% or the waiter will go home hungry. So rising the minimum wage and decreasing the minimum tip should have no effect on the costs of running the business, just make the cost of eating out more upfront. What am I missing?
An owner pays workers more, so they raise the price so they can make the same amount. -1 owner profit, so -1 to customer to get equilibrium for the owner. Simplest I can say, I think.
@ethanton7074 what about tips? Higher salary, higher prices, but lower tips would result in the same total cost for the consumer, so the number of consumers would not change.
@@ArgumentumAdHominemthe restaurant industry and the entertainment industry are not so black and white like your argument. It's dependent on when people can come and and enjoy the food. If I pay more in food I cannot tip as much. Also if you tip in cash it is easier to hide. Tipping provides more freedom and flexibility. This industry is not 9 to 5
@chasingsunsets87 it does not answer my question though. Here is a concrete example. If I pay 50$ for a meal, can I tip less than 5$ if I did not like the service. If yes, then you are right. If no, then there is no difference if it is a cost or a tip.
The part that drives me most insane about this is that these advocacy groups talk about protecting the little guy, but the only people who benefit in the long run from minimum wage increase is the big corporations that can eat the costs and now have less competition as smaller businesses go under. Whereas every time someone supposedly is better off because their wage increased, a couple of months later they're already talking that it isn't enough because either their hours were cut, or inflation already ate up the additional income. In Ontario when our minimum wage jumped to $14, I was working at a salon that had 11 staff that immediately shrunk to 9, and we were getting fewer hours on top of that. And when our prices increased to reflect the new wages, people started tipping less as well. I'd say it was about $500 less in my pocket at the end of the month after all was said and done.
@@BBB_bbb_BBB logic and facts don't matter to these people. Its about using force to coerce ppl to do what they want, its a power trip and a deep hatred of freedom and America in general.
The problem is wages should have raised steadily. But soo much money was spent keeping it down that...yeah $15.00 hour sounds alot...cause it's $7.75 more than federal minimum wage of $7.25. The last time the wage was raised was in 2009...if only it raised little by little each year to beat inflation.....WE WOULDN'T BE STUCK IN THIS SITUATION
@@johnbees4443 problem is wages should raise naturally per the market and demand. You cant just pass laws and raise wages and think itll solve problems. It always creates more problems and kills small businesses thats why now you have nothing but mostly large corporations in the states unlike other countries where small businesses are everywhere thriving. Raising minimum wage is just more woke virtue signalling.. minimum wage is 0. Factor that into your activism.
NO MORE TIPS, NO MORE TIP WAGES FOR COMPANIES!!! The whole tip culture needs to be scrapped! Why should we foot the payroll for businesses? Why should certain people get tipped for their jobs while most workers are not?
Back in the 90s minimum wage was a lot lower but you were able to receive raises. My first job out of high school after only a couple years I had six raises.
@Ghoxtfire no, not at all. if you don't get raised then you leave the job. Even a bad boss is not willing to risk that if you are a good worker. Especially if you're doing the work of four employees.
Massachusetts beat this back! The Restaurant Association fought hard and all the tipped employees voted NO. "One Fair Wage" got obliterated in Massachusetts. Saru Jayaraman is pure evil.
I also got to vote no on 5. It was kind of shocking. Deep blue state that goes along with almost every form of online progressive cause, but the referendum was unpopular at every restaurant.
Im in CA. A friends daughter works at McDonald's. She worked a minimum of 35 hour per week, after the minimum wage whet up to $20 per hour for fast food workers, she now works 3 hours per week. The government really helped her, make less money, but hay, she makes $20 per hour.
There is very little tipping culture in Europe, yet restaurants function. How is it that only American restaurants cannot survive without the tip compensation model?
They’re built with that model in mind. Why should it matter to you whether a business accepts tips as part of its business model? Why should the law dictate how businesses can accept payment and the manner in which their employees can receive some of that? If you aren’t in the industry, I don’t see why you should get to decide. If you are in the industry, I don’t see why others should get to decide for you.
The issue is you can’t compete otherwise. If you try to start a restaurant that doesn’t utilize tipping as the majority of the staffs income. You’re still competing with those who do. Imagine if two people start restaurants both equal in every other regard, same cost, overhead, staff numbers, literally equal in every other cost. The only difference is one pays 10-15 more an hour to tipped staff, and a lil more to boh. And the other simply don’t gaf and pays the lowest wage boh will accept and 2 bucks an hour to everyone else. Well obviously that cheap idgaf guy is making more money. That means he will open more locations than you and beat you out of existence. As he gains more locations things won’t be so equal when he uses his scaled up operations to undercut you at every turn. It really is as simple as I’m a body builder. Do I want to be the only guy not juicing up. Sure I can always say I’m subjectively morally better, always did the right thing, and take pride in my self righteousness. But when I lose at every single competition it’s 100% cause I wasn’t juiced up 6 months out the year. Small 5% advantages turn into 20% advantages over time. And unless everyone is brought to follow the new rules the people that don’t will just keep winning. And restaurants in general are a scale required industry to make serious money. Major chains simply have far more advantage over companies with 1 or a few locations. So shooting yourself in the foot by disadvantaging yourself is dumb. You would be better served being cut throat until you’re scaled up and than being more generous. But most people don’t operate that way so it’s rare.
Something else that I as a service worker would love for Reason to investigate is the activists that campaign to force small businesses to be handicap accessible. Most businesses can't afford ramps. A coffee shop in a historic neighborhood may not be able to change the facade of the building at all. In my progressive area there have been many boycotts of businesses that weren't handicap accessible, robbing decent people of jobs and ultimately robbing the community of businesses that were serving them. People don't understand that not everywhere can be accessible or that if you want places to update their layout, you have to support them so they can afford it. I hate to say it but it truly is a lot of privileged people punching the little guys.
@@sanniepstein4835 I have a Natural Resources (from a college in NY) degree and we discussed a case (in NY) where a handicapped person wanted access to a wilderness area. They literally put in a gate and a paved road for that handicapped person to access the wilderness area. The one defining factor for a wilderness area is that it is supposed to have no human influence to it, including roads. So in essence, they destroyed the wilderness character of the designated wilderness area because of the ADA laws (that the courts said supersede the wilderness laws.) So, yes, flatten the mountain because the one person was not able to climb it.
Easy solution, end tipping! Personally I do my utmost to avoid any place where a tip is expected. I can easily go to the counter myself to get my food from the cook, only takes a few seconds.
I’m tired of subsidizing waiters and bartenders wages plain and simple; now a days they want to you to tip 20 to 30’and in some cases 40 percent of the bill? Screw that it’s already getting too expensive to go and then you want to get pissed with me because I leave 10 bucks on a 100 dollar tab? A tip should not be expected and I don’t even tip anymore; i got kids to feed and a home to maintain
I told my friend the same exact thing. If you relie on tips and your boss is not paying you, that a you problem. Not the costumer job to pay your salary. Learn a skill if you need money
In exactly that fashion yes but many sales jobs work in more or less the same way. Your pay is overwhelmingly based on how you sell to customer, the same as a waiter from my experience in those roles
Which is a good thing. Employees get to keep 100% of the tips. If the employer collects the money from the customer, they keep part of it for themselves.
@@ScottMStolz That's unequivocally false. There's no legal regulation or protection for wait staff to get the tip provided by the customer. It could be equally divided among all wait staff, a percentage can go to the chef/cooks/runners/dishwashers. Restaurant owners could take a percentage out of the tip (not just for CC fees). You have no idea what's going to happen to the money you put down on the table.
@@YaYousef5 The worker agreed to work at the restaurant. If he or she doesn't like the rules of how the tips are split, then he or she can leave for a different place to work. Doesn't have to be restaurant specifically, which leads to a multitude of different opportunities. Especially in the age of the internet where jobs can be done online as well.
dont get rid of it, but get rid of the awful culture of "shame on you" if you dont tip everyone. tip should be if you got exceptional service, not if you put my food in a box and handed it to me!
Be like Mr Pink in reservoir dogs. Tips are BS , tip if you feel like you got good service , but usually the cooks don't get tipped . Raising minimum wage is bad for small businesses. And
Reminds me of the minimum wage passed by Cuomo. I was working back at a food service job and studies had come out years ago that a 10% increase in minimum wage results in something like a loss of 25% of hours/income iirc. I brought that up to our manager when the law was passed and they denied it, but what do you know, each shift lost one worker, and as it eventually rolled higher while I was a shift manager who worked on inventory, payroll, and scheduling, and we had to cut 25% of the hours again. These people are either stupid or lying with statistics
People who want this don't care if they ruin a business or the workwr who no longer has a job. It's about feeling moral. Here in Washington they changed the minimum wage and businesses used to be able to count tips towards that wage. Now they cannot... Restaurants said we can't afford it and people were like then you should go out of business. Crazy.
If a business is exploiting people then not existing is a good thing. Someone else will take their place who can have an ethical form of a restaurant industry.
