Originally posted by jeffkrol
Restaurants down here pay servers and bartenders 2 to 4 bucks an hour. And not only don't servers report all of their tips, the owners FIRE servers every 10 months to keep the cycle going. So, even with what you're saying, the most they can legally hope for is $7.21 an hour.
WOW!!! BIG BUCKS!!!!
Get it? None of this means anything!
Bartenders can make 60 to 70G easy in a lousy place, and in the good ones, God knows how much they can make. And that's where the ATF and Florida counties point them out to the IRS.
But as far as minimum wage salaries go, they don't follow it because it's meaningless. I have never heard of a restaurant owner having to compensate an employee for earning under $7.21 an hour. Hell, WalMart and McDonalds pay better than that to start.
Of course, in those restaurants that cater to Canadians, servers are lucky to clear 9 grand a year.
Cheap, cheap, CHEAP! Which is why they have no problem supporting a brutal dictatorship in Cuba, just to save a few bucks on their vacation. It's incredible arrogance.
And they come to the U.S. during the cold months to vacation and use our superior health care system, which they don't deserve.