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• Guess How Much Some Servers And Restaurant Owners in San Fran Think You Should Be Forced to Tip?

  October 15, 2011 at 12:15am

  Let start by saying Forcing people to tip is just a way of skating out of paying your employees a living wage. It means you are passing that burdon on to your customers regardless of service. Federal law alows businesses to pay servers only $4.35 an hour if they make at least $30 a month in tips. I dont care where you are at no one can live on wages like that.

  I own a bar and restraunt In a small town in iowa. I work this buisness with my wife doing all positions from bar tender to server to cook thorugh out the week and hire help to fill in the holes. No matter what position i am working I do not take any of the tips(even if I am the one who is directly being tipped). The tips get split evenly among any of my employees working that day(bartenders, cooks and servers) as everyone has a part in the service and product going out. On top of that I start everyone out at the true minimuym wage or higher and move people up in pay quickly if they prove they can earn it. This results in my employess making an effective wage ranging from 15 to 29 dollars an hour(depending on the what days they are working) in a comunity where 10 to 15 dollars and hours is considered doing good for not having a college degree. This creates an envirment where everyone in the process cares greatly about the quality of what they putting out.

• New Video Shows Self-Defense Shootout That Got a Mich. Store Clerk Fired

  September 13, 2011 at 12:27pm

  My questions would be what is the compnays policy on wepons at work and what do they train employees to do in the event of an armed robery? I worked for a tobacco and convience store when I was in college and they had a policy that you were not supposed to bring any weapons on the premesis when working. We were trained that in the event of a robbery that we were to coopeerate in every way with the robber and give them anything they asked for and to call atthorities after they left. This was entirely for our safety as employees. If wallgreens policy are the same or simulor to this hten they were in the right. If they did not do what they did then they would run the risk of having empolyees across the nation start bring loaded weapons ot work which could very easily end up with one of them getting shot in a simular situation.