@@GojosMiddleFinger it's not slave labor if people applied for and agreed to the job. you people sound like such spoiled bratts. Yay for these people out of a job to make you feel morally superior.. when you literally employ and provide for no one, but let's shame people who actually help others and their community. Shameful.
@@jeffreyrodrigoecheverria2613 that is one of the dumbest things i ever heard. It's not a slave wage if people seeked out and applied for the job and kept working there.. have you thought maybe they like their job.. spoiled bratts
One of the problems with bartenders and waiters is that they spent years convincing people they live in near poverty that people think they actually don’t make even minimum wage. I think 90% of the population would be totally surprised how much full time waiters and bartenders make.
The tipping exemption is part of the minimum wage law so... It was carved out originally for a reason. Tbh though I didn't agree with any of the opinions presented in the video @@cbl6520
I'm sorry but I've got to say it. This is what always happens when you increase minimum wage. Small businesses go out of business and fire staff and nobody seems to care.
This is not what the economic data from Europe says and if that happens in the USA it's mostly because owners and companies are allowed to punish their workers for voting against the bosses interest. Why the fuck so many workers feel this deep seated urge to defend their bosses against the 'evil' activist one can never be entirely sure but the billionaire media propaganda probably goes a long way.
I mean... that is how it works in all of business. It's just that you see it so upfront in the restaurant industry because they directly ask you to tip.
as a former pizza delivery driver, yes the tipping aspect sucks. being called a "waiter on wheels" sucked, and I'm happy i left that job years ago. I'd be open to getting rid of the tip credit system too, it feels like its to benefit the owners most of all; customers are the ones that are having to make up the wage difference to workers.
Then don't work the pizza job. There are many jobs you can choose from. Even jobs you can get online that doesn't take much to learn how to do. Simply, you need to spend that that tidbit of time to find the better job you want.
@Slugma-kx7pv again, FORMER, as in of course I left that job. However with such an additude about it, I hope you don't order delivery yourself and go pick it up yourself
The very reasons that tipped staff love tips is the very reason customers do not. We don't want to be responsible for the payroll of the restaurant's staff.
As a former waiter, I hate the tipping system. That said, I loved how on slow days I just did homework and read books... making like half the minimum wage. These goons pushing for crazy minimum wages would say i shouldn't be allowed to do that and it would be better for the owner to send me home. Minimum wage decreases the flexibility in the marketplace.
I'm curious why you hated the tipping system. From the consumer perspective, I like it because if the server does a lousy job then I am justified in providing less compensation. In other words I believe it encourages/rewards better service.
I waited tables at different restaurants. Sometimes tipping sucked because a lot of people believe tipping 10% was a good tip. It's not. Every restaurant I worked at had tipout too where I give 4% of my tip to other workers(hostess, busboy and bartender). I admit I wasn't the most charming waiter but I always did my best to get people their food and drinks. If you're in a area with good tippers and able to get people to connect with you you'll make good money. Otherwise the pay is not terrible but just mediocre.@@ronrothrock7116
Wow, 3 failed attempts to put her policies into use and she locks in even more. (Props for trying) The power of cognitive dissonance is profound in this one. Then supporting her cause with erroneous statistics is absolutely wild. Harvard and Yale must be so proud. SMH And the irony of her organization being sued for wage theft and discrimination LMAO
Prossives "Our policies are never bad. Anything that happens after our policy implementation never has anything to do with our policy implementation unless it's good." "Everything that happens that's bad in an area that we're targeting with new policy is because of the naughty people that we don't like. It never has anything to do with anything else." "The data that we have is awesome, but we wont share it with you even when we say that we will unless its been cooked in some way."
@@SoMuchFacepalm nope. Brother and room mate worked in kitchens. They get both in WA state the cooks and the servers. Its the law. You get the minimum wage plus tips. I have had CNAs quit because the make WAY more as servers than they do working in a nursing home.
@@SoMuchFacepalm Yeah. I heard in some states they pay like 3 bucks an hour or something because they assume they get tips? That's crazy! How is that even legal? What if you don't get tipped all day?
I noticed and as a former busser, it’s why I left the business entirely. Too much corruption from waiters AND management alike. Been witness to it, don’t want it anymore.
@@BigBlack81 Exactly, without the whole team, there is nothing. The waiters and waitresses are in it for themselves. Tips should always be shared within non management employees.
@@josephcalp1604 You agree to the conditions of how the tips are distributed. Imagine voluntarily agreeing to the arrangement then complain when you regret for the choice you made.
A lot of small businesses don't have an incentive to hire servers or bartenders because they don't have the flow into the business at a particular time, but a server or bartender might take a position knowing that people will come into be served by them. That's why tipping works better than just a flat wage for restaurants and workers. When it comes to chain restaurants, it's not as simple, especially when big corporations can keep the cost of the meals low compared with a small family run establishment with higher costs. Smaller businesses tend to be better options for entertaining than corporations and therefore forcing a higher minimum wage just drives the market towards consolidation, which no one wants.
Perhaps those big chain restaurants are the ones financing her? To push out the smaller competition? Or perhaps some in the government are behind her financing? I hear the servers regularly report lower tips than they really get so that they don't may as much in taxes. Maybe government wants those tax dollars?
Minimum wage is minimum wage. People need to understand that moving that number up doesn’t change the fact its still minimum and everything above will just adjust up and with the speed of computers and analytics, analysts who come up with pricing numbers and competitive salaries, the adjustments takes less than a month to shift up. Apartment renters and groceries will adjust almost instantly to give themselves a raise as well.
I mean you could say the same thing to say that child labor is good in China. Or the child labor would be good in the US. That doesn't make you good at talking about Labor politics. But the US government is now very unethical with Trump at the top so go ahead with your stupid logic.
@@biblesforbreakfast China is a lot poorer than what is portrayed. Parents feel compelled to send their children to work because they don't make enough to support the whole family. This was the same in the USA until parents could afford to keep their children out of working and focus on other aspects in their life, like education. The ones still doing child labor was the government, forcing children in government orphanages to do work. The difference today in the USA vs. China, China is applying worse and worse restriction on the private sector. Thus making people poorer altogether. When you complain about it online as a citizen under the rule of the CCP, you're censored by the millions of CCP censorship workers who go severely underpaid while also manually assessing thousands upon thousands of content per hour. All without breaks.
California's $20/hr. mandate for fast food workers has caused the closing of thousands of franchises, with the subsequent loss of tens of thousands of jobs.
Critics of the American tipping system are so numerous that it has become a cliché, though it's funny how almost none of them have ever actually worked for tips.
I don't need to have been a burglar to make that claim that I don't like being robbed . . . (No, waiters are not thieves. It's a loose analogy before someone jumps the shark)
??? i worked for tips and now i advocate for people to not tip if they dontwant/cant afford to. this scummy advocacy and the USA culture around tipping are 2 different conversations
I live in Oregon where waiters/waitresses are mandated to be paid the same minimum wage that all other workers make ($13-15/hr depending on where you are). On top of that I'm expected to tip 15-20%. Every time I eat out I seriously reconsider my career path, because I know I will earn more under those conditions than I do at my current job. Either these folks should get paid a regular wage or they should earn a much smaller wage and earn those 15% tips, but not both. It simply makes it too expensive to eat out. I, personally, prefer the tip method because it rewards good service. If the servers are going to earn the same no matter their service level, then there is no incentive for them to provide outstanding service. I guess this is what you get when people appeal to emotion and not facts/logic; broken policies that hurt everyone.
@@nicholasstachelrodt1668 Because not all jobs are service jobs? But if you are referring to those jobs that ARE service jobs, then I don't see a problem with that unless the service is expensive, like doctors and healthcare, for example. But there are other service jobs where this won't be appropriate either. For example the cashier at the grocery store. Technically speaking they are service jobs, but there is very little in the area of "quality of service" that has any real meaning. But I can give you an example of there this did work well in another service job... When I was in high school in the late 80's I worked as a grocery bagger for the base commissary (grocery store). It was right at the tail end of paper bags before switching to plastic. The cashiers were hourly, but the baggers were TIP ONLY! We earned our pay by being quick, efficient and effective. Those of us who could bag fast, keep like stuff together (ie frozen with frozen, non-food with other non-food etc.) and keep the squishables/breakables intact would make good money. We also packed these bags into the trunks of the shopper's vehicle, and doing so fast and efficiently was part of that service. It worked fantastically! So, yes, I think tipping-only for quite a few specific service industries would be quite effective.
Worked sometimes hourly and other times for tips. Earning tips was hit-or-miss, but an important experience I wouldn't've wanted to do wothout. Know the many unintended consequences before you take that option away.
If businesses close because they can't make enough money to pay their employees, then they need to go out of business. We don't need slave labor jobs. Tipping should be abolished, and prices should be set to what employees were making before tips were abolished. If people normally pay $25 + $5 tip for food, then the price should be $30. None of this bull crap pity money. Tired of random strangers chasing me down in the parking lot because they didn't get what they expected.
