but in practice i'm guessing they only get that when the entire shift is non-tipped work.

plus nights when i made $5, because i had an empty section. that happened pretty routinely, and it would have been easy to make a slight adjustment for shifts in that section. instead, they just rotated the servers. pacified them.

my daughter drove a hansom cab. same shit. 2 hours in the barn, heavy work, zip.
with a little tax fraud on the side. independent contractor scam.

which was back in the day, was just a mob sinkhole. they fought for your right to make something like a dollar over minimum wage.

bars, i have seen. bartenders usually make more here, even tho they are tipped. the rational being that they are pouring for someone who is getting tips, when they could be getting people drunk and chatting them up.
and bars have the additional issue of moral hazard. lots of cash changing hands. lots of ways to pretend it's your money. lots of ways to short the till. or drain the inventory.

paid above the minimum wage of 9.10 an hour as well. No such thing as a 'tipped wage' here.

restaurants feel like it's not their job to pay the servers. if they made as much as the dishwasher, they would be actually paying them.
which might actually lead to the idea of paying them MORE.

Good for Oregon.

-Laelth