My only experience in the food industry was as a delivery driver (all of us were males). However, the rest of the message concerning the ridiculous wages is accurate.

The only servers that did well worked either at high-end steakhouses or at the new CPK in Austin. The rest of them averaged about $50-$60 per shift.

The men who protect us are more likely to be shot than the public.

Police officers are shot at 3 times the rate of the closest profession.

What's your point?

both a male and a female?

So if the minimum wage is increased, more women than men will feel it, at first. But supposedly raising the minimum wage also raises the wages of other low income (but still above the min wage, think $12-$16) workers, so in the end a lot of people at the bottom are lifted up. Or at least that's how it's been explained to me. Anyone who knows what they're talking about care to elaborate?

...and I don't mean to be patting myself on the back, but I know at cheap restaurants waitresses don't get much in tips and they haven't had a minimum wage raise in a long time. My wife too, because she is so awesome, will sometimes leave a $20 tip for $14 meal.