Outdoor dining means more customers, more tables, longer shifts, the same subminimum wage. Tipped restaurant workers are the only workers left in New York State who are still paid the subminimum wage.
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Subminimum wages reinforce the notion that food service is not serious labor and that payment for that work should be conditional.
One Fair Wage is fighting for tipped restaurant workers; it is fighting for Uber and Lyft drivers, car wash workers, nail salon techs, youth, the incarcerated, workers with disabilities.
A recent survey of restaurant workers confirms what insiders know: that the industry has the highest rate of sexual harassment, and a reliance on tips exacerbates the problem. Eliminating the tipped wage would go a long way to fixing the problem.
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