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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Points I've not heard mentioned:

There are other negative outcomes that result from employers not paying an actual wage besides income loss. When an employer pays you chump change and knows your are at the mercy of the guests paying your salary, they also don't respect your time very much.

Maybe some restaurants will consider relocating to areas with barely any sit down restaurants, like Wards 7 and 8, in order to make ends meet. Maybe diners will consider actually (gulp) travelling to  wards 7 and 8 for meal prices that are more reasonable than downtown.

And maybe these "uneducated people with such a great entry into making a living" can actually do so because they won't have to go through 2-3 weeks of crap tips and crap wages because their manager is starting them at the bottom of the totem pole after training (with bad sections and bad guests.) If it's so easy for someone with no skills to enter this profitable job, why do 80% of my co-workers (server/bartenders) have BA.s?
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You are right in sense that they could respect your time more, but it's really not the issue here. Actually, it's usually the customer who sits there extra hour. They might sit there even longer now that they pay a lot for their meal. See, I can twist and turn it the way I see it. 
 We cannot find workers at $20-$40 an hour and it's a good place to work. Respect my time? I'm taking my 2nd 2-3 month vacation this year. Let's talk about flexibility. They also let many of us come in several hours later. "Just come for the rush". You don't see what they do for us. They work with our start time, and yes, ofcourse we still complain if they keep us there 10 minutes longer since the customer still sits there.
You can travel to Anacostia for a meal. I don't want to travel for food. Beautiful neighborhood with a great view though.
My coworkers don't have BAs. Most are in school, some have high school and some have nothing. I'm not sure where you eat/work, but since most restaurants are hiring, there's space for BAs, GEDs and MAs holder.
I've been in business for 20 years and I still ask a new place to start me out slowly. God forbid I don't make what others make the first month. I'd rather not mess and up upset my customers and myself than have an extra $50. All new people still make DC minimum wage that you call crap wage while training.
I'm not the one who is going to suffer. The guy who filled out an application and asked me (English is clearly not my first language) how to spell a "bouncer" is going to suffer. He is not going to get a chance now. 
So, do you agree that there might be less work after 77 takes affect? Nowhere do you say that there is going to be more work. If less as I suspect,  the GED holder is the loser here, not the BA holder.[/quote]

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