On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:35:41 -0800, sf > wrote:

>On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:57:55 -0700, Janet Bostwick
> wrote:
>
>> The people who do
>> them should be respected for the service they provide.
>
>ABSOLUTELY... and not underpaid. I doubt a single person here has
>ever turned down a raise and yet they think it's okay for servers
>national minimum wage not to have risen in the last 20 years.
>
>> I'd better stop, I feel a sermon coming on ;o)

Every server I've ever asked would rather work for just tips and no
wage than for a salary not much more than minimum wage. In the late
'60s the bottom fell out of the CA economy, no jobs to be had... I
took a job driving a Yellow Cab... hated the job but back then I made
over $20/hr in tips. Four short distance fares an hour was common and
no one tipped less than $5... a fare from downtown LA to the airport
brought a $25 tip, and within ten minutes I'd get a return fare to
somewhere in LA, same kind of tip. The wage from Yellow Cab was non
existant, less than $2/hr... if someone were willing to hustle they
could make very good money driving a Yellow Cab. Each cab was fitted
with a two way radio with four channels, changed channels with cab
zone location... most all fares were via radio, they preferred drivers
not pick fares up off the street. Even as a child I delivered
newspapers and groceries by bicycle, no one would do those jobs if not
for tipping.