Also, don't some people have to "buy" their jobs. Years ago there
was a documentary that told of Matre d's in Vegas who paid up to 50,000.
for the position.....Sharon

aem wrote:
>
> Sheldon wrote:
> [snip preceding]
> > Huh? Employers are not required to pay waitstaff minimum wage now.
> > Many restaurants pay no wage at all yet highly experienced wait
> > people line up at the door for those jobs...
>
> Yes, it would be nice if industry practices rewarded those highly
> experienced people enough so they wouldn't have to line up for another
> job.
>
> > a good wait person in many four
> > star restaurants can easily earn six figures just from tips...
>
> Yes, but there are only 1 or 2 four star restaurants in Los Angeles, a
> county of more than 10 million people and thousands of eating places.
>
> > a good drink server in Vegas can easly do better than many CEOs,
> > and I mean from legitimate tips, not on their knees.
>
> Yes, many small businesses fail and their CEOs make no money -- oh no,
> that's not you meant -- well, in the casinos in Vegas and many of the
> clubs, drink servers pool their tips so the good servers make no more
> than the bad servers, and it certainly isn't as much as you seem to
> think it is.
>
> The less than minimum wage + tips system results in good compensation
> for a few very skillful servers at high-priced eating and drinking
> places. The trouble with stingy federal legislation is that it applies
> to the vast majority who do not do so well. 99% or so of new
> restaurant ventures fail in less than a year, but it's not because
> paying $2.13/hour tipped them into red ink.
>
> -aem