Waffle House is increasing pay for its U.S. workers after a push from labor advocates. In a video message to employees late last month, Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers III said base pay without tips would rise to at least $3 per hour in June and then gradually rise to at least $5.25 per hour by June 202
Wages are guaranteed money. This is good for employees, if no one comes in you still get paid. Sure you might get less tips but at least you know you'll get a steady paycheck.
Before people come in talking about how employers have to make up the difference if tips don't get them to minimum wage....
That's based on the entire pay period, not per shift. So if you make decent tips the rest of the period, you're still being paid below minimum wage at like $3/hr for the slow time.
Yep. Fewer tips while retaining a living wage should be the goal. Tips remove the burden of the livable wage from the business and place it on the consumer, where it will never be guaranteed. Lots of businesses likely have completely untenable business models if they had to pay fair wages without tips.
Let's stop having the average person subsidize companies.
My da loves traveling south specifically for Waffle House and Buckees! We don't have then in the north/midwest, so he's always excited to revisit them.
Yep I lived in MN and often found myself craving good Southern food and food spots. Lots of things I liked about the Midwest but the food was not one of them, very bland