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Posted on: Nov. 17 2015,9:19 am |
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A good waiter or waitress will turn 25 tables in a shift depending on time of day. Depending on the place and if they don't have a dead beat clientele(probably Expat) they'll make 15-20 % tips. When I tended bar just out of school I could usually depend on taking home $60 to $100 plus per night in tips. This usually worked out to about $17 hr+ and this was in the early 80's.
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Posted on: Nov. 17 2015,3:05 pm |
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My wife worked as a waitress when she was going to school and she averaged over $20 an hour
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Expatriate
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Posted on: Nov. 17 2015,5:17 pm |
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Pay Workers a Living Wage Act
Senator Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), and Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)
The Pay Workers a Living Wage Act phases in a $15 minimum wage by 2020 over 5 steps, increasing to $9 in 2016, $10.50 in 2017, $12.00 in 2018, $13.50 in 2019, and $15 in 2020.After 2020, the minimum wage will be indexed to the median hourly wage. The tipped minimum wage will be gradually eliminated.
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/downloa...169,798
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Posted on: Nov. 17 2015,6:02 pm |
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If I go to a restaurant and I know the wait staff is making $15 an hour I'm probably not going to tip them.
By the way, f^Łk Elison.
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Posted on: Nov. 17 2015,8:36 pm |
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Sure replace them we with machines that sounds great! Now you have to hire "high skill" maintenance employees to service and repair the machines. I work in a mechanized food factory and these machines are not perfect and sometimes can be down for hours at a time waiting for a part or software fix. Your still going to need plenty of support staff to clean, supply, receive packaging/ingredients, etc. Oh, and don't forget the metal detectors that will need hourly checks and maintenance. You don't want your valued customers chomping down on a screw or metal shavings. The moment I walk into a restaurant and see an ordering kiosk and a machine making the food is the moment I turn around and walk out.
Why do people whine and cry about getting minimal service from minimum wage employees? 
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Posted on: Nov. 18 2015,4:56 am |
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QUOTE ^^ and if we move to a $15 min everything else will follow accordingly, rents, food, clothing etc. Then any business that is left in this country moves overseas. The gov will have to go into spin overdrive to cover the unemployment numbers even more.
but the dems would declare it a success.
And the union thugs would collect their pound of flesh.
In 1938 when FDR and the Democrats brought US the first minimum wage law the Republicans and Business bemoaned, we can't pay those wages, that's a job killer, we'll go broke, the economy will collapse!
What happened, the exact opposite, because a higher minimum wage puts more money in the pockets of people who will spend. That spending (trickled up) to business, which in-turn hired more employees the entire economy prospered!
We need to lift these people out of poverty level wages, get them off the Government Dole, not only will these people be above the poverty level, they'll be taxpayers, Government revenues will increase, Social Security and Medicare funds will increase while Medicaid costs shrink, this is a true win, win for all of US..it'd be my prediction, when work pays our overcrowded prison population will also shrink.
We're NOT going into uncharted waters, it worked for FDR and the Greatest Generation, it'll work for US. Several other Industrialist Nations already exceed the $15 mark, we're talking $15 five years down the road...
QUOTE By the way, f^Łk Elison.
your Klan sheets are showing...
Edit: the opinion piece you quote below is written by Walter E. Williams, his libertarian views are that of a Republican on steroids..austerity measures at this point would be the biggest mistake we could make! Let me cut to the chase here, the decade old article is as irrelevant to this discussion as you, hooplehead...
To counter Mr. Williams hypothesis, I've already posted income statistics form the Social Security site proving this libertarian hasn't got a clue!
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Posted on: Nov. 18 2015,5:14 am |
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^^
I find it frustrating idiots like yourself have no idea what so ever as to what it takes to run a business but you seem to know-it-all.
http://fee.org/freeman/minimum-wage-maximum-folly/
By the way, this was written by a black man, your stupidity's showing 
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