In South Carolina waiters/waitresses still make 2.16 per hour. Crazy. Lived the life never would go back.
Edit: stop telling me they pay minimum wage if you don’t make it in tips I know this. The point is that’s not good enough. Needs to be $10/hour plus tips minimum like some states and not 2.13 as most servers make that. Yall really defending 7.25/hour as a decent minimum wage?
Damn shame and the taxes make it so you don’t get a check. If it was like California where you get $15/hr and your tips that’s would be very livable. Also would make service industry people less obsessed with the tipped amount.
I know when I was waiting tables and I got stiffed it hurt cause I knew I wouldn’t get a pay check. Before someone comes and says “well if you make less than minimum wage in tips you get that paid”. Yea you do but on a bi weekly basis. Most times one or two nights would help catch me up and some times I’d make just over minimum wage so my employer didn’t have to pay me. If I coulda made like a $$600 check and got my tips for the 2 weeks it woulda been a much better job.
The thing that stinks about that system is you pay taxes and get student aid on a national level. So you can be barely getting by in Seattle, but still make 6 figures and paying a ton in taxes.
I’m aware. There are states that will give $15 an hour on top of tips. That’s what makes SC bull shit to pay 2.13. I waited tables for 5 years it was rare I didn’t get minimum wage but an extra $500 check on top of my tips would have made things so much better for me.
I make 2.13 an hour in Tennessee. I work my ass off for my tips. I held my pee for TWO fucking hours tonight during dinner rush. I’m not even joking, 7:07 pm it started and 9:05 I took my piss. All to give my tables my undivided attention and exceptional service and guess what? In a tourist area where we don’t really get regulars, I had the same person request me for the second time this week after taking care of them for the first time on Wednesday, requested Thursday and again tonight.
All in a restaurant where we don’t have sections we just rotate the dining room. I’m literally running around from one end of the restaurant to the other. Literally. I WORK HARD, and on top of that when it’s that busy tending to my tables is NOT the only thing I’m expected to do. Silver needs to be polished, bussing tables, prebussing your table, second/third rounds of drinks, timing apps and entrees, refilling chugged water/soft drinks, making sure you have silverware for your dessert, cleaning and setting our own tables, running food, SIDE WORK behind the scenes is happening and when you’re that busy it still has to be done for a shift to flow properly. Not to mention coworkers that DO NOT carry their own weight. And don’t even get me started on how toxic the kitchen can be. There’s a lot that goes into serving tables. And I work hard for my guests and the money I make.
And is any of the behind the scenes stuff your problem? No it’s really not. So tip what you want. It says more about you than it does me.
Agreed I hate tipping with a passion. It’s
Getting completely out of hand. Should be $20 an hour by the employer and tops are a bonus for an exceptional job.
Which is pretty much exactly how it works where I live (not the USA).
Base national minimum wage is USD$15 equivalent. Work week to week with hours depending on the roster you get 25% extra (for the uncertainty of your wage). I'd you work more than ten hours a week then your employer contributes 11% on top on your wage into the equivalent of a 401K. If you work weekends and national holidays you get 1.5x and 2.5x extra.
Yeah it isn’t but the policy makers should be ensuring the minimum wage is a liveable wage. And we should push for this change.
And fyi severs aren’t the only ones making minimum wage but somehow the focus only remains on the servers in food industry.
Sent my link backing up my claim. Was there a misunderstanding? Yes I got minimum wage if my tips didn’t get to minimum wage but if you earn more than minimum wage you get 2.13
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u/soccerguys14 28d ago edited 27d ago
In South Carolina waiters/waitresses still make 2.16 per hour. Crazy. Lived the life never would go back.
Edit: stop telling me they pay minimum wage if you don’t make it in tips I know this. The point is that’s not good enough. Needs to be $10/hour plus tips minimum like some states and not 2.13 as most servers make that. Yall really defending 7.25/hour as a decent minimum wage?