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Originally Posted by dw1
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.
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Restaurants, and servers are not a new thing. They have been around all my life. Servers that are worth a crap can make great money. I live in a suburb of Oklahoma City, and it is known as an upscale place. We have one large state university, and one private Christian university, and many of the wait staff I chat with are students getting a degree.
We also love a little Italian restaurant that is right in the middle of town of Main and Broadway. One great waiter likes us as customers since we are not hard to please, and I am a good tipper. He said his room mate for the house they rent is a framing carpenter for new house construction. The waiter is making more money than the construction worker, and he does not have to contend with the outside temperatures, and he get one free meal per day during his shift.
Don't get me wrong, it is not I job I want. But is is one that will never not be needed. It was not a problem for generations of wait staff. Now there is a shortage. It make no logical sense.