I’ve seen this poster being shared over the last couple of weeks.

It sounds great.

But $22.25 would be a pay cut for most servers.

Even at the worst restaurants.

That’s only $890 for 40 hours.

I was making more than that in the 80’s not working 40 hours.

I know very few servers today who aren’t making double that on 25 hours a week.

It’s why servers do what they do.

And why they end up trapped.

Even at mall restaurants servers make more than that.

So it would be a huge payout to switch to a hourly rate.

And who the fuck wants to get beaten up everyday by the public for that price?

Yes.

The BOH also gets beaten up. Their work is hard in a different way. Should their be a more equitable pay structure.

Absolutely.

However, cutting the pay of more than half your staff is not the answer.

The person who finally figures this out the answer will win a Nobel Prize.