You really don’t understand economics and didn’t listen to the video. You are probably and government or highly removed corporate employee. I’d also say you didn’t go to school but then you could be an indoctrinated employee.
Waiting tables was the only good paying job available to me before finishing college. I am so disgusted by these elitist activists who are, in effect, fighting to lower the pay of wait staff and bartenders.
Gov needs to get out of the free market and let workers and companies work out what's best for themselves on a case by case basis. One size fits also just means that it fits no one
It’s a red flag when the leader of a political movement tries to appeal to celebrities instead of the actual workers she claims to represent. The slavery claim is so wild and out of pocket. Good on the opposition for speaking out.
Will any of the RNA COVID vaccine pushers admit they were wrong to mandate the vaccines? No, they will not admit they were wrong, because they believe they "did it for the right reasons".
Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole. -Thomas Sowell
this reminds me a lot of covid. unfortunately, "facts" and "data" don't actually mean truth. so we all tend to show only the information that supports the reality we want
Tipping culture needs to be cancelled, now a days even mac D and subway want tips. Even a pick up option they ask for tip. These people make lot of money without paying taxes
As a lifelong chef and restaurant manager I can tell you this only applies to servers and bartenders because often they out earned us as chefs and managers. People who work in the back in most places get bs pay. The national restaurant association is one of the largest lobbiest. Servers make more than that at any okay restaurant but you'll never know because most don't have to claim cash tips. Mcdonalds doesn't have servers and look at their prices. They are skyrocketing regardless of type of restaurant.
@@Tusk_Tact😂😂😂😂😂😢😅 FREE MARKET 😂😂😂That's hilarious. 🎉 Tell me...why is the wage raising now? Is it because we finally reached a point of where the juice isn't worth the squeeze?
@@johnbees4443 Actually the free market IS what is causing it to go up. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 and many states still have that also. But if you look at what the bottom end wages are actually being paid is quite a bit more than that in those areas. So, what is your evidence for why wages are increasing now?
The rest of the world works without tips. The issue is not the wages but rather the ludicrous real estate market preventing businesses from having much left over for wages.
The National Restaurant Association estimates that 20% of restaurants are successful, with 60% failing in their first year and 80% failing within five years. And that is giving the owners the ability to unfairly pay servers.
The really stupid part is expected tips have gone up from 5 to 10 percent, to 20 to 30 percent. They also love to blame inflation, but they clearly don't understand how percentages work.
So workers accept keep blocking initiatives to get a higher wage because they make more than minimum wage would guarantee, with tips. But this is only possible if customers are guilt tripped into into tipping a lot. So that argument that we hear that waiters arent paid enough, so we have to tip at least 20% is by design, and its the actual waiters that want this to remain?!? I feel less inclined to tip 20% now. Since they themselves want to ensure the wages are low and we are forced to tip higher.
I worked for years in restaurants. I knew servers that made $600 to $800 or more on a Friday night. I was a chef and had to work all week to make that. Tipping today has gotten out of hand. Now a cashier wants a tip. A tip for taking my money.
11:25 Calling it a "savior complex" is a perfect description, applicable to most activists. The "for your own good whether you like it or not" mindset is born out of a sense of superiority.
Everyone here saying “restaurants are a commission-based system” without realizing that instead of allowing tipping or raising minimum wage we should instead execute a system were employees earn FIXED percentage of all earnings. There: you solve the minimum wage and you also solve the “not giving a good service because wage-based systems don’t encourage effort”. All jobs should be percentage based. All of them.
When I discuss minimum wage with someone who says it should go up, which isn't often, I ask (I am an annoying person), "Why not higher? Why not make it $30/hr? Why not $40/hr? Why not make it $50/hr? We could all make $100,000 a year."
I delivered pizza for two years in college in the '90s. I worked four hours on Thursday - Saturday nights then an eight hour shift on Sunday for minimum wage plus tips. I cleared over $500 per week and told the IRS about less than half of it. It paid better (per hour) than my first two post college jobs writing software.
I honestly hate tip culture, I see it as a business forcing the customer to compensate for the lower pay they're paying their employees, not tipping is an option, but I also don't want to look like an asshole, so tipping is kinda required. There are nations that see tipping as a bad thing, I want to get there, where we see the *tipper* as the asshole. I understand that means higher costs for what I'm buying, but that higher cost should go towards paying the employees more. The fact one guy in this piece said he made in one day, what some office workers make in a year is super telling that we need to kill tipping, it's basically an extra tax on the consumer. I don't endorse a minimum wage at all, I think that's stupid and the business should be able to determine what they want to pay their workers, if someone is willing to work for less, who cares if both people are in agreement to the terms of employment? As a libertarian, I think we need to make that the business of the employee and employer, not the government.
@@everythingisfine9988 and look like an asshole? I gave a 5 dollar tip on a $20 bill once at a Chinese restaurant and I got the nastiest stares from the staff on my way out, you thought I just walked out without giving them anything with the evil eyes that were being shot at me. If I could avoid tipping I would, but I also like eating out and not worrying about people spitting in my food because they remembered I didn't tip.
So when comparing a tipping culture and one where people just made a wage, do you think you would get the same service from both? I tend to think that if people know they will earn more for doing a better job, they will do a better job. What is your take on that?
Celebrities and activists making decisions for real people is always a bad combination.
@@jerome_dangelo politicians and bureaucrats are included in that
@@jonathanjones3126 ANYONE making a decision for another person is always bad. Its literally the antithesis of what this country was founded for - freedom
@Marty234 I am not anti regulation, but the people involved in the rules need to actively listen to all parties, most listen to the people primarily affected. Having a clean environment is a good thing but you cannot kill the economy to do so.
Those activists actually don't care about other people. They just do it for themself for money and fame
ssssshhhhh they can hear you
The only thing that's really annoying about tipping is that everybody wants a tip now, not just those earning a tipped wage. It's really annoying.
Ya I was like that at 1st too, but now I just keep cash on me and throw a buck or 2 into those kinds of works tip jars, I'm not giving 20% but it makes them happy and it's only a $.
Now I find myself getting annoyed at food cashiers who don't have a tip jar lol. Its a good way to get really good service & hook ups as well as making others happy
Like I order a carry out pizza. I call and get a call center now. I go pick up the pizza, they hand it to me and take my payment. I’m not tipping you. I’ve done that job at several pizza places. I paid for the pizza, it’s priced to reflect the overhead of the restaurant. If I paid $10 for the pizza, you better believe I’d be tipping them, but it’s like 20-30
Well, they are trying to take advantage of your generosity. You just have to harden your heart and become like ice.
@@ryanwiseman9141 I found out the pizza place I usually patronize gives 100% of those tips to the shift manager.
No thanks.
Reminds me of that commercial where a man is at the self checkout and the screen is asking for a tip. When parody meets reality.
They don't mention the dirty little secret that much of tipped income is not reported to be taxed - why waitstaff love cash tips. My mom was a waitress.
I tip in cash, even if I use a card to pay for the meal, because what the server does with that money is his or her business, no one else's.
A Democrat l know never gives cash tips for this reason.
@DanCooper404 I do the same! I carry cash in small bills just for this purpose. I NEVER tip with a card.
One thing I was told was to write "cash" in the tip line so that the waiter remembers that you tipped in cash and doesn't think you are a cheapskate & spit in ur food next time 😅
@@DanCooper404 meh. If wait staff choose to not report income for tax purposes, and then later whine about how little SSDI they're eligible for, that IS on them -- but if they're going to report, why risk walking home late at night with hundreds of dollars in cash? Going to go pay cash for rent?
You think you’re spilling some high level secret?
The Indian woman is a grifter. She makes a living through this fake activism.
The part about this benefits large national chains more than independents is interesting to me. I wonder who One Fair Wages largest donors are.
@@Degarth In North America, social justice agendas are almost always designed to promote corporate interests. It's the same story with immigration. What they really want is to stimulate economic demand. Her donors are likely the same people who fund the Democrats.
You’re disgusting you need to be grateful to this Indian, she’s helping your community more than Murry
@@Degarth
All mcdonalds. All are one. 😅
She has to be that educated to be so stupid.
The reality is, I tip less now because everything costs more. I only have so much money to go around. When a medium latte cost $4, I would tip a dollar. Now it costs $5.50. I don't tip, and I buy less of them (bring more coffee from home).
Me too. And the local coffee shop close to where I work now charges extra for every little thing. If you get more than three packets of sugar, they charge you 50 cents for that, and they also charge for lite ice. They also tried to make me pay $1.75 for a cup of water. It's better to just make coffee at home. It tastes better anyway.
Paying that much for coffee is the problem.
I don't tip at all anymore. When waitstaff complains, I just tell them "You asked for a higher wage and you got it. Why should I still tip you?"
@@rtlau-mk4diany place that charges more for *less* ice or charges you for water is a place we should all boycott
@@teebob21they should definitely complain but just are getting lied to about who they should complain to. Private businesses should be the ones to figure out additional compensation for better employees, these owners showcased in the video have never had to be held responsible for that side of the business and it shows.
