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Originally Posted by InfoGuy
Any bartender depending on minimum wage should not be a bartender.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
You seem to be missing the point here. Bartenders do not always work behind the bar. I worked as a bartender at the Sunshine Saloon in Pleasanton, California, for a few years and not all of my time was spent tending bar. A lot of time was spent taking in shipments and working in the backroom taking stock. Then after the bar closes we have to clean everything up. This is where the problem is - people will be employed as "bartenders" and will in fact serve drinks, but at other times they will not work as bartenders at all.... And employers will be paying their employees less than minimum wage when they aren't getting any tips at all.
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If you were a good bartender, then you would have earned more than enough tips during the hours you spent serving drinks to offset the low salary hours you spent stocking and cleaning the bar. The bartenders who serve me earn hundreds of dollars in tips per shift.
Should strippers earn minimum wage if customers don't want to tip them because they're fat and ugly?
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Originally Posted by newB
I made bank working as a bartender for $2.13/hr, but I worked hard and was good at reading people. I earned a reputation that had customers coming back.
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'Nuff said.