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I have worked in restaurants before…. Sucks
All I see is bad service
Finally left the kitchen in may 😃 they’re down to one part time cook and one per diem cook. The managers have to take turns cooking now 🤣🤣🤣
Proud of them ❤️👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
angry americans trump no longer ......
MattJPugliese Gosh, if only a million or so people would show up at the border willing to work and pay taxes. the way those jobs have always been filled.
I wonder why? Good for them. They deserve better.
I wonder if it has anything to do with a living wage? Naaaah, that can’t be it.
Agree, we Need to be Nicer Human Beings to One another...
Gee they don’t want to go back to making $2.15 an hour plus pathetic tips and no benefits? Imagine that.
Everyone has a breaking point. These essential workers are marginalized, abused by customers, and crappy wages. Hey! Where are all those folks that claim their jobs are getting stolen? (crickets)
Pay workers a living wage
Let them go
How many want to bet the last straw for these folks were 'aggressive customers'?
lol
Good. We don’t deserve them
Interesting what happens when the government steps in and pays wages without actual work being done.
I retired 2016, age 50 due to harassment, from $20/hr w/ full benefits. 2021, I'm a phone customer srvce rep, 9:30am-6pm, 30-min lunch, two 15-min breaks that are timed, for $14.50/hour. Supervisors are pleasant but the SYSTEM is anti-worker. 1 month in, I'm wondering, WTH?
In 2019, a young, black, girl was almost in tears at a California McDonalds drive-thru. The white man ahead of me cursed her for something small. I told her to tell the manager. She said, 'The manager is Hispanic...she doesn't care'. I tipped her $10 & said, look 4 another job.
Is went from a serving bar/tables to door dashing hope I never have to go back again😬 🥳
All people deserve a livable wage for their work and to be treated with dignity and respect by their employers and the public.
Yupppppp
Wait staff make $3 something an hour plus tips if their customer does tip them and walk out without paying. I would have to pay the customers bill from my own pocket or get written up.
As someone who has worked in restaurants and retail it’s about time we made a stand! I’m all set being treated like a dog for entitled mean customers who treat me like shit and even threw stuff at me. Essential workers the government calls us what a joke!
1- they need decent pay 2- they give customers what they ordered 3- a clean and healthy environment 4- polite between managers, employees and customers 5- price is too high for their quality of food
Pay more. Also, bring back public politeness. It is embarrassing how folks treat service workers and I don’t blame them one bit for saying to heck with it.
Too many people out there RPGing emperor and peasant every time they eat in a restaurant. It's fuxking nuts.
I worked in a high end restaurant for two summers as a dish washer/bus boy, the chefs were cool, the waitresses were cool, the customers were cool, even the owners were cool. You that bitch probably bitch about everything around you.
It’s time for restaurants to replace the waiter/waitress with iPads at the tables to take food orders.
American citizens now want benefits & good pay. If those industries need employees PAY them better‼‼‼ GetTheMessage BetterPayNow
Been saying it for months, it’s the real shitty krappy jobs that are left, low pay, no benefits, no retirement, no vacations, no job security. I was making $13/hr in 1982. LMFAO.
Some owners believe 'tips' are their property. So, they say the 7$ per hour is compensated with 'their' tips. Thus sometimes they shamelessly don't even give them to the workers. 'US, land of opportunities'.
Servers should be able to taze rude customers...
What will they do instead NPR?
I don't blame them. Every industry has trouble, but I've read some awful things waitresses/waiters have had to contend with over the last few yrs.
