Michael Regilio
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 12 Jul
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And that pretty much just pays the taxes, which is why when I say I was a waiter in Massachusetts, I would regularly receive paychecks for $0 unless I had a really crappy week in tips.
And then sometimes the paycheck would be upwards of $12.
Yes, to be honest with you, but technically no.
The law is written so that if you don't make money in tips, your employer is supposed to make up the difference, and that should be at least the actual minimum wage.
No, no one can live off of $7 an hour.
The federal minimum wage in the year 2026 is $7.25 an hour.
Ha ha ha.
Okay.
And for the record, in my 15 years of waiting tables, I never met one person for whom the restaurant ever made up for bad tips by boosting their wage.
It just doesn't happen and it's not enforced.
Let's not make it sound like pure feudalism here, Jordan.
That was $2.13 an hour.
Yep, fold napkins, clean silverware, take out the trash, clean the mats, you name it, all the restaurant duties.
But instead of making $7 an hour, I was paid $2.13 an hour for manual labor.
Yes, you're correct.
But that is also what anyone sitting in a boardroom for a giant hospitality company will tell you.
But here's the argument against it.
You noticed that I said when I waited tables in Massachusetts, I made the sub-minimum wage.
Then I moved to California, and California is one of the states that makes restaurants pay their employees the minimum wage, like the actual minimum wage.
Wow, a full $7.25 an hour?
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