It's hard for me to be sad for someone who wants to obfuscate their actual prices and blame someone else
*Activist confronted with data*
“Well, those data must be wrong!”
Activists alway cherrypick data that show their viewpoint and when you show them the actual data they put their fingers in their ears and cover their eyes
Right! And I have good data, where is it... oh it's in the mail... I swear I sent it to you
Yeah that's exactly what someone who's just paid off by Trump would say
@@biblesforbreakfastHuh?
Data is flawed. Every single other developed country pays a minimum wage and they have exponentially more non chain restaurants than the US. Compare the number of restaurants and bars in Sydney to DC. BTW They pay over fifty dollars an hour on public holidays, yes that is a Ulysses S grant for every hour of work.
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Trump election seems to have emboldened them.
I must have missed the part about how they pay taxes on all those tips?
@@AJHart-eg1ys They only do so with electronic payments.
@@SoMuchFacepalm And was this addressed in this vid?
That woman and her smugness is absolutely infuriating. When did she ever work in a restaurant?
13:17
three times, and all 3 seem to have failed
@@juancuelloespinosa And it seems that her restaurants had to steal from the employees to last as long as they did. smdh
professional activists are hustlers and charlatans.
Shouldn't matter. Just because you worked at a restaurant, doesn't give you the right to interfere with my freedom to work.
yale law grad can't even properly run a restaraunt lol
DC area bartender here; what ppl who “fight for $15” don’t get is that this is a commission based position. If I sell $2000 I make $400. IDGAF about my hourly.
So what? You feel like it would impact your tips if people didn't secretly think you were a beggar?
@@jwfcp it would.
@@brookiegremlin6660 So cut out the middle man and sit on the curb with a cardboard sign then if thats how you really think. I guarantee that people will still tip even if you are paid a full wage, it was NEVER about pity for you and everything about the person tipping trying to up their social status by being seen as someone who tips big.
@@jwfcp you're missing the point--idc about the internal motivations of customers. I care about money. When I worked at places that paid 2.13/hour, I took home at least 50/hour in tips. My friends who currently work at places paying 15/hour usually take home about 18/hour.
Look, if this woman wants to stick it to the man for the sake of glorifying herself in her wokeness, nobody can stop her. But she's hurting the pockets of actual servers, and she doesn't care at all.
@@brookiegremlin6660 hot take but making 6 figures as a waiter also makes no sense either though and that's what you're implying you make. The burden shouldn't be on an employer or customers to pay you that and everyone else who doesn't work a tip based job shouldn't suffer just for your greed.
Lord save us from arrogant rich activist lawyers.
in CHRISTS' name We pray !
You mean corporate lobbyists, amen like reason TV
If your servers are making minimum wage, then there should be no tips, no service charges, etc. The salary is baked into the sale price, which is the norm everywhere else. Right?
"You dont know whats good for you, but my Yale degree will fix that."
I don't like that sort of talk either but if workers did know what was good for them they would of course not be going to work but just retaking their government and making it work for them instead of corporations. The problem is that workers who spend 9- 12 hours of a working day thinking for their boss don't have much time to see trough the propaganda of their millionaire & billionaire bosses so without much work you can in fact make them vote against their own interest.
The entire education and media system is designed to propagandize citizens into acting and voting against their own best interest. That of course being said the smug elites who tend to say this care more about their power & influence than they care about actually improving the living conditions of the workers they supposedly want to help.,
"... That Yale degree that you still haven't paid the loans for?"
@Exile_Sky Oh no. She has paid for hers many times over. Keeping up the act is how the money is made.
I’m in Oregon. Since minimum wage increase. We’ve gone from 14 employees to 4.
Admittedly the lowering of quality of life by heavy inflation has also decreased the number of people who could afford to shop. It’s a double edged sword.
@@SurvivalistMediaThe only way a higher minimum wage would cut jobs is if your staff was making below the new minimum wage before.
And the missing 10 workers are now earning the true minimum wage = $0.
@@SurvivalistMedia Imagine putting a direct tax on a business they can't get around. Minimum wage should be $0.
@@bradleyhanson - Of course. But prior to the minimum wage increase, the position paid the wage that the position justified and people were willing to accept. Once it was mandated that the business must pay more, the business owner found a way to continue without that position and the person formerly in that job is now unemployed. Even if the unemployment was just temporary and the person found a new minimum wage job, they still lost their job.
My problem with tipping is that it is everywhere now. It is one thing to tip someone when you go to a sit down restaurant you plan to give a tip and is a treat, it is another for it to be expected and food carts, for pick up, for fast food, etc.
why are some people worthy of tips but others arent? why is the fast food worker unworthy of tips?
@nicholasstachelrodt1668 Kind of why I don't think tipped wage should be a thing. We are obligated to tip because it is an assumed majority of their salary regardless of the actual service received, though the tips usually don't go to the people who actually cook the food. I understand that and rarely go to sit down restaurants, I also never get spa services of professional haircuts for the same reason. I might be able to scrap $100 for an occasional facial/massage or something but the extra 20% kills it for me. I also then have to tip extra when I go out with people from cultures where tipping isn't a thing and they would stiff the server compounding the cost for me. Now the expectation has shifted to food carts and cafes, so I am just done. I would happily pay more up front for a place that doesn't allow tipping, but I am deeply in the minority on that one. Because I abide by the cultural expectation, I have to subsidize for the people who aren't tipping. At this point, I'll just make my own. The quality of most restaurant food has gone down so much, the food I make will usually be better anyways.
@@nicholasstachelrodt1668 because they don't provide table service. The tip was always about paying for the service, not the food.
@@bbgun061 So they both work their ass off but one just gets paid more than the other just because? "sorry you made 300 burgers in an hour instead of carrying 12 plates this hour so you make less than half the money"
@@nicholasstachelrodt1668 Everyone gets paid according to the deal they made with their employer.
Restaurant servers get paid directly by the customers they serve, which is the deal that they accept when they take the job.
No one is forcing anyone to work fast food or to wait tables. No one is forcing restaurant owners to pay minimum wage to their employees. They are free to pay their servers more and put up signs saying, "please don't tip." I've been to at least one restaurant like that. But if you ask your waiter which he would prefer, he'll probably tell you he'd rather get tips.
As a customer, I don't like tipping culture, but if the waiters and waitresses like it, who am I to tell them they're wrong?
The inevitable truth is that the true minimum wage is, and always will be, $0
"if they could pay you nothing, they would". so sad to see workers advocating against themselves.
@@deafinitaly5948not advocating against themselves, advocating against government power.
@@deafinitaly5948 It truly is
@@deafinitaly5948 Bro thought he cooked but he burned himself.
@@deafinitaly5948False! True minimum wage of $0 just means you take a job... or not... based on what they are WILLING/ABLE to pay, and what you're WILLING to accept. The market will correct itself.
As someone who has worked in food and beverage for 15 years, the only tipped employees that I've worked with who wanted to implement a minimum wage were the employees who sucked at their job. I dropped out of college and I've seen people who graduated come and start doing exactly what I'm doing because the job they just spent an ungodly amount of money on doesn't pay as well as the restaurant job they had during college.
True , even during 2008-2010s same issues!
Explains why it's Zs who most want to do that. I drive Uber and like tips. Min wage means spit in your food and a missing server on their phones the entire visit.
The non productive making excuses as usual…
And of course, that organizer will never work in a restaurant. But she will get rich, costing other people their jobs. Just another Grifter if you ask me.
Exactly. I always took tip jobs instead of a set wage and made way more money. I worked as a bagger for tips only in high school and made way more than kids at mcdonalds or burger king. Moved on to delivery driver because tips i made up to 6k some months. Now i work in sales for commissions. Set wages are trash if you have social skills.
I was a waiter in NYS, when my wages went from $5/hr to $8/hr my yearly tips were reduced ny $30,000 the first year.
Damn son. Really. It's 10.65 an hour now in NY btw. When were you a server? And where if I may ask?
That woman is a sociopath. You can tell by how she blames the victims of an initiative she pushed.
professional organizers are narcissists. they don't care who they hurt, so long as they can engage in public moral posturing.
She's just a communist. They think they're doing good.
Normal behavior for a Marxist
I remember in college, the students that worked part time tipped jobs made bank. They left college with low debt.
Strippers pay cash for college.
We need to abolish the income tax so that everyone can be as well off as a tipped college student.
@@JodyBruchon no, but if you get past college or over the age of 22 and are still worried about minimum wage, then you screwed up. Minimum wage is a live at home with my parents wage, not a middle class wage to buy a house on and raise a family while you have no skills. Get your skills up first and minimum wage won't even be a topic.
@@zulubeatsprince OK, since you don't understand, let me be clearer. We need to abolish the income tax.
When ego and economic illiteracy collide, we get higher prices, businesses closing, and joblessness. Depressing.
Min wage hikes never kill jobs, how about you pay for your own luxury spending instead of expecting the govt to bail out your cheeseburger.
