According to Monyhan if
you buy a room overnight, and it includes breakfast, the tip included with your
breakfast "is two dollars, the breakfast ticket is twenty five." This is around
a 10% tip. The customary tip for a sit down restaurant is 15%, 20% if you are
at a luxury place or in groups of eight or more. Waitresses rely on tips, and
they are losing quite a bit of their livelihood due to this."
What other shenanigans are
going on? Well, she works the evening shift, and this is a restaurant with
twenty tables. She is expected to serve all twenty, never mind that she has no
hostess, no busboy and no drinks person. "When I started thirty years ago, I
had a hostess, a busboy and a drinks person."
This essentially means
that "I have to clear the tables, set up the tables, take the orders and be the
hostess."
Moreover, in case you
wonder, a waitress is expected to manage five to seven tables, not twenty.
For some odd reason, I
really do not know why" the restaurant seems not to be too busy. There is more.
Wait staff is supposed to work regardless of health status. The Staff has
pointed this to management, but management has this attitude that really, we
don't need to hire more people, since we do not have enough clients. It is a vicious
circle.
Monyhan also said "that it
does not matter if the hotel is 100% booked or not, they only have two cooks in
the kitchen, regardless. They're expected to put the food out just as fast.
This puts a lot of pressure on them."
So you think these games
are just at the level of the restaurant? Banquet services are not that much
better, from the point of view of the workers. The wait staff is paid $8.00 \
hour, California minimum wage, and since the tips are included, they are given
a $5.00 flat tip.
There is an effort to
bring a Union as well, since House Keeping is again required to clean sixteen
rooms in eight hours. "And the rooms are left like pigsties many a times since
many of the clients are teens."
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