#Restaurant Workers

[iww-gnv]

Chicago officials are considering raising the minimum wage for tipped employees as part of a proposal that could alter the restaurant industry.  Last month, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson proposed an ordinance that would put the city's minimum wage for tipped employees on the same level as non-tipped employees. The bill has been cosponsored by 25 members of Chicago City Council. The current minimum wage in Chicago is $15.80 per hour for those who work at companies with 21 or more employees and $15 an hour for those working for businesses with 4-20 workers. The city's minimum wage is adjusted for inflation.  Currently, tipped employees are entitled to $9.48 per hour with larger companies and $9 per hour at smaller businesses. 

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#news #chicago news #chicago #us news #usa news #minimum wage #restaurant workers #labor news

[odinsblog]

#lol #service workers #restaurant workers #workers rights #waitresses #the customer is always wrong #the customer is always right #waiters

[apathyislikeawoundedsoul]

When the waiter takes your plate with your silverware on it

#my gif #the santa clarita diet #restaurant workers

[sweaters-and-vertigo]

honestly WHAT gives customers the idea they can just touch me or flirt with me. this is a restaurant, i’m a worker, and you’re a customer. that power dynamic becomes very uncomfortable when people decide to abuse it.

don’t rub my shoulder, don’t rub your hands across my back, don’t rub my arm. don’t pull at my clothes!!! don’t fucking TOUCH ME.

also!! don’t call me “sweetheart”. don’t tell me that my hair “smells really, really good” as i drop your food off. don’t ask for my number. why the SHIT would you do that??

#customers are the worst #i hate customers #customer service experience #customer service #why the fuck #why does this keep happening #dont touch me #restaurant workers

[angeletombee]

Cool. My shoes are totally fashionable for 1845 Ireland.

#potato talks #potatoes #potato farming #restaurant workers #restaurant life #the bear #this is real life kids #summer struggles

[melicmusicmagic]

When you sneak into work on your day off and order your own food, but you use your code:

#restaurant woes #restaurant workers #thank goodness im in workout clothes or they'd want to put me to work #it's so busy 😂

[antifacountryfella]

6/2/22

first two days of "training" are in the books. tonight was "friends and family night" so we barley had any customers; it was good to start getting the hang of things and realize what we still need to prepare for (we don't have BITTERS or EITHER KIND OF VERMOUTH)

tmrw is our "soft open" ie we are opening fully tomorrow, but aside from the signs in our windows saying so, all of our advertisements are going to say that our opening day is Saturday the 4th. so that's good, tomorrow will be another day of getting used to how things roll but with a skosh more customers hopefully.

i made a bunch of crushes today- three orange creamsicles (vanilla vodka + orange juice) and then the next round was grapefruit, orange, pomegranate, and orange. next customers who came upstairs (cuz yr "boy" was on the roof today ayyy) just got a couple corona premiums and one michelob ultra. and wings. lol idk why I'm listing out all the drinks i made this is insanely boring to read i bet.

oh! and my, manager?, trainer?, idk what her position is lol but anyways I made her shift drink which was a Georgia Peach. its basically a LIT but instead of triple sec its peach schnapps, and instead of sour mix/lemon juice its sprite and instead of coke its a splash of cranberry juice. I tried a bit of it, and even though I HATE tequila I thought it was very good! I'll have to remember that when I start getting shifties.

one more things before I go: WE GET SHIFT DRINKS!! I was asking about what we are allowed to get as a shiftie and they seem pretty generous. all of the drinks on our cocktail list are up for grabs, and apparently there are a few more liquors on the list that we are allowed to pick from. my manager/trainer seemed to think that Bulliet was one of the liquors we are allowed; I'm a bit skeptical if that's actually the case but I am certainly not gonna argue! looking forward to trying all our bourbon (we don't have much but we have the basics and one or two reallyyyy expensive ones) and getting my old fashioned on this summer. (again, I am deliriously pretentious for a heroin addict)

#journal #my journal #bartender #restaurant workers #mixology #orange crush #grapefruit crush #old fashioned #bourbon #vodka #vodka cocktail #whiskey cocktail

[beingofmanynames]

one of the regular doordash drivers wears crude shirts sometimes. today it's "because fuck you that's why" and i fully snorted

#restaurant workers

[incognitopolls]

This is specifically about things that affect your ability to clean the table afterward, not about if they were rude customers/didn't tip/etc.

