one thing about size of meals...
when i was in the us , we went for mexican food , in the us everything is so huge, i mean the enchilada was 3x the size of a asian one, and double the size of an european one..
so maybe you start serving less food , paying your waiters more money so they are not paid less than a Chinese Worker !
Yes, our restaurant portion sizes are generally too large. I see it as
an effort to retail more product to an unsuspecting audience which
has subsequently grown to expect the excess (hence the readily
availability of take-out containers in pretty much all restaurants).
i am still shocked about th 2.13 usd .. is this true . can anybody confirm this?
if this is true i will tip change my tipping habits in the us. i thought that 10% if service is ok, 15% if service is good and 20% if service is exceptional is fine but if this is true i will tip more the next time i am in the us.
It is a reflection of the antediluvian nature of some of our nation's attitudes
that my citation below is from the Women's Bureau of our government labor
department (and it may say something that there is such a bureau at all).
From U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau
Question: Is it legal for waiters and waitresses to be paid below the minimum wage?
Answer: An employer may credit a portion of a tipped employee's tips against the federal minimum wage of $5.85 per hour effective July 24, 2007. An employer must pay at least $2.13 per hour. However, if an employee's tips combined with the employer's wage of $2.13 per hour do not equal the hourly minimum wage, the employer is required to make up the difference.
The issue here is that employers can simply lie about their staff's tips.
And the system encourages the employees to lie about their tips as well.
Though the rationale of the system is to encourage better service by
encouraging tipping, there are some effects that were not intended
by whoever formulated the system.