A former boss of mine once gave a girl a 25 cents an hour raise when she asked for a raise. Worked out to about $20 over the period of two weeks before taxes.
About a year later there was a situation where he thought he was going to lose 5-6 core workers (ie his sntire staff) and he immediately bumped them all up to $15, proving that there is power in numbers. This was about 3 years ago.
Listen, if your business survives on paying the bare minimum to your employees and counting on them to use government supports to survive to work in your organization, you are not a "job creator", you are:
I'm recently former FOH, lost a great GM position because the business got absolutely wiped and they could no longer afford to pay me. Instead of trying to get another restaurant job I took a pretty decent pay cut to work in a different industry for one reason:
I'm so fucking sick of customers. I can deal with shitty owners, lazy and unreliable co-workers, and being overworked because of short staffing, but after 10+ years in restaurants the people that demanded restaurants be open so they could go out in a pandemic just to bitch, moan, and throw tantrums about everything finally broke me.
In addition to pay increases and benefits, restaurants in general also need to have their employee's backs and not make us have to put up with the absolute bullshit that people think they can get away with when it comes to how they treat service workers. Unless we can ditch "the customer is always right" I don't think you're going to have any veterans want to come back
BuckRowdy on May 10th, 2021 at 16:35 UTC »
A former boss of mine once gave a girl a 25 cents an hour raise when she asked for a raise. Worked out to about $20 over the period of two weeks before taxes.
About a year later there was a situation where he thought he was going to lose 5-6 core workers (ie his sntire staff) and he immediately bumped them all up to $15, proving that there is power in numbers. This was about 3 years ago.
GoodAtExplaining on May 10th, 2021 at 18:58 UTC »
Listen, if your business survives on paying the bare minimum to your employees and counting on them to use government supports to survive to work in your organization, you are not a "job creator", you are:
An industrial user of government welfareThaWZA on May 10th, 2021 at 19:14 UTC »
I'm recently former FOH, lost a great GM position because the business got absolutely wiped and they could no longer afford to pay me. Instead of trying to get another restaurant job I took a pretty decent pay cut to work in a different industry for one reason:
I'm so fucking sick of customers. I can deal with shitty owners, lazy and unreliable co-workers, and being overworked because of short staffing, but after 10+ years in restaurants the people that demanded restaurants be open so they could go out in a pandemic just to bitch, moan, and throw tantrums about everything finally broke me.
In addition to pay increases and benefits, restaurants in general also need to have their employee's backs and not make us have to put up with the absolute bullshit that people think they can get away with when it comes to how they treat service workers. Unless we can ditch "the customer is always right" I don't think you're going to have any veterans want to come back