I came in here upset to see anti-tipping discourse on my hexbear but then I saw they're making 30/hour and if they're not talking about cutting in BOH well... yeah not a good look. I wish I made that much.

My algorithm keeps recommending the new South Park season where it appears the main cast of children have been replaced by adult women of color wearing the same outfits. I used to watch SP but I do not want to know how awful this season is.

this was back in july because they didn't have tipping AND weren't fully opened, making 30 an hour but just a couple days a week instead of the expected full week was pissing people off. not that tips would be the right solution

but i haven't heard anything since so i don't know how/if it's settled. hell i don't know if the place is fully open.

say it's friday night, you've got 4 tables per hour, each table runs a bill of about $100 and tips $20. That's $80/hr not including hourly wage. I know not every time on the clock is friday night, but i get the complaint.

Lol if you're making $30 an hour in fucking Colorado, you're getting jack shit from me besides paying the bill.

Tips work out to more than $30/hr huh. Wonder if they were split with back of house or not?

Edit: Also the solution to the question of individual people getting less hours is to just make it a salaried position that pays out a fixed amount per month, so that everyone on average ends up working the same amount of dinner rushes/slow shifts etc.

If I had to guess, it's missing context or straight up false reporting.

$30 an hour for a restaurant would be insanely high in my country, and our dollary-doos are only worth 2/3rds as much as US dollars, so this would be closer to $45 an hour for us. I can't imagine that actually being sustainable in any way for the business, so I'm guessing they have a lot of strings attacked (like you have to work insane hours or lose other worker's rights to make up for it.)

It could even be something that a lot of businesses do, where they still allow customers to tip, but don't give that money to the employees. That could be what they're arguing for.

EDIT: I do not know how much people are actually paid in the service industry in the US.

I mean yeah? With the crazy high tipping percentages that are normalised in the USA (20% is a good tip? In South Africa the standard tip is 10%) when combined with how expensive restaurant food and drinks are, provided with the fact that tips are mostly cash so you can avoid paying tax (someone else in the comments has already mentioned photoshopping pay slips), good waiters and waitresses could easily make more than 30 an hour during peak hour shifts, and back themselves to make up the difference there vs earning a flat rate during both peak shifts and midweek slow shifts.