@@jwfcpit depends on how much. Nobody wants a balance; double or nothing is a crazy ultimatum. Wish they had some workers mention on the low end instead of acting like waiting tables is always going to have good pay.
@@MrVariant No, its not crazy that working people be able to pay their own bills. That you have successfully delayed fixing a problem for decades isn't an argument against fixing the problem. Reject communism, embrace capitalism, say no to handouts and pay full price or your burger.
@jwfcp As someone who has had to quit a job I loved because of losing $400 a week in time and a half pay from my paycheck due to my wage being raised, and has many friends and family members that have lost their jobs because their company needing to cut costs to afford the minimum wage increase, I can confidently tell you that you are wrong about wage hikes never killing jobs.
@@Eatbutternow "losing $400 a week in time and a half pay from my paycheck due to my wage being raised, " Thats insane gibberish, stop going onto the internet and lying to people. Look at how wages were a dollar an hour in the 50's, surely employment must only be a small fraction of what it was then? No, you insufferable putz. The dollar is simply worth less now, you need to spend more of them to get the same stuff you wanted.
I live in California & the $20 minimum wage lost me my job. Lots of people lost their jobs, or had their hours cut. Now going out to eat cost more & service is worse. The crazy thing was I read articles claiming this raise had very little impact on restaurants & employees. That's BS!
If you made under 20 in California you already were buttered ass broke
That minimum wage law affected fast food....you were earning tips at burger king?
@xtreme242 It affected more than just McDonald's & Burger King! Ask the 1200 drivers at Pizza Hut that lost their jobs. They fell under the law too. The problem is in CA most food service places are franchises owned by regular people not corporations. They don't make the same profits as corporate stores! There was no job growth people just had to get 2nd jobs because their hours got cut.
That's false. Economists said no one would lose their job when minimum wage went up, therefore you're lying. Conservatives said people will lose jobs when the minimum wage goes up, and they can't possibly be right.
I suspect these are the reasons why the democrats lost. So disconnected from reality through their annoying virtue signaling.
The guy who said the pay is being regulated by the voters hit the nail on the head. If workers want a higher wage they can unionize, organize, and negotiate for it. They and the business owners know what will work better than the rest of us.
Whoa whoa whoa slow down with that union talk.
@DottyMcInk it goes against the narrative.
@DottyMcInk workers are bad and stupid and shouldn’t even be allowed to talk to each other. Thats why a hive only has one queen. It’s the natural law.
Like that movie A Bugs Life.
Unionizing is not even necessary, you can just quit your job, and when a company can't hire people for a certain amount, they will increase pay.
@DottyMcInk Unions are dumb, the one and only thing they do, is allow a group of unhappy workers the ability to force happy workers to go on strike with them. If you want more pay there are many ways to negotiate with your boss to get higher pay without a union.
I paid for a good chunk of college in the 90s delivering pizza. I did make full minimum wage ($4.25) but I usually made two to three times that in tips. I was making between $30-40 an hour inflation adjusted. I was able to pay my rent, tuition, food and utilities in about 25-30 hours a week. And have no debt.
And gas was 96 cents a gallon.
Yes, it's a great thing to be a boomer.
@@phoenix5054 Boomer? Apparently you can't do math. I'm very solidly in the middle of Gen X.
@@phoenix5054that attitude is why we are in this mess. Anger toward what you assume to be boomers rather than our politicians who directly cause this….
@@JustinsGarage No. Boomers caused this. The country has been in a downhill ever since they had the right to vote.
I run a bar downtown. I pulled in $98,000 last year and 75K of that was under the table “cash” and I only work three nights a week so restaurant jobs do not all pay poverty wages
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Well, this woman's aim is to manage your income!!
Crazy I know a woman who works at Denny's during the night shift and doesn't make much money at all. How could this be?
@@nicholasstachelrodt1668 because she works at Denny's. What does she or you expect. I would expect that from Denny's. If she doesn't want to make low wages then move on from Denny's. I have a lot of friends who work in the restaurant industry. Most make between 60 to 80 grand a year, on TIPS! But guess what? None of these people work at Denny's. Denny's is a entry-level restaurant job, where one works for a year or two before moving on to a higher end restaurant, with a higher-end clientele, that leaves high tips. Your friend has no one to blame but themselves for their low wages.
@@DrVVVinKhow dare anyone work hard 40 hours a week and expect to feed and house her kids
This is why price fixing is and always will be a very bad idea and borderline immoral
Pharma (other than generic) in USA is the worst. Blatant rip-off of Americans.
I see some commenters objecting to “tip culture.” That’s fine, but this is something that can be addressed through markets and cultural debate. Passing a law to get your way is just as coercive and wrong as passing a law to mandate paying waiters through tips. There’s room for different ways to compensate restaurant workers, and we can sort it out peacefully.
We can't. It's how slacktivists are, or corporate hits hard the other way.
Most people don't understand the difference between a job where you're compensated through tips and what has become too culture.
Your Starbucks drink is $7 because the barista makes $14/hr. It's stupid that this place asks for tips.
Your Texas Roadhouse steak is NOT $40 because the server only makes $4/hr.
As someone who used to be a server both in a state with a "server minimum wage" and a state that required restaurants to pay servers the same, I made way more money at the job that was allowed to pay me less.
@@saltyluchadorick3569 Unfortunately this very real and basic truth will always be lost on the majority of people incapable of going beyond first order thinking, even if it's shoved right in front of their faces.
Forget chess, people today don't even seem capable of strategic checkers or tic tac toe. Society is dumber than previous eras.
Give people the freedom to sign the work contracts they agree to, what a novel concept. I personally like tipped income, almost as much as I like production based income. Merit based reward systems are just better than getting paid for your time.
Passing laws is literally how we do it peacefully, that's the whole point of society.
Take the hint. If the people you are "helping" don't want your help, you are doing it wrong.
@@MaskedZoo 👏👏👏👏👏👏
some yes some don't for example new york is working fine always check the data
@@Ghoxtfire I'm sorry but New York City is a complete disaster right now. It got so bad that New York City actually tried to prevent people from leaving. Same case in California. So many people were leaving that the governor attempted to add a fine for people who were leaving the states. The courts shot that down of course but the fact that he actually tried.
@@bryanshoemaker6120 the data for the $15 dollar minimum wage we have the 9 years data now you should check it
berkeley Conclusion
CONCLUSION
Reich et al. (2016) analyzed a proposal to increase minimum wages to $15 in New York State by 2021. The
report predicted that a gradual increase to $15 would not reduce the number of jobs. The results reported
here both confirm the accuracy of that forecast
I'm a European. I have watched this video, and I still do not understand the argument in support of compulsory tips. How exactly does higher minimum wage result in higher costs of doing business? Here is my understanding: I go to a restaurant, and pay a fixed amount for my food, plus some amount for a tip. In EU, the minimum tip is zero - I only have to pay a tip for outstanding service, good service does not require a tip. In US, I have to leave a minimum tip of 10% or the waiter will go home hungry. So rising the minimum wage and decreasing the minimum tip should have no effect on the costs of running the business, just make the cost of eating out more upfront. What am I missing?
An owner pays workers more, so they raise the price so they can make the same amount.
-1 owner profit, so -1 to customer to get equilibrium for the owner.
Simplest I can say, I think.
@ethanton7074 what about tips? Higher salary, higher prices, but lower tips would result in the same total cost for the consumer, so the number of consumers would not change.
@@ArgumentumAdHominemthe restaurant industry and the entertainment industry are not so black and white like your argument. It's dependent on when people can come and and enjoy the food. If I pay more in food I cannot tip as much. Also if you tip in cash it is easier to hide. Tipping provides more freedom and flexibility. This industry is not 9 to 5
@chasingsunsets87 it does not answer my question though. Here is a concrete example. If I pay 50$ for a meal, can I tip less than 5$ if I did not like the service. If yes, then you are right. If no, then there is no difference if it is a cost or a tip.
Tax evasion :)
The part that drives me most insane about this is that these advocacy groups talk about protecting the little guy, but the only people who benefit in the long run from minimum wage increase is the big corporations that can eat the costs and now have less competition as smaller businesses go under. Whereas every time someone supposedly is better off because their wage increased, a couple of months later they're already talking that it isn't enough because either their hours were cut, or inflation already ate up the additional income. In Ontario when our minimum wage jumped to $14, I was working at a salon that had 11 staff that immediately shrunk to 9, and we were getting fewer hours on top of that. And when our prices increased to reflect the new wages, people started tipping less as well. I'd say it was about $500 less in my pocket at the end of the month after all was said and done.
they are trying to benefit themselves, by creating fake controversies so they have work to do. advocacy is a grift.
@@BBB_bbb_BBB logic and facts don't matter to these people. Its about using force to coerce ppl to do what they want, its a power trip and a deep hatred of freedom and America in general.
