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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
We like to go eat breakfast on Sunday mornings at a local place just two miles from out house. They have built a second restaurant, and want to open it. Construction is done, equipment is in, ready to go. They can't find employees to staff it to the levels they require.
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It is surprising that are using a restaurant to make your point. In most states restaurants are permitted to pay servers significantly below minimum wage because "you can make it up in tips" (which rarely happens) and most employees have little or no medical coverage.
In my experience, it is has also been not uncommon for the support personnel (dishwashers, busboys, etc.) to be recent immigrants because the pay is so small - minimum wage at best. This is not a recent thing, but goes back to at least the 1970's (and historically well before that.)
Quite some time ago I worked in a restaurant and in a warehouse. I would take the warehouse job hands down, as I believe would many others.