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#polls #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #tumblr users #questions #polls about jobs #submitted nov 22 #jobs #restaurant worker #cleaning #restaurants #employees #food service

[lazycranberrydoodles]

modern AU where they meet again at the fast food place Xie Lian works at and Hua Cheng has to figure out how to romance a customer service employee

#tbh this is kind of a similar situation to the original - where xie lian is kind of obligated to take care of him as a young runaway #except here he is obligated to hand him a big mac #if you allow me to be a bit more deranged with the au: #xie lians manager (jun wu) (most powerful franchise owner) tries to tell him off for holding up the line talking to the hot goth guy #but turns out hua cheng is a renowned restaurant critic and has gotten 33 businesses closed #so he can’t say shit #hua cheng is picking up food for he xuan. btw. #ive been having immense brainrot about them lately but #less so about angst/plot/romance #more so about #putting them in mundane silly scenarios. #this is also very indulgent. its like therapy for me (<- retail worker) #put hyour ideas for the mcdonalds tgcf au in the tags <3 #has anybody written a fic about this btw id like to read it #tgcf #hualian #art #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #xie lian #hua cheng #mxtx #digital art #my art #comic #lmao #hob #tgcf mcdonalds au

[handweavers]

will never forget when i was in iceland and found the only pakistani restaurant in reykjavik and i walked in and the owner looked directly at me and asked me if i'm punjabi (in punjabi) and i said "yes" and he said "me too. don't worry brother i'll make it right for you" and i ordered a thali and literally watched him turn around toward the stove, take a heaping tablespoon of chili powder and drop it in a pot of curry for me. and he was right, it was the perfect amount of chili

#its been over a year and i still think about him and smile #i was the only non blonde person in that restaurant other than the workers lmao #i can picture him holding the heaping tbsp of chili powder so clearly in my head

[reasonsforhope]

Across New York City, delivery drivers are a ubiquitous sight: congregating outside big restaurant chains waiting to collect orders, zooming through the city streets with orders in tow. “The most chaotic time for deliveries is easily during lunch time,” says Elijah Williams, who delivers food for both Uber and DoorDash. “I’ve had up to four orders at one time.” 

Mayor Eric Adams recently announced a major change that will deeply impact busy workers like Williams: app-based delivery workers will be paid $17.96 an hour starting July 12th — and nearly $20 an hour by 2025 — marking the nation’s first minimum pay for such workers.

“Our delivery workers have consistently delivered for us — now, we are delivering for them,” he said. “They should not be delivering food to your household, if they can’t put food on the plate in their household.”

The Background

Mayor Adams made the announcement at City Hall, surrounded by delivery workers as well as members of the nonprofit organizations, Workers Justice Project (WJP) and Los Deliveristas Unidos.

Ligia Guallpa, executive director of WJP, expressed her excitement and gratitude.

“This first of its kind minimum pay rate will uplift working and immigrant families,” said [Ligia Guallpa of Workers Justice Project (WJP)] alongside Gustavo Ajche of Los Deliveristas Unidos. “[It will] ensure that workers who keep New Yorkers fed, are able to keep also their families fed too.”

WJP was founded in 2010, and coordinates numerous worker-led programs, including Los Deliveristas Unidos, that aim to improve conditions for low-wage immigrant workers across the five boroughs.

The Details

The current minimum wage in New York is $15 an hour. On average, service workers are paid $7.09 an hour, excluding tips. The new wage is in keeping with a law passed by the City Council in 2021, which requires the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection to set a standard minimum rate for delivery workers.

App-based delivery workers are classified as “independent contractors,” which means they’re not entitled to the standard minimum wage that applies to salaried employees’ pay. Instead, delivery workers who work for the big food delivery services, like Uber Eats and Relay, are entitled to just $2.13 an hour before tips — a so-called “tipped sub-minimum wage.”

Research has shown that getting rid of tipped sub-minimum wages benefits not just the workers getting the raise, but the economy as a whole. A 2021 analysis found that states without a tipped sub-minimum wage saw 29 percent growth in their leisure and hospitality sectors, compared to just six percent in states that used the federal tipped sub-minimum wage of $2.13.

...For many of the workers who face hostile roads and unpredictable weather conditions to get New Yorkers their ordered goods, this is a life-changing development.

“This is my full-time job. I get up every day and do this,” says delivery driver Justin Martinez outside the Chick-Fil-A in Washington Heights. 

Martinez, 30, is originally from the Dominican Republic. His commitment to completing deliveries, he explains, is fueled by his love for his family.

“This is my way to contribute. I go out, 9, 10 hours a day, do deliveries, and then I can come home,” he says. Martinez first started driving for Uber in 2019 before transitioning to delivering food for Uber Eats and other apps in 2021. He’s excited for the pay wage increase: “Maybe now, I only [have to] go out for 6 hours.”

