On 5/17/2013 10:18 AM, barbie gee wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 17 May 2013, jmcquown wrote:
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>>> On May 12, 3:29 pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
>>>
>>> Still open. Read their facebook page. they are still screaming and
>>> crying!The comments are hilarious.
>>> https://www.facebook.com/amysbakingco?fref=ts
>>>
>> It now says on Facebook:
>>
>> Other Side of Amy?s Baking Company Controversy in Scottsdale To Soon
>> Be Told
>>
>> SCOTTSDALE, AZ. MAY 15, 2013 -- Amy?s Baking Company will host a Grand
>> Re-Opening on Tuesday night, May 21, following unflattering portrayals
>> on national television.
>>
>> Customers will be able to decide who is correct: a famous celebrity
>> chef or the marketplace that has supported the small, locally-owned
>> business for six years.
>>
>> When re-opened, a portion of proceeds will benefit a charity organized
>> to bring awareness to cyber bullying.
>>
(snip)
>> The owners will likely be holding a press conference before the Grand
>> Re-Opening and answer falsehoods depicted on a reality television
>> show, including assertions that the restaurant confiscates tips from
>> servers.
>>
>> In fact, wait staff is paid $8-$14 per hour, two and half to nearly
>> five times the standard hourly wage for servers.
>>
>
> This should be amusing!
>
Almost amusing enough to make me wish I was in Scottsdale. But not
really.

> No matter how they edited the footage, there is no way that some of
> their behavior is okay. The food? Who knows. The two of them need to
> let someone else manage the front of the house for awhile. Keeping tips
> is inexcusable, however.
>
I definitely don't believe what they claim they pay their servers.
(Maybe they will *now*, but...) Surely when Ramsay expressed disbelief
to the server about not getting to keep her tips she would have said,
"Oh, it's okay. They're paying me plenty!" She didn't, because they don't.

Besides, customers don't know what the servers are being paid. Even if
they did, if they want to give them a little extra that's their
business. It doesn't belong in the owners pocket.

There's a petition on change.org initiated by people trying to get them
investigated by the Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division for the
charges of tip theft. It's pretty clear from the video I watched the
guy *admits* he keeps their tips.

Jill