The problem is wages should have raised steadily. But soo much money was spent keeping it down that...yeah $15.00 hour sounds alot...cause it's $7.75 more than federal minimum wage of $7.25. The last time the wage was raised was in 2009...if only it raised little by little each year to beat inflation.....WE WOULDN'T BE STUCK IN THIS SITUATION
@@johnbees4443 problem is wages should raise naturally per the market and demand. You cant just pass laws and raise wages and think itll solve problems. It always creates more problems and kills small businesses thats why now you have nothing but mostly large corporations in the states unlike other countries where small businesses are everywhere thriving. Raising minimum wage is just more woke virtue signalling.. minimum wage is 0. Factor that into your activism.
NO MORE TIPS, NO MORE TIP WAGES FOR COMPANIES!!! The whole tip culture needs to be scrapped! Why should we foot the payroll for businesses? Why should certain people get tipped for their jobs while most workers are not?
Back in the 90s minimum wage was a lot lower but you were able to receive raises.
My first job out of high school after only a couple years I had six raises.
Only got 1 raise in my life 27 and that was .50 cents 😂
but you depend on your boss for that and most people have bad bosses
@Ghoxtfire no, not at all. if you don't get raised then you leave the job. Even a bad boss is not willing to risk that if you are a good worker. Especially if you're doing the work of four employees.
@@bryanshoemaker6120 they are willing to risk it because for every people they fired they can get 20 more
Massachusetts beat this back! The Restaurant Association fought hard and all the tipped employees voted NO. "One Fair Wage" got obliterated in Massachusetts. Saru Jayaraman is pure evil.
I also got to vote no on 5. It was kind of shocking. Deep blue state that goes along with almost every form of online progressive cause, but the referendum was unpopular at every restaurant.
And when you consider the sort of people who typically vote in Massachusetts, that’s very heartening. I was PROUD to vote against it!
Im in CA. A friends daughter works at McDonald's. She worked a minimum of 35 hour per week, after the minimum wage whet up to $20 per hour for fast food workers, she now works 3 hours per week. The government really helped her, make less money, but hay, she makes $20 per hour.
I do not like the tip system it is like another tax.
Rich kid trying to save the working class. Giving herself big Pat's on the back for nothing.
I work construction, where's my tip ? 😂
There is very little tipping culture in Europe, yet restaurants function. How is it that only American restaurants cannot survive without the tip compensation model?
They’re built with that model in mind. Why should it matter to you whether a business accepts tips as part of its business model? Why should the law dictate how businesses can accept payment and the manner in which their employees can receive some of that? If you aren’t in the industry, I don’t see why you should get to decide. If you are in the industry, I don’t see why others should get to decide for you.
The issue is you can’t compete otherwise. If you try to start a restaurant that doesn’t utilize tipping as the majority of the staffs income. You’re still competing with those who do. Imagine if two people start restaurants both equal in every other regard, same cost, overhead, staff numbers, literally equal in every other cost. The only difference is one pays 10-15 more an hour to tipped staff, and a lil more to boh. And the other simply don’t gaf and pays the lowest wage boh will accept and 2 bucks an hour to everyone else. Well obviously that cheap idgaf guy is making more money. That means he will open more locations than you and beat you out of existence. As he gains more locations things won’t be so equal when he uses his scaled up operations to undercut you at every turn.
It really is as simple as I’m a body builder. Do I want to be the only guy not juicing up. Sure I can always say I’m subjectively morally better, always did the right thing, and take pride in my self righteousness. But when I lose at every single competition it’s 100% cause I wasn’t juiced up 6 months out the year. Small 5% advantages turn into 20% advantages over time. And unless everyone is brought to follow the new rules the people that don’t will just keep winning. And restaurants in general are a scale required industry to make serious money. Major chains simply have far more advantage over companies with 1 or a few locations. So shooting yourself in the foot by disadvantaging yourself is dumb. You would be better served being cut throat until you’re scaled up and than being more generous. But most people don’t operate that way so it’s rare.
Something else that I as a service worker would love for Reason to investigate is the activists that campaign to force small businesses to be handicap accessible. Most businesses can't afford ramps. A coffee shop in a historic neighborhood may not be able to change the facade of the building at all. In my progressive area there have been many boycotts of businesses that weren't handicap accessible, robbing decent people of jobs and ultimately robbing the community of businesses that were serving them. People don't understand that not everywhere can be accessible or that if you want places to update their layout, you have to support them so they can afford it. I hate to say it but it truly is a lot of privileged people punching the little guys.
Thanks for the suggestion, we can certainly look into this. We always appreciate tips from our audience.
@@ReasonTV "We always appreciate *tips* from our audience."
Pun intended, I'm hoping.
We must flatten all mountains, because I am not fit for mountain climbing.
@@sanniepstein4835 I have a Natural Resources (from a college in NY) degree and we discussed a case (in NY) where a handicapped person wanted access to a wilderness area. They literally put in a gate and a paved road for that handicapped person to access the wilderness area. The one defining factor for a wilderness area is that it is supposed to have no human influence to it, including roads. So in essence, they destroyed the wilderness character of the designated wilderness area because of the ADA laws (that the courts said supersede the wilderness laws.) So, yes, flatten the mountain because the one person was not able to climb it.
Progressive activists destroy everything they think they're helping.
Easy solution, end tipping! Personally I do my utmost to avoid any place where a tip is expected. I can easily go to the counter myself to get my food from the cook, only takes a few seconds.
I’m tired of subsidizing waiters and bartenders wages plain and simple; now a days they want to you to tip 20 to 30’and in some cases 40 percent of the bill? Screw that it’s already getting too expensive to go and then you want to get pissed with me because I leave 10 bucks on a 100 dollar tab? A tip should not be expected and I don’t even tip anymore; i got kids to feed and a home to maintain
I told my friend the same exact thing. If you relie on tips and your boss is not paying you, that a you problem. Not the costumer job to pay your salary. Learn a skill if you need money
...AGREED...TIPS HAVE TO BE EARNED WHICH BOOSTS UP COMPITENCE
....OTHERWISE,IT'S JUST THE SAME WAGE
I'm glad that woman isn't trying to save me. What a disaster.
This is the only industry where your pay was decided by the customer and not your employer
Apparently you aren't familiar with strippers.
In exactly that fashion yes but many sales jobs work in more or less the same way. Your pay is overwhelmingly based on how you sell to customer, the same as a waiter from my experience in those roles
Which is a good thing. Employees get to keep 100% of the tips. If the employer collects the money from the customer, they keep part of it for themselves.
@@ScottMStolz That's unequivocally false. There's no legal regulation or protection for wait staff to get the tip provided by the customer. It could be equally divided among all wait staff, a percentage can go to the chef/cooks/runners/dishwashers. Restaurant owners could take a percentage out of the tip (not just for CC fees). You have no idea what's going to happen to the money you put down on the table.
@@YaYousef5 The worker agreed to work at the restaurant. If he or she doesn't like the rules of how the tips are split, then he or she can leave for a different place to work. Doesn't have to be restaurant specifically, which leads to a multitude of different opportunities. Especially in the age of the internet where jobs can be done online as well.
I made 72k in one year working in fine dining while being in school full time (online sophomore year community college)
I love tipping!
Lol of course you do, tipping is exploitative of customers not the few workers who make a good living.
Nice. What State?
Get rid of tipping
I already have. I don't tip for anything anymore.
dont get rid of it, but get rid of the awful culture of "shame on you" if you dont tip everyone. tip should be if you got exceptional service, not if you put my food in a box and handed it to me!
Be like Mr Pink in reservoir dogs. Tips are BS , tip if you feel like you got good service , but usually the cooks don't get tipped .
Raising minimum wage is bad for small businesses. And
Reminds me of the minimum wage passed by Cuomo. I was working back at a food service job and studies had come out years ago that a 10% increase in minimum wage results in something like a loss of 25% of hours/income iirc. I brought that up to our manager when the law was passed and they denied it, but what do you know, each shift lost one worker, and as it eventually rolled higher while I was a shift manager who worked on inventory, payroll, and scheduling, and we had to cut 25% of the hours again.
These people are either stupid or lying with statistics
"Before you click the thumbs down, it's just going to ask you a question..."
Add a tip?
20% 25% 30%
Don't forget about the best option of all: "No Tip" or "Skip" 😎
@@everythingisfine9988 They put tape on these option now man 😅. It's just horrible
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dude you need to make 25% you minimum tip obviously.
@@Coverpage2568 F-that! Don't pay and leave. Not playing/paying those games
People who want this don't care if they ruin a business or the workwr who no longer has a job. It's about feeling moral. Here in Washington they changed the minimum wage and businesses used to be able to count tips towards that wage. Now they cannot... Restaurants said we can't afford it and people were like then you should go out of business. Crazy.
If a business is exploiting people then not existing is a good thing. Someone else will take their place who can have an ethical form of a restaurant industry.
They are not supposed to😂😂😂. Op just glorified slave labour
@@jeffreyrodrigoecheverria2613ethics don’t pay wages. Making a profit does.