-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, June 30, 2023

#new york #new york city #nyc #uber #ubereats #delivery app #delivery driver #restaurants #minimum wage #labor #labor rights #united states #eric adams #gig workers #gig economy #income inequality #good news #hope

[trifoliate-undergrowth]

Walked into a Chinese restaurant and realized they do a lot of traditional food, yay this is good I like this. Ok. I can't decide what to order. Waitress appears and asks, and I snap decide on one of the things I was looking at, salted fish hotpot. She gives me a Look and explains that it has salted fish in it (I did read that yes.) I say yeah ok I'll try it. She leaves. There is discussion. I hear "Stinky fish." The manager comes over and tells me I am ordering STINKY FISH am I SURE I want it. At this point I just have to double down bc I'm curious and not a coward I say yes please give me the stinky fish. I uh hope this goes well. I have had and enjoyed a variety of preserved fish but probably not this kind and definitely not this dish. But now I just gotta know yeah??

#reminds me of the first time my dad ordered tripe at the traditional Chinese restaurant back home #they were like 'no. you don't want that. you won't like that' and he had to explain that he has eaten and enjoyed tripe many times #alas these workers have experienced The Public #I guess they need to be like HEY DID YOU READ THE DESCRIPTION ARE YOU SURE. #anyways #uh let's see how I do #personal

[liverbiver9]

i find it funny but also kind of annoying when writers clearly don’t know how cooking works or haven’t bothered to look up the recipe of whatever food they’re referencing. so many times i’ve read a fic where jiang yanli makes a “vegetarian version” of the lotus and pork rib soup for lan wangji or makes the soup within a few hours (sometimes even only an hour!) which are all pretty much impossible feats.

the soup is made by boiling the pork ribs for LITERAL HOURS (i’m not joking. the soup is best when it’s been simmering for 12 hours at least) alongside the lotus root, aromatics, goji berries, ginger, etc. the reason the soup has any flavor at all is the pork ribs; without those, it would just be water with stuff floating in it. now, if the vegetarian version is just the soup without the pork then that’s one thing, but then does that count as vegetarian since the broth is meat based? i’m not sure what constitutes as vegetarian for the Lans; do bone broths count as eating meat? if they do, no wonder all the food in Cloud Recesses sucks so hard.

anyways, fic writers: before making offhand comments about food, look up the recipe and see how it’s made. food is deeply cultural and significant, both the product and the act of making it. jiang yanli’s soup is so important because it is a labor of love that takes time and effort to make, especially if she is making it from scratch by herself as we are led to assume. by reducing it to something that can be accommodated for other characters or something easier than it really is, you are inadvertently diminishing yanli’s act of love.

#mdzs #rants #mdzs meta #kind of? #jiang yanli #lotus root and pork rib soup #the untamed #modao zushi #i’ve tried to make this soup before and it sucked bc i couldn’t find fresh ingredients but i Will try again #it’s been my favorite from a local restaurant for years now and so i recognized it when i started this fandom #it’s such a hearty warm soup and i like it when i’m recovering from being sick #not while actively sick bc meat upsets my poor sensitive stomach #but after i’m staring to feel better? #miracle worker #yunmeng trio #wei wuxian #lan wangji #my mdzs meta

[sweaters-and-vertigo]

one time i was really stressed out and overwhelmed (customer service job) so i went to my parents house and looked for my mom, so she could give me a hug. i started freaking out because i couldn’t find her so i called her and screamed “I NEED A HUG!!!” into the phone

she told me she was at her friends house and said i could come hang out with everyone. since there would be lots of food and alcohol there, i decided to go. but i ended up walking into the wrong house. it was full of people i didn’t know and they all started staring at me when i walked in. at this point, my panic attack was over and i was just totally zombiefied. i said “where is sarah wilson’s house” and they all pointed across the street. then i grabbed a can of beer, flashed a peace sign, and walked out.

#it was a brunch shift. bottomless mimosas. during covid. #panic attacks aren’t really ‘funny’ but this IS a funny story #but ​the psychological effects of a customer service are no joke #i’ve always hated that horse piss beer but i needed alcohol really badly #restaurants during covid were like the 9th circle of hell #so overstimulated #panic attacks #customer service employees #restaurant workers

[angeletombee]

The Chef de Cuisine at one of our restaurants aced his Sarcasm 101 exam today.

#restaurant workers #hospitality #food industry #restaurant reality #Michelin life #summer sucks #fuck summer #sarcastique #chef de sarcasm