Industry leaders like chefjoseandres & WolfgangPuck need to support culinary think tanks like foodtank & help them find answers to the problems that the industry is facing today. Besides inequality perhaps security measures can be taken to remove hostile customers. JoeBiden
RevBigBabyHuey Imagine being underpaid, overworked and unappreciated and then people blame you for being lazy when you finally decide you deserve better.🤷♀️
It was bizarre talking to people about regional foods in Mexico City because people would often look at me like I was crazy. I couldn't understand what minimalism had to do with WolfgangPuck, Chinois, or Spago. I was busy looking for ham at the deli in Polanco. chefjoseandres
One day I ran into enriqueolvera of pujolrestaurant In Polanco, Mexico City where I ended up exchanging ideas with him. He looked shocked that all I wanted to talk about was La Merced, Jamon Serrano Nacional, Ceviche, & regional MX foods. He's a famous chef now. chefjoseandres
I considered returning to serving just for a little temporary bonus income. All it took was one server nightmare to vividly remind me of all the reasons it wasn’t worth it
Mexico City's restaurant scene offered few surprises. It was dominated by European & Asian-themed restaurants that looked down on the idea of giving any type of credit to upscale MX regional cooking with a distinct culinary identity, history, & gastronomic style. chefjoseandres
katroy2012 Shocked. Shocked I tell you. Shocked And there is gambling in Casablanca
I work as a cook at a school district. I get a salary, benefits, and union representation. I hope to see more folx in the industry receive better treatment (from both sides of the counter) for their labors.
I spent the summer of 2001 residing in Mexico City. While there I noticed how industry workers were treated & paid. In 2001 Mexico City's dining scene didn't have any respect for well-defined, executed, & elevated MX regional cuisine. They laughed at the notion. chefjoseandres
Did it for 43 years. It was different years ago. In US , these jobs are looked down upon. In EU, you train and are groomed full time. You are compensated. It is a trade. Here, it is a transient role of little skill. Greedy bosses, too.
lori_smoldt I know people who are so insecure that when they go to a restaurant they think that by paying for a meal entitles them to act like ass holes and get some kind of sick pleasure out of treating the servers like crap! When all they are doing is trying to do their jobs!
Retail will be next. Any job dealing with the public takes a special kind of patience, now more than ever.
Careme, the father of the theoretical foundations of the modern kitchen contributed to gastronomic history in the age of enlightenment but was never attached to Rousseau's vision of resolving i. inequality. Neither was Muro Or Escoffier. gachatz chefjoseandres RockefellerFdn
States that do NOT have state wage laws higher than the Federal include (if the employers are subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act) : AL ID IN IA KS KY LA MS NC ND NH OK PA SC TN TX UT WI WY Info updated Jul 1, '21 from:
Federal Minimum Wage is $7.25 p/hr & has been that rate since 7/24/09. $7.25 at 173.333 hrs p/m is $1,256.66 BEFORE taxes are taken out. The average monthly gross rent (for a 1 bedroom apt.) in the US is currently $1,098 a month. FightFor15
Federal Minimum Wage is $7.25 p/hr & has been that rate since 7/24/09. It has been a 12 year gap between increases in the Federal Minimum Wage history. The LONGEST gap in the Federal Minimum Wage history by 3 years. FightFor15
By the 19th-century European chefs began to reorganize, restructure, recategorize, & rethink the philosophical, theoretical, regional, practical, & nationalistic identities in gastronomy. Spanish Chef & writer A. Muro reimagined a new industry & made big strides. chefjoseandres
billm9 strikeforhumanity
The plundering of lands by European explorers who sought to exploit the Americas provided Europe with new food products never seen in Europe before. These new ingredients brought by colonizers transformed European gastronomy, local economies, farming, & regional cooking in Europe
Crap npr article, no mention of the national restaurant association, the other nra, a standard news from nowhere, no solutions, corporate piece,
The back of house is just as brutal as dealing with customers. Dishwashers, line cooks etc. break their backs making food in greasy, hot crappy environments. Stressful and shitty. I should know, I worked in kitchens in high school and college.
Most people with a basic understanding of how paid work operates understand that gastronomy has evolved from the time of Marcus Apicius to Pre-Columbian all the way to the restructuring & reorganization of the professional kitchen by A. Escoffier, but inequality still exists. LA
I wouldn't have to quit. I wouldn't even get that far. I'd be fired the very first time I gave it back hard to a jackass that wanted to treat me like shit. I genuinely could not do what they do. And so I try to be as nice/understanding as possible in a restaurant.
I. inequality has existed in the restaurant industry for centuries. As the industry evolved modern equipment became available due to industrialization. Chefs began to explore new ideas. By the time Mercantilism was replaced by Capitalism, a new world of options became available.
It really was only a matter of time before the hospitality/food service biz had to re-think their model of underpaying and overworking vulnerable and/or marginalized employees.
