I just spoke to a friend who is also a server – she is making $5 per hour plus tips….
Her opening duties today included;
cleaning the bathrooms, cleaning windows and picking up trash in the parking lot.
This is ILLEGAL!!! They can not have you do that kind of work for $5 an hour – at the very least they have to pay you min wage for the time it takes to do that kind of work. And you CAN refuse that work. I refuse to do it even for min wage. I tell them they should hire a swamper (restaurant name for daily cleaning person). I didn’t take a cleaning job – I took a server job.