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Article Source: The Orlando Sentinel
Florida Restaurant Association is pushing the legislators in Tallahassee to LOWER the hourly wage for servers and workers in the hospitality market thoughout the state.
The Restaurant Association, a VERY powerful sledgehammer organization insists that they cannot afford to pay (decent) wages, to those that stand on their feet and carry heavy trays full of bad and good food.
The powers-that-be in charge are hell-bent on breaking the backs of every hard working human being in the nation. As to those, that desire employment in a restricted economy, they may as well shrivel up and blow away.
Trying to survive, is getting harder every single day in America.
#1 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:48 PM ESTI cannot believe they are even considering this. I have advocated forever they should make at least a base of whatever the minimum wage is period.
This is possibly my biggest pet peeve in the food industry. Restaurants have gotten away with this low wage stuff forever, expecting the customer to pick up the slack while they pay a waitress $2.75 per hour and the bus boy even less and then expect them to live on your tips while they keep raising the price of their food. I don't mind tipping for good service; I do the same with my hairdresser, etc. who certainly make more, but I object to the expected 20% and I object to the fact that it is a necessity rather than a thank you. Service continues to fall and yet if you go and don't tip for bad service, if you go back and get the same servers, you can expect something awful, like spit in your food. It's not up to the customer to make sure the owner has profits; it's up to the owner, and $2.75 per hour is outrageous on any level. Why should a server make less than she/he does at McDonald's, leaving it to the customer to directly pay their salary.
The Restaurant Association is a POWERFUL lobby that dictates as they see fit. As the server works for a pittance of survival needs, the restaurants cut back on the quality of products and they come out the BIGGGGGGGG winners!
Knowing the "dirty little" secrets, I gave up going into restaurants many years ago. The only control that one has over what they eat....and how clean the facility is, is to just make a choice and stay-at-home.
I have no tolerance for a lot of the system, the older that I become. Politics has become more than just a "dirty game" as they cater to business over the rights of the masses of human beings. Care facilities bring in BIG bucks for corporate owners. The state eliminated the means by which to sue a facility for the mistreatment, abuse and death of loved ones in those poorly run facilities.
The hospitality industry has flown under the low standards in Florida as they have served "dirty food" in filthy restaurants. Inspectors for the hospitality industry and the nursing industry, both being very strong entities in a state catering to the tourists elderly, have been CUT back severely.
We, human beings are left with very little today to be proud of or pleased with. The nation has become a land of "me" attitude with thievies that steal by all the means possible.
#2 - Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:45 PM ESTDo not eat out. Call the State inspector if you do not like mice droppings in your food. I worked for a big food company where the company food inspectors were Rabbis. If they walk into a co-packing plant and they did like what they saw, they could void the contract on the spot. There was a case where an food inspector went into a ice cream plant. On the product line he open a container of ice cream dump it on the floor and ask the general manger to join him in a meal. I know what happen. If the general manger would have not sat down and had a snack the plant would have been closed. But you have the retailer who can do things to food that would turn your mind to only eat out of a can. Which generation are you. Are you the "ME"generation the ones who are now owners of these greasy spoons.
#3 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:54 PM ESTI've been around the bs. most of my life, as a vendor, than into sales....etc. I "prefer" not to eat out.
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