I. inequality has plagued the restaurant industry since its inception. From the time of the 11th century, Chinese ramen houses set low standards. Later, Greek & Roman thermopolias failed as well. The enlightenment produced Boulanger's new model but failed to set new standards.
JohnLaprise Those combinations of issues is why people walk away from jobs. Higher paying jobs would make it bearable but those too still exist! Money isn’t everything either. But if one is to survive in this would and make his/her life bearable then salary and benefits are a great start!
So they can find another job with low pay, no benefits and rude customers?
I've worked in restaurants on and off for 25 years and the most abuse I got was not from the customers but the cooks and managers. It is such a toxic environment
Restaurants & Hospitality were are a great way-to earn money to pay for college and high school. Unless you really love that business it’s a tough career.
A Call to Protect People and Nature! T'h'a'c'k'e'r Pass, Nevada, Thread to Watch/read:
There comes a time when some jobs are not worth doing if they don't pay enough.
And people are so aggressive to the kids that ARE working. I went into DQ and they had a sign that said “Be Nice to our Employees”
I think minimum wage and benefits should be the standard in any full time job… we also need to increase the minimum wage and make true 100% free healthcare available and even so I would still like to tip for the service…
The foodtank is a culinary think tank that's helping the restaurant industry challenge culinary institutions like the thebeardfoundation to demand that industry leaders, top chefs, & organizations like WeRRestaurants find immediate solutions. They should start with inequality.
I don’t blame them at all.
I worked front of house at a 4 star hotel for a decade. Hated holidays and big events because of it. Crazy busy. Stressful. Exhausting. Ppl are assholes. Averaged poverty wages. Good benefits tho. Still horrible. I don't fault a single person for staying away from that bs.
Some of the toughest jobs, a grind. As a mgr. I picked up emps who wanted to work but no car; I filled in for em if their daycare for the day disappeared; I finished shifts if their kids got sick. Emps would work double shifts for holiday pay.
Just watching the cooking shows on TV..it's a high pressure job and the pay doesn't come close to what you have to put up with. My 8 years in the Army and my 4 decades as an RN were easier than working in a restaurant!
Maybe it’s time to get rid of the tipping system in the US and start paying these employees a decent wage.
I've been in hospitality for decades. Saying 'Aggressive customers' is an understatement at the moment. I've never had such high anxiety at work until these last several months.
big businesses/corporations can be different than small businesses. Acknowledging that big businesses are part of a BIG problem our small businesses face which then trickles down to employees across the board/companies Huh, is that how TrickleDownEconomics actually works 🤨
I don't blame them. I try to always be pleasant and tip as well as I can. Even if everything isn't 'perfect'. I work 2nd job in retail and get treated like 💩. People are snotty.
better learn to cook
atownsquare Servers and support staff need to know that at the end of the shift they have at least made minimum wage. I worked many years where I would go home averaging 5 to 8 dollars an hour. Pay a living wage and make tipping voluntary.
Leaving? They left a year ago and haven’t come back!
Some how the Restaurant business has to reinvent itself in order to retain workers. People are tired of being underpaid and un appreciated. And the public needs to not be so demanding if they want to enjoy these places. Workers now know this is their chance to change things.
The core problem with the restaurant business is the restaurant business. That is that out of 7 days they have 3 highly profitable ones and out of eight hours you have three highly profitable ones. Tipped work only pays well for 9 hours per week.
I’ve worked good and it’s brutal. And in the USA, the pay and benefits are generally horrible. Why? The operator wants a 20-25% bottom line by controlling payroll expense. And that’s an unrealistic bottom line.
Covid lock down opened people’s eyes
In Japan there is no tipping. Workers just get paid.
Toppple the industry!!! Learn to cook America! Down with society!
Interesting
Amazon has 2 brand new distribution centers here paying more, another reason not to work for slave wages!
Rinse and Repeat articles over and over. Good click interactive? Post and post and post some more than find other “news” that gets people pissed of for scared and repeat.
$2.13/hour plus tips...The owners know the fix, they just do not want to do it. Paying more for staff and staying open makes more sense, imo. And non-busted businesses sell at higher prices than broken ones.
Don't forget no weekends off, no holidays off, and poverty-level wages 🙃
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