The actual fuck? MOST places let the employees have a bite gratis. It is one of the very very very very few perks of working in an eatery. Hell, Dominos expects it so much they budget for it.
In the Midwest there is a McDonalds at every interstate exit. In the south it's Waffle House. It's what you eat when you are too strung out from driving to go looking for something better. But paying minimum wage when the minimum hasn't been raised in decades is just criminal. Even McDonalds does better than that.
Ta, Robyn. I've never eaten at a Waffle House, and now I shall do so NEVER. Employees everywhere should be treated fairly. That includes the shit network for which I labor.
There's a Waffle House near my home. I haven't eaten there in years, but I pass it whenever I head into town. The parking lot is always mostly empty, so I don't know how they stay in business. At lunch time there might be 4 customer cars parked in front, and often only 2 or 3. The employees park at the back of the restaurant, and customers park at the front, and there are often more cars parked in the back than in the front, which is not a sign of a healthy business.
Is my local Waffle House a money laundering operation? Because no restaurant can stay in business with that low level of customers unless there's something fishy going on.
This is insane in every way! Aren’t there labor lawyers & federal (?) laws/ agencies that can make this right for those employees. To get paid $2.90/ hr w out option getting tips while running errands for sloppy corp must be illegal, the meal thing is batshit bonkers & the safety / insta BS is reprehensible & grossly inhumane. I hope these employees get made more than whole asap
I worked in the restaurant business for many years, quite some time ago, both in jurisdictions that had a lower legal wage for tipped workers and in ones where tipped workers were paid standard minimum. In both places, restaurants did just fine, did not go out of business wholesale. Prices in the restaurants were roughly comparable.
But here's the part that has me in dismay. I worked in Ontario in the mid to late 70s, for $2.50 an hour, which was the special wage for restaurant workers. Minimum wage was somewhere around $4.50, $5.00, in that neighbourhood. 45 years ago. And the restaurant minimum, while lower than standard minimum, was roughly half as much.
I'm a WaHo fan under very specific circumstances. Something about hash browns smothered, covered, and chunked just makes me happy.
But I support these workers in their demands to not get charged for food they don't get to eat. That's ridiculous! I also agree that hazard pay for the overnight shifts is warranted, especially since the urge to eat hash browns has often hit me at 3AM when I'm very very very drunk and the hash browns are a desperate attempt to try to sober up a bit before I call for an Uber.
I went to a Waffle House exactly once when I lived in the south. Their cheese options are one - American. That is not cheese and I will happily die on that hill. Still, their workers deserve basic protections and a union will afford them those.
Apropos of nothing at all, I saw one of those allegedly heart warming stories on FB where one guy was working at a slammed WH by himself and all the patrons pitched in and helped (SO LOVELY)
It's weird that these stories are always framed as "patrons pitch in to help at Waffle House" and never "cheapass WH owner can't be bothered to pay a living wage, walkouts inevitably follow"
The actual fuck? MOST places let the employees have a bite gratis. It is one of the very very very very few perks of working in an eatery. Hell, Dominos expects it so much they budget for it.
This is some janky shit.
In the Midwest there is a McDonalds at every interstate exit. In the south it's Waffle House. It's what you eat when you are too strung out from driving to go looking for something better. But paying minimum wage when the minimum hasn't been raised in decades is just criminal. Even McDonalds does better than that.
Fifteen eggs and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St. Peter don't you call me, cause I can't go ----
I owe my soul to the Waffle House store.
Fuck Waffle House. I get folks might not have choices about work, but I have choices about spending money.
Do they have to buy everything from the company store?
Are Waffle House and Dollar General in some kind of competition for shittiest place to work on Earth?
Ta, Robyn. I've never eaten at a Waffle House, and now I shall do so NEVER. Employees everywhere should be treated fairly. That includes the shit network for which I labor.
I have no words…
There's a Waffle House near my home. I haven't eaten there in years, but I pass it whenever I head into town. The parking lot is always mostly empty, so I don't know how they stay in business. At lunch time there might be 4 customer cars parked in front, and often only 2 or 3. The employees park at the back of the restaurant, and customers park at the front, and there are often more cars parked in the back than in the front, which is not a sign of a healthy business.
Is my local Waffle House a money laundering operation? Because no restaurant can stay in business with that low level of customers unless there's something fishy going on.
This is insane in every way! Aren’t there labor lawyers & federal (?) laws/ agencies that can make this right for those employees. To get paid $2.90/ hr w out option getting tips while running errands for sloppy corp must be illegal, the meal thing is batshit bonkers & the safety / insta BS is reprehensible & grossly inhumane. I hope these employees get made more than whole asap
Is this a corporate-wide policy thing, or is this just a Georgia thing?
Either way, it's terrible!
"But nobody wants to work anymore," they lament.
I'm reading that $2.90 with dismay.
I worked in the restaurant business for many years, quite some time ago, both in jurisdictions that had a lower legal wage for tipped workers and in ones where tipped workers were paid standard minimum. In both places, restaurants did just fine, did not go out of business wholesale. Prices in the restaurants were roughly comparable.
But here's the part that has me in dismay. I worked in Ontario in the mid to late 70s, for $2.50 an hour, which was the special wage for restaurant workers. Minimum wage was somewhere around $4.50, $5.00, in that neighbourhood. 45 years ago. And the restaurant minimum, while lower than standard minimum, was roughly half as much.
45 years ago.
I'm a WaHo fan under very specific circumstances. Something about hash browns smothered, covered, and chunked just makes me happy.
But I support these workers in their demands to not get charged for food they don't get to eat. That's ridiculous! I also agree that hazard pay for the overnight shifts is warranted, especially since the urge to eat hash browns has often hit me at 3AM when I'm very very very drunk and the hash browns are a desperate attempt to try to sober up a bit before I call for an Uber.
I went to a Waffle House exactly once when I lived in the south. Their cheese options are one - American. That is not cheese and I will happily die on that hill. Still, their workers deserve basic protections and a union will afford them those.
Apropos of nothing at all, I saw one of those allegedly heart warming stories on FB where one guy was working at a slammed WH by himself and all the patrons pitched in and helped (SO LOVELY)
It's weird that these stories are always framed as "patrons pitch in to help at Waffle House" and never "cheapass WH owner can't be bothered to pay a living wage, walkouts inevitably follow"