THE TIPPING POINT
Restaurants in 18 states pay their servers a paltry $2.13 an hour. Bon appétit!
by MADDIE OATMAN
Apr 24, 2016
3 minutes
FRESH OUT of college and working as an unpaid intern for a San Francisco nonprofit, I paid the bills by moonlighting at an Indian restaurant in the Pacific Heights neighborhood. My hostess job entailed long stretches of boredom punctuated by a cacophonous frenzy. There were icy glares from impatient diners and reprimands from managers for drifting from my podium, but compared with most restaurant workers, I was sitting pretty: My hourly rate exceeded California’s minimum wage, I was tipped out by the servers at the end of each shift,
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