@@GojosMiddleFinger it's not slave labor if people applied for and agreed to the job. you people sound like such spoiled bratts. Yay for these people out of a job to make you feel morally superior.. when you literally employ and provide for no one, but let's shame people who actually help others and their community. Shameful.
@@jeffreyrodrigoecheverria2613 that is one of the dumbest things i ever heard. It's not a slave wage if people seeked out and applied for the job and kept working there.. have you thought maybe they like their job.. spoiled bratts
One of the problems with bartenders and waiters is that they spent years convincing people they live in near poverty that people think they actually don’t make even minimum wage. I think 90% of the population would be totally surprised how much full time waiters and bartenders make.
Oh the Irony that she calls tipping “racist”, while promoting the minimum wage, which ACTUALLY rooted in racism.
You don't know what racism is
@@falcorthewonderdog2758 Discrimination on the basis of race.
The tipping exemption is part of the minimum wage law so... It was carved out originally for a reason. Tbh though I didn't agree with any of the opinions presented in the video @@cbl6520
@@falcorthewonderdog2758 The history of minimum wage has roots in racism.
I think the activist said tipping has roots in slavery, not racism, though it is easy to conflate the two.
I'm sorry but I've got to say it. This is what always happens when you increase minimum wage. Small businesses go out of business and fire staff and nobody seems to care.
Remember this is not supply and demand. No one is competing and doing it better somewhere else. This is artificial from the government.
Minimum wage is never about the worker's situation, it's about the activist's feelings and ego.
This is not what the economic data from Europe says and if that happens in the USA it's mostly because owners and companies are allowed to punish their workers for voting against the bosses interest. Why the fuck so many workers feel this deep seated urge to defend their bosses against the 'evil' activist one can never be entirely sure but the billionaire media propaganda probably goes a long way.
Small business usually never lasts to begin with as most fail.
I wonder how much of that is due to the minimum wage?
why is the customer suppose to be the payroll for staff.
I mean... that is how it works in all of business. It's just that you see it so upfront in the restaurant industry because they directly ask you to tip.
Why should it be illegal for both customer and staff voluntarily to do that?
as a former pizza delivery driver, yes the tipping aspect sucks. being called a "waiter on wheels" sucked, and I'm happy i left that job years ago. I'd be open to getting rid of the tip credit system too, it feels like its to benefit the owners most of all; customers are the ones that are having to make up the wage difference to workers.
Then don't work the pizza job.
There are many jobs you can choose from. Even jobs you can get online that doesn't take much to learn how to do. Simply, you need to spend that that tidbit of time to find the better job you want.
@Slugma-kx7pv again, FORMER, as in of course I left that job. However with such an additude about it, I hope you don't order delivery yourself and go pick it up yourself
The very reasons that tipped staff love tips is the very reason customers do not. We don't want to be responsible for the payroll of the restaurant's staff.
The minimum wage started out as a means to enforce segregation.
CA voted down a minimum wage increase, so the CA legislature is going to pass it.
Jayaraman : "I can't hear you! I can't hear you! Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!"
As a former waiter, I hate the tipping system. That said, I loved how on slow days I just did homework and read books... making like half the minimum wage. These goons pushing for crazy minimum wages would say i shouldn't be allowed to do that and it would be better for the owner to send me home. Minimum wage decreases the flexibility in the marketplace.
I'm curious why you hated the tipping system. From the consumer perspective, I like it because if the server does a lousy job then I am justified in providing less compensation. In other words I believe it encourages/rewards better service.
I waited tables at different restaurants. Sometimes tipping sucked because a lot of people believe tipping 10% was a good tip. It's not. Every restaurant I worked at had tipout too where I give 4% of my tip to other workers(hostess, busboy and bartender). I admit I wasn't the most charming waiter but I always did my best to get people their food and drinks. If you're in a area with good tippers and able to get people to connect with you you'll make good money. Otherwise the pay is not terrible but just mediocre.@@ronrothrock7116
Wow, 3 failed attempts to put her policies into use and she locks in even more. (Props for trying) The power of cognitive dissonance is profound in this one. Then supporting her cause with erroneous statistics is absolutely wild. Harvard and Yale must be so proud. SMH
And the irony of her organization being sued for wage theft and discrimination LMAO
Prossives
"Our policies are never bad. Anything that happens after our policy implementation never has anything to do with our policy implementation unless it's good."
"Everything that happens that's bad in an area that we're targeting with new policy is because of the naughty people that we don't like. It never has anything to do with anything else."
"The data that we have is awesome, but we wont share it with you even when we say that we will unless its been cooked in some way."
Minimum wage in my city is 16.28 an hour. Then they want tips on top of that?...
Tipped positions make less than minimum. The actual before-tip wage is probably 7 or 8 dollars.
@@SoMuchFacepalm nope. Brother and room mate worked in kitchens. They get both in WA state the cooks and the servers. Its the law. You get the minimum wage plus tips. I have had CNAs quit because the make WAY more as servers than they do working in a nursing home.
@@msJjbluematrix Huh, must be one of those state-by-state things.
@@SoMuchFacepalm Yeah. I heard in some states they pay like 3 bucks an hour or something because they assume they get tips? That's crazy! How is that even legal? What if you don't get tipped all day?
Notice, there were not any dishwashers, bussers or prep workers invited to the conversation.
I noticed and as a former busser, it’s why I left the business entirely. Too much corruption from waiters AND management alike. Been witness to it, don’t want it anymore.
@@BigBlack81 Exactly, without the whole team, there is nothing. The waiters and waitresses are in it for themselves. Tips should always be shared within non management employees.
@@josephcalp1604 You agree to the conditions of how the tips are distributed.
Imagine voluntarily agreeing to the arrangement then complain when you regret for the choice you made.
Because screw small businesses amirite?
A lot of small businesses don't have an incentive to hire servers or bartenders because they don't have the flow into the business at a particular time, but a server or bartender might take a position knowing that people will come into be served by them. That's why tipping works better than just a flat wage for restaurants and workers.
When it comes to chain restaurants, it's not as simple, especially when big corporations can keep the cost of the meals low compared with a small family run establishment with higher costs. Smaller businesses tend to be better options for entertaining than corporations and therefore forcing a higher minimum wage just drives the market towards consolidation, which no one wants.
Perhaps those big chain restaurants are the ones financing her? To push out the smaller competition? Or perhaps some in the government are behind her financing? I hear the servers regularly report lower tips than they really get so that they don't may as much in taxes. Maybe government wants those tax dollars?
Nice pfp
I worked in Back of House
And I dont understand why no one tips cooks if the food is great
It is amazing that a cooks makes so little but a person taking a plate to the table makes 20% of the bill.
I have specifically left separate tips for wait staff and cook. And yes I made certain ( asked the cook) that the cook received their tip.
She’s just a damn busy body. Mind your own business! If people don’t want to work for a wage then they won’t do it!!
I wonder if restaurant workers would change their mind if everyone stopped paying tips. It's not the consumer's job to help pay workers' wages.
Minimum wage is minimum wage. People need to understand that moving that number up doesn’t change the fact its still minimum and everything above will just adjust up and with the speed of computers and analytics, analysts who come up with pricing numbers and competitive salaries, the adjustments takes less than a month to shift up. Apartment renters and groceries will adjust almost instantly to give themselves a raise as well.
Force the labor to be more expensive, you make the end product more expensive. Worse you eventually throw people out of work.
I mean you could say the same thing to say that child labor is good in China. Or the child labor would be good in the US. That doesn't make you good at talking about Labor politics. But the US government is now very unethical with Trump at the top so go ahead with your stupid logic.
How is Trump being at the top suddenly justification to shit on labor politics in a way he isn't even responsible for yet?
@@biblesforbreakfast China is a lot poorer than what is portrayed. Parents feel compelled to send their children to work because they don't make enough to support the whole family. This was the same in the USA until parents could afford to keep their children out of working and focus on other aspects in their life, like education. The ones still doing child labor was the government, forcing children in government orphanages to do work.
The difference today in the USA vs. China, China is applying worse and worse restriction on the private sector. Thus making people poorer altogether. When you complain about it online as a citizen under the rule of the CCP, you're censored by the millions of CCP censorship workers who go severely underpaid while also manually assessing thousands upon thousands of content per hour. All without breaks.
This woman sounds like an industry plant. she was sent to wreak havock on Independent business owners under the guise of helping minimum wage workers
California's $20/hr. mandate for fast food workers has caused the closing of thousands of franchises, with the subsequent loss of tens of thousands of jobs.
The Carls Jr I used to go to and the one my late younger brother worked at closed. Sucks that those people lost their jobs. It was open 30 years.
Critics of the American tipping system are so numerous that it has become a cliché, though it's funny how almost none of them have ever actually worked for tips.
I don't need to have been a burglar to make that claim that I don't like being robbed . . .
