Summary: Server Wages Should Be Increase

From about 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM, many customers come in for lunch and from 5:30 PM to about 8:00 PM, there is a dinner rush. During these periods, servers receive many tips due to the large volume of customers. But during the period between the lunch and dinner rushes and the period after the dinner rush, generally, restaurants receive a lot fewer customers, which is something I can attest to having worked in a restaurant this past summer. During these down periods, servers are not acquiring many tips, which means they do not have much to supplement their hourly wage.

Raise the tipped minimum wage: The gender wage gap is vividly observed in tipped workers. The federal tipped minimum wage, which hasn’t been changed since 1991, only pays workers $2.13 per hour. According to the Economic Policy Institute, women make up two-thirds of tipped workers and are 70 percent of food servers and bartenders, occupations that comprise more than half of the tipped workforce. Tipped workers have a higher poverty rate than non-tipped workers, and 46 percent rely on government assistance to make ends meet.

By law, they are getting paid the correct minimum wage amount, but very underpaid in the basic human needs life. They aren’t being paid enough in their eyes, but in Texas, they’re being paid the perfect underpayment. Of course, there is going to be controversy everywhere, whether we should raise or keep it the same. For some, it’s fair. It’s the perfect amount for the people in the minimum wage position, but for the minimum wage workers, whom, in fact, work very hard for the families they have to support, it’s very little and they have to work extra hard to earn more money. Texas should bring up the minimum wage

A 2015 Purdue University study found that raising the wage of fast food restaurant employees to $15 or $22 per hour would result in a price increase of 4.3% and 25% respectively, or a reduction in product size between 12% and 70%.

Life as we know it is changing and maybe not for the best. People are making life-changing decisions without a second thought every second of every day. Is this the way anyone should be living their life? (TRANSITION?) Many who have or currently work in restaurants and other places of business within the food industry are demanding higher compensations without knowing the negative repercussions that could arise and take effect. It was recently discovered that, in 2014, around 71% of Americans favored an increase in minimum wages, yet less than half knew or understood the positive and negative effects that came with higher wages (procon.org). That is a very striking statistic and goes to show that people need to be educated before making a decision that could ultimately change the rest of their lives. I used to be one. So, before filling out your ballot and checking ‘yes’ or ‘no’ for the proposition to raise your state’s minimum wage that sounds so appealing, take a minute to understand what you are choosing, you may be surprised what you learn. In the end, it is your decision and freedom of choice to support or oppose the increase, but I believe we should stand against raising the minimum wage for all except servers who receive the tipped minimum wage of $2.13.

If the minimum wage goes up, this would affect profits as well as number of employees working at the restaurant. Currently the firm is able to hire a large team of servers at each location. This allows them to cater to each customer's needs and to complete orders on

In a time, full of child labor and cruel treatment, an opportunity to live better appears, and one thirteen-year-old should seize it. Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson, is about a thirteen-year-old farm girl named Lyddie who is in 1800s Vermont. She and her brother are sold to work to pay her farm’s debts. Lyddie goes to Massachusetts to work at the mills and looms, where she is treated unfairly. One day, she hears about a petition circulating for better working conditions and is torn on signing it.

The reality is that salaries have not been increasing fast enough to keep up with inflation. In the article “PRO/CON: Living Wage for Fast-food Workers?” it states that “It would be $17 per hour today instead of a meager $7.25” proving that salary is not increasing as fast as inflation. In “Mcdonald’s Raising its Minimum Wage, but Some Say it’s Not Enough” it is said “Mcdonald’s projected by the end of 2016, the average wage rate for employees at its company-owned locations would exceed $10 an hour.” Even with this slight increase wage theft that is being performed by many fast food companies makes it difficult to support a

The minimum tipped wage should be raised. There are many reasons that an incease is due. The tipped minimum wage has been the same since 1991. And yet, the cost of living continues to rise. It has risen by 75% in the past 27 years due to inflation.

Minimum wage is currently at 7.25 (Furman) if minimum wage goes up so does everything else, so it wouldn’t make a difference. Food cost will go up, such as milk sugar, and everything else we use on a daily basis. Not only that but, It could cause a store to shut down due to having to pay employees twice as much as before. Labor cost would be high and unreasonable. If the prices of items or product being sold doesn’t go up.

People working in the lowest tier jobs are wanting to be paid more than the minimum age which is currently $7.25. The minimum wage should not be raised at all due to the fact that these jobs are EASY. Yeah sometimes they can suck and not be any fun at all but it’s not hard. Jobs at fast food restaurants are meant for teenagers and old people. If you’re a middle-aged person it’s time to grow up and find a different job and stop trying to get paid more for a simple job that a 14 year old could do. People are protesting it to get it raised to almost $15 which is absolutely crazy and irrational. It’s a low paying job for a reason. It’s not meant to be made a career. An example of a job that pays minimum wage and

In many studies recorded by Raise the Wage, it states that, when the San Francisco Airport had a raise in pay, employee turnover drastically dropped from 95% to 19%. As well as 35% increase in working performance, employee morale improved 47%, 44% drop in for disciplinary issues, and customer service improved 45%. However this is not only the San Francisco Airport is not the only place where improvements were found in employees, by raising their pay; home care workers located in Bay Area also had turnover drop by 57%, and in Los Angeles there was an average 17% lower rates of turnover in firms where pays were higher. Fast-food employees were also employed longer and were commonly found to have full-time jobs when minimum wage was raised. Many companies including Costco, have taken notice of the improvements in workers when payed higher, a Business for a Fair Minimum Wage stated, “[h]igher wages benefit business by increasing consumer purchasing power, reducing costly employee turnover, raising productivity, and improving product quality, customer satisfaction and company

If non-tipped employees were to be paid the amount they are demanding then we would most likely have less eat-in restaurants open around the U.S.A.. That would effect family time, get-togethers and, other special occations. As it states in Sever Wages Cannot Be Increased "If Waffle Now were required to pay servers the higher wage (they) I might need to raise the prices of our menu items to cover the wage increase." Most Americans do not like

I strongly feel that the minimum wage should stay the same. I have had a job before and I worked around people who wish the minimum wage would go up but honesty I could have cared less. I found out that the people that were complaining about the pay were the ones that didn’t help them self in life. So my point of view is you really can’t help someone who has not helped them self. Just from personal experience I can tell

Back in 1966 The United States we established that tipping services should have a set minimum wage; It was set at 50% of the current minimum wage at the time. In 1991, when minimum wage was 4.25, tipping wage was at 2.13. (Stuart 2) It has not changed since that day in history. Contrary to the major accepted practice that tipping helps servers make more money If we abolish tipping, we will be able to lift those working in the service industry out of poverty, provide a better work environment for restaurants, and develop a new system to show gratitude towards those who do an exceptional job.