This was originally going to be a comment on a different post from this sub but it got looong and I’ve been wanting to say it for a while since I think waiters perspectives are somewhat lacking on this sub.
If servers were paid minimum wage, with little exceptions, THEY WOULD ALL QUIT. take it from a server, serving can fucking suck, you do the best you can and still can get treated like crap for things outside of your control. Your coworkers can bail on you and now you’re doing the work of three people and on busy nights you’re there a least an hour after closing just to finish closing up. If I was told tomorrow that I’d be paid 10-12 dollars an hour to have to all this I would quit. There are less stressful jobs that pay the same. But in our capitalist batshit country the only job I can get as a college student that even gives me a chance at making a living wage is one where my employer doesn’t pay me at all. ALL JOBS NEED TO PAY A LIVING WAGE. for small business, like the one I work for, I get that they actually cannot afford that, so the fucking government should help!!! Small businesses fucking help the economy grow, provide jobs, AND ACTUALLY PAY THEIR TAXES. Fuck giving the millionth tax right off to American oligarchs, the government needs to give aid to small businesses that actually need tipping so they can pay a LIVING WAGE and still be in business.