Tipping Death

Good morning to all the hard working citizens that make a living at Mcdonald’s or KFC. How is the food going? Are the customers being polite? I’m very proud of you with your career choice. That 8.05 an hour just isn’t enough! Anyone that works in the fast food industry deserves 15 useful dollars an hour. You people work so hard for your money! Not to mention the government card with 600 dollars a month for food stamps because you claim the five kids you work so hard for. Lets not forget firefighters make 15-17 dollars an hour. Which I mean, both jobs require the same kind of hassle. Fast food workers should make the same because they work just as hard. Fighting the grill heat! Why shouldn’t fast food workers get paid the same amount of people

Another big topic of conflict perspective is raising the minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour in fast food restaurants. Many workers at McDonald’s feel they cannot survive off the state’s minimum wage, so they went more to make a living. Many owners at McDonald’s and other fast food restaurants are now combating the employees demands by installing touch-screen cashiers, like the ones at Wawa. Still employees feel suppressed by those establishments because as stated in this article McDonald's Announces Its Answer to $15 an Hour Minimum Wage with New Jersey minimum wage set at 8.38 an hour (8.38 x 8hrs x 5days =335.20 x 52weeks = 17430.40 a year before taxes) is not enough to survive off from. Still McDonald’s states and argues that, “Fast food

Tipping has emerged as a major method of compensating wait staff ever since the 1960s when Congress passed the provision within Fair Labor Standards Act legislation which introduced the “tip credit” (Allegretto & Cooper, July 10, 2014). The FLSA provision set the minimum wage for tipped employees at $2.13 per hour, given that the employees would ‘earn’ $7.25 per hour from tips. The government considers employees who earn more than $30 per month as tipped employees. The tipped minimum wage has adversely impacted tipped employees, which includes barbers, stylists, wait staff, doormen, etc., such that they need to provide a high level of service so they can receive generous tips. The tipped minimum wage provision assigns tipped employees to high poverty due to their low income salary levels.

Tipping is a form of gratitude and reward for your waiter or waitress. In some states, tips are waiters and waitresses only income. The other majority of wait staff does not earn a complete pay check, but only about half of minimum wage and they tend to bank on the bulk of their funds coming from their tips. Tips are not a form of compensating the wait staff, but because they are not paid enough it supplements a wage to help them survive on. Tipping is generally a part of corporate culture. Corporate culture usually encompasses the ways work and authority are organized, the ways people are rewarded and controlled, as well as organizational features such as customs, taboos, company slogans, heroes, and social rituals (Brickley, Smith, & Zimmerman, 2016, p. 366). Also, tipping gives the wait staff incentives to work hard to earn more money. Furthermore, this motivates them to make sure they give customers satisfactory service to ensure a hefty tip in return. Waiters and waitresses work harder than any other employee in a restaurant. They come in early and help to prep, clean, refill condiments, and ensure silverware is rolled

As a recent employee in the restaurant industry, first as a hostess and later as a waitress, I have had the opportunity to experience the system of tipping not just from a customer’s point of view.

Have you ever thought if you were a worker and you think you should get paid more an hour? Well the fast food workers at Mcdonalds get paid (their minimum wage is $7.25 an hour). And some people think it should really be $15 an hour because they really do work hard like making sure everything is clean to have a space to work with, practice their skills to get their food ready fast and so they can enjoy, and lastly knowing how to welcome their customers. Like so, “A first wave of fast food strikes began in November 2012 in several New York city restaurants”. They are protesting to this cause because “That for many would boost their hourly pay to $15 from the current federal minimum $7.25”. (Article ½)

I know that tipping is an important culture in America.Of course,there are a few advantages, for example it can not only promote the quality of services provided by waiters, but also it strengthens the belief of “Hard work will bring rewards. ”. As we all know, basic wages of a

The fast-food workers are expressed as a pond in a bigger game. They have to deal with their low pay in order to ensure low prices by these franchises. Jencunas concerns go on to represent the beginning of a bigger chain effect. Briefly, he states that, “The average fast food store would go from profitable to unprofitable overnight. Some would close immediately, leaving their workers worse off than they were when working for $7.50 an hour, while others would raise prices and try and remain in business, hurting consumers” (“Don't Deserve Any More, or Less”). Evaluating his reasoning we see that if fast-food workers ask for a higher minimum wage, they will in return influence the profit margin and actually increase unemployment rate in this industry. The researchers go on to inform us that if their minimum wage increases the industry won’t be able to afford the change in their profit margin and result in bankruptcy. However, Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, which supports the fast-food strike states a different claim:

Most people do not understand what a critical factor tipping plays in the amount of money that waiters or waitresses make. There are over a million Americans working as waiters or waitresses today (Rind & Strohmetz, 2006). Servers today are in great demand and they generally make at least 80 percent of their salary through tips (Hesser, 1999). As researchers have studied how and when tipping takes place, it has been broken down into three main categories characteristics of the dining party, characteristics of the server, and server-diner interactions (Rind & Strohmetz, 2006). There are different techniques that restaurant servers can do to increase their tip amount such as providing the customer their name, being extra helpful, or putting

In a country like America, money is something that can (and will) determine life or death for some people. Workig in the food industry as a server is never anything that someone aspires to do, its usually a job to help them keep food on their own table and clothes on their backs. Food servers deserve to be paid as much as they work for. People tend to forget that the people who work for them need to be able to support themselves financially as well. The server wages should be increased. While there are some complications that could arise from this change, a solution coud be just as easily created.

“Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do, but it makes for good business”-Jim Sinegal, CEO of Costco. Many of America’s employees are not being paid well, however, for the annual income of a full-time employee who works year-round is less than $16,000 (about $15, 080) according to the current federal minimum wage (Rebuilding). To put into retrospect how out-dated the federal minimum wage is, consider that the minimum wage of 1956 amounted to exactly $7.93 in 2009 (Henderson). How progressive is it that our nation’s workers being paid less today than workers from the 50’s? The federal minimum wage should be raised in order to assist families out of poverty, to ensure the effort and loyalty of workers, and

Receiving money is always a good feeling especially to those who live and work in the US as a part time or full time jobs, but has it been taken too far? Think of it this way, wages and money earned are like the overall grade on a test or quiz. Not everyone is going to have the same preference and complexity in others like teachers. Tips are like the extra credit on a test from a previous assignment done correctly or a question answered correctly, it rewards the student without penalizing them. However, in the US, we tip way too much and give people the benefit even though they didn’t do a great service, which is why we should reduce the tipping amount and have social pressure preventions for this.

Before prohibition Increase in alcohol filled society and according to prohibitionists Americas only highlight of life was to get drunk. Between 1900 and 1913, Americans began to drink more and more, beer production jumped form 4.6 billion litres to 7.6 billion litres and the volume of tax

The article that we are critiquing is aimed to assess the blow of increased minimum wage from $4.25 to $5.05 per hour in 1992 on the employees working in fast-food restaurants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The author has shown two comparisons in this study. The first comparison is the employment growth rates at the fast food stores in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, before and after the minimum wage raise. The second comparison is the change in employment rate from fast food stores (in both states) that pay higher wages initially to the lower wage stores. Krueger Card concluded that there was no indication or signs that the minimum wage increase, decreased employment

Labor issues are still the No. 1 concern of most restaurant owners and managers. Food and beverage costs are held in check through price adjustments, portion controls and through purchasing efficiencies. On the other hand, labor costs are not controlled by paying low wages. First, the minimum wage sets the floor for the price of labor in the United States.