(No, waiters are not thieves. It's a loose analogy before someone jumps the shark)
??? i worked for tips and now i advocate for people to not tip if they dontwant/cant afford to.
this scummy advocacy and the USA culture around tipping are 2 different conversations
I live in Oregon where waiters/waitresses are mandated to be paid the same minimum wage that all other workers make ($13-15/hr depending on where you are). On top of that I'm expected to tip 15-20%. Every time I eat out I seriously reconsider my career path, because I know I will earn more under those conditions than I do at my current job. Either these folks should get paid a regular wage or they should earn a much smaller wage and earn those 15% tips, but not both. It simply makes it too expensive to eat out. I, personally, prefer the tip method because it rewards good service. If the servers are going to earn the same no matter their service level, then there is no incentive for them to provide outstanding service. I guess this is what you get when people appeal to emotion and not facts/logic; broken policies that hurt everyone.
Why not make every single job tipped then if it creates amazing service?
@@nicholasstachelrodt1668 Because not all jobs are service jobs? But if you are referring to those jobs that ARE service jobs, then I don't see a problem with that unless the service is expensive, like doctors and healthcare, for example. But there are other service jobs where this won't be appropriate either. For example the cashier at the grocery store. Technically speaking they are service jobs, but there is very little in the area of "quality of service" that has any real meaning.
But I can give you an example of there this did work well in another service job... When I was in high school in the late 80's I worked as a grocery bagger for the base commissary (grocery store). It was right at the tail end of paper bags before switching to plastic. The cashiers were hourly, but the baggers were TIP ONLY! We earned our pay by being quick, efficient and effective. Those of us who could bag fast, keep like stuff together (ie frozen with frozen, non-food with other non-food etc.) and keep the squishables/breakables intact would make good money. We also packed these bags into the trunks of the shopper's vehicle, and doing so fast and efficiently was part of that service. It worked fantastically!
So, yes, I think tipping-only for quite a few specific service industries would be quite effective.
You aren't required to tip. Tipping is a gratuity.
Worked sometimes hourly and other times for tips. Earning tips was hit-or-miss, but an important experience I wouldn't've wanted to do wothout. Know the many unintended consequences before you take that option away.
If businesses close because they can't make enough money to pay their employees, then they need to go out of business. We don't need slave labor jobs. Tipping should be abolished, and prices should be set to what employees were making before tips were abolished. If people normally pay $25 + $5 tip for food, then the price should be $30. None of this bull crap pity money. Tired of random strangers chasing me down in the parking lot because they didn't get what they expected.
You really don’t understand economics and didn’t listen to the video. You are probably and government or highly removed corporate employee. I’d also say you didn’t go to school but then you could be an indoctrinated employee.
Waiting tables was the only good paying job available to me before finishing college. I am so disgusted by these elitist activists who are, in effect, fighting to lower the pay of wait staff and bartenders.
We are from the government and we are here to help.
Gov needs to get out of the free market and let workers and companies work out what's best for themselves on a case by case basis. One size fits also just means that it fits no one
It’s a red flag when the leader of a political movement tries to appeal to celebrities instead of the actual workers she claims to represent. The slavery claim is so wild and out of pocket. Good on the opposition for speaking out.
Will she ever have the humility to admit she was deeply wrong?
I don't think so. Becauae she's a non binary Indian
She's a democrat so no, not at all.
Will any of the RNA COVID vaccine pushers admit they were wrong to mandate the vaccines? No, they will not admit they were wrong, because they believe they "did it for the right reasons".
Once all power becomes concentrated in the state and the Communist Utopia emerges from the ashes she'll be proven right...
No, of course not.
God forbid the boss receive less pay so his workers can earn a fair wage
Bosses work harder and we need to kiss the hand that feeds. Hail Trump!
I'm glad that i no longer need to feel guilty to not tip. They are happy with the position they are in. Good video 👍👍
Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.
-Thomas Sowell
1 fair wage is just a grift. Not a single good intention in sight.
Bingo.
Australians pay wages, we dont beg
this reminds me a lot of covid. unfortunately, "facts" and "data" don't actually mean truth. so we all tend to show only the information that supports the reality we want
If you're making $15+/hr, then I'm not tipping.
Tipping culture needs to be cancelled, now a days even mac D and subway want tips. Even a pick up option they ask for tip. These people make lot of money without paying taxes
Just say no. Tip "problem" solved.
As a lifelong chef and restaurant manager I can tell you this only applies to servers and bartenders because often they out earned us as chefs and managers. People who work in the back in most places get bs pay. The national restaurant association is one of the largest lobbiest. Servers make more than that at any okay restaurant but you'll never know because most don't have to claim cash tips. Mcdonalds doesn't have servers and look at their prices. They are skyrocketing regardless of type of restaurant.
Wage laws are a violation of property rights.
So what's a solution to mitigate the race to the bottom that motivates employers to pay people peanuts?
@@carultchfree market
@@Tusk_Tact😂😂😂😂😂😢😅 FREE MARKET
😂😂😂That's hilarious. 🎉
Tell me...why is the wage raising now? Is it because we finally reached a point of where the juice isn't worth the squeeze?
@@johnbees4443 Actually the free market IS what is causing it to go up. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 and many states still have that also. But if you look at what the bottom end wages are actually being paid is quite a bit more than that in those areas. So, what is your evidence for why wages are increasing now?
The rest of the world works without tips. The issue is not the wages but rather the ludicrous real estate market preventing businesses from having much left over for wages.
The National Restaurant Association estimates that 20% of restaurants are successful, with 60% failing in their first year and 80% failing within five years. And that is giving the owners the ability to unfairly pay servers.
“Unfairly” is hard to say. The servers have free will they can absolutely go elsewhere to be paid what they are worth
The really stupid part is expected tips have gone up from 5 to 10 percent, to 20 to 30 percent. They also love to blame inflation, but they clearly don't understand how percentages work.
If a business requires exploitation to exist, then that business should not exist.
So workers accept keep blocking initiatives to get a higher wage because they make more than minimum wage would guarantee, with tips.
But this is only possible if customers are guilt tripped into into tipping a lot.
So that argument that we hear that waiters arent paid enough, so we have to tip at least 20% is by design, and its the actual waiters that want this to remain?!? I feel less inclined to tip 20% now. Since they themselves want to ensure the wages are low and we are forced to tip higher.
I worked for years in restaurants. I knew servers that made $600 to $800 or more on a Friday night. I was a chef and had to work all week to make that. Tipping today has gotten out of hand. Now a cashier wants a tip. A tip for taking my money.
11:25 Calling it a "savior complex" is a perfect description, applicable to most activists. The "for your own good whether you like it or not" mindset is born out of a sense of superiority.
Great journalism Reason!
Everyone here saying “restaurants are a commission-based system” without realizing that instead of allowing tipping or raising minimum wage we should instead execute a system were employees earn FIXED percentage of all earnings.
There: you solve the minimum wage and you also solve the “not giving a good service because wage-based systems don’t encourage effort”.
All jobs should be percentage based. All of them.
"data is confirmed by the new york times" lol, lmao even
When I discuss minimum wage with someone who says it should go up, which isn't often, I ask (I am an annoying person), "Why not higher? Why not make it $30/hr? Why not $40/hr? Why not make it $50/hr? We could all make $100,000 a year."
They want it that high, but they are just smart enough to realize they have to start off smaller.
All jobs should pay $200 and hour or more. No less. People have value, and we should pay them for existing and showing up.
I delivered pizza for two years in college in the '90s. I worked four hours on Thursday - Saturday nights then an eight hour shift on Sunday for minimum wage plus tips. I cleared over $500 per week and told the IRS about less than half of it. It paid better (per hour) than my first two post college jobs writing software.
I honestly hate tip culture, I see it as a business forcing the customer to compensate for the lower pay they're paying their employees, not tipping is an option, but I also don't want to look like an asshole, so tipping is kinda required. There are nations that see tipping as a bad thing, I want to get there, where we see the *tipper* as the asshole. I understand that means higher costs for what I'm buying, but that higher cost should go towards paying the employees more.
The fact one guy in this piece said he made in one day, what some office workers make in a year is super telling that we need to kill tipping, it's basically an extra tax on the consumer.
I don't endorse a minimum wage at all, I think that's stupid and the business should be able to determine what they want to pay their workers, if someone is willing to work for less, who cares if both people are in agreement to the terms of employment? As a libertarian, I think we need to make that the business of the employee and employer, not the government.
Just don't tip
@@everythingisfine9988 and look like an asshole? I gave a 5 dollar tip on a $20 bill once at a Chinese restaurant and I got the nastiest stares from the staff on my way out, you thought I just walked out without giving them anything with the evil eyes that were being shot at me. If I could avoid tipping I would, but I also like eating out and not worrying about people spitting in my food because they remembered I didn't tip.
So when comparing a tipping culture and one where people just made a wage, do you think you would get the same service from both? I tend to think that if people know they will earn more for doing a better job, they will do a better job. What is your take on that?
We provide automation to restaurants so these restaurants can cut their labor. It’s an exciting time for restaurants which can embrace it.