Dress Up Like the'80s and Picket Outback Steakhouse

Waiting is a nonskilled job. Change careers if you don't make enough money bringing people food.

Do the research and read the bill....This is optional and up to the company the server works for. You should find out from your current employer if they support this....just because Outback supports it, does not mean "Mom and Pop" or Pizza Hut will....

Take a breath and stop "knee-jerking" to the lib media....Do the research yourself and find out what this is really all about!

A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to tipped employees; authorizing an 3 employer to elect to guarantee that all tipped 4 employees receive a wage, including tips, equal to a 5 minimum percentage of the state minimum wage; 6 requiring that the employer make the election in 7 writing and prominently display it in the employer’s 8 premises; requiring that the election remain in effect 9 for a specified period of time until revoked by the 10 employer; providing that the employer is subject to 11 civil actions and fines if the employer fails to pay a 12 tipped employee the wage guaranteed under the act or 13 engages in any discriminatory or retaliatory action; 14 providing that an employer that pays a tipped employee 15 the wage guaranteed is deemed to have fulfilled the 16 employer’s obligations with respect to payment of the 17 state minimum wage; providing that the act does not 18 affect the employer’s obligation to comply with the 19 federal Fair Labor Standards Act; providing an 20 effective date. 21 22 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 23 24 Section 1. Optional guaranteed wage

Yeah give them a fair wage right after you make sure there all legal!!! I totally agree legal workers should be getting a fair wage!!!

I have never understood the "logic" that allowed restaurant and service workers to be paid less than the minimum wage.  The pat answer  "because they make tips" is less than convincing.

Keep electing right wing pro corporate blowhards who believe workers are only a cost or a burden and not the cause of business demand and eventually we will become a third-world sweatshop. Just like all of the conservatives really want. Do you really believe employers are competing for workers by paying the best competitive wage they can?

I live in NC and work for Pizza Hut. Our wage as servers is $3.20 an hour. MOST of the people we wait on don't tip, Pizza Hut makes us claim enough to add up to minimum wage, weather or not we make enough.tips! The drivers, about a year ago, got their wage, while on the road lowered from $7.25 (NC min. wage) to $4.50 an hour. MOST of those customers don't tip either. So the drivers are stuck with paying for gas, repairs, tires, maintainence, etc. This happened right at the time gas was sky rocketing. We're paying them to work! How is this legal? Big companies relying on customers to pay what they should be paying. I thought paying min. wage was the law?

I work for OSI.. at a carrabba's Italian grill. Not only are the servers paid  4.65 and hour but also the hosts and bussers as well. We (as servers) already supplement the hosts and bussers salaries by tipping out 3% of our TOTAL sales. Regardless of tips received on those sales. Meaning if I am tipped very poorly or not at all, then it costs me money to wait on those tables. Granted, this is not something that happens very often at all. But, is still a fact. My paycheck after taxes and insurance is typically only between 10 and 60 dollars. And I can honestly say.. that little money helps a lot every two weeks!! I've heard a lot of talk that "servers don't pay taxes on $$ earned".. Wrong!! Firstly, any credit card sale and tip is Automatically taxed! Second, when I "clock out" at the end of my shift, My total cash sales are listed, and I must claim at the very least 10% of that to even clock out!! I claim ALL, so that I can prove income for one, and Pay into SS and Medicare fairly. Plus IF I were to ever receive "vacation" pay, it would be based on what I make.. meaning what I claim! Though they make it VERY hard to earn this One week off with pay. Waiting on tables is MUCH more than just bringing people a drink and food!! I challenge Anyone who thinks differently to try to do my job for 1 week!! Even for 1 day!! They say that this new wage would NOT be imposed on those already receiving 4.65/hr... Ok, so... what then? Just cut my hours WAY back so they can hire New employees and pay them less, and hope that I quit?!

Twenty ++years backwards, Not!!!. Lets do that to Politician's wages/salaries,who usually work 6 hour days if and when they work for a max of 9 months out of the year and see what they say: Especially since most of them have voted for legislation that provided automatic pay raises, for Themselves!!.