IME, servers generally feel pretty firmly entitled to those high wages collectively at the end of the day, they live pretty well outside of work compared to BOH and it's typically less serious work for them as it's more likely to be a "stop" rather than a career (which is more likely for a kitchen worker).
Nothing stops them from having a personal policy to split tips out the kitchen 20-50% and/or organizing other servers and petitioning management for a formal process. I've seen some that do, but very rare.
It's a hierarchy like anything else - the owners are doing wage theft at scale and collecting way more profit than they should, the servers are collecting tips as the final mile face representing a lot of people in back literally navigating knives, fire and very heavy lifting. On balance, they get more than they should (when I was in kitchens, the servers routinely cleared 3 - 4x more annually than the cooks - talking mid 30s for kitchen versus over 100k for servers all told). And the cooks are just working, sacrificing their bodies and personal relationships until their knees give out at 35 and the weaker ones are addicts to cope with it all.
We just live in a culture in the US where the predominant voices you hear are the public (customers) and servers themselves. The servers have selfish motivations and the public have an inherent guilt for making others "serve" them and for being half educated on the server's "perilous plight". And again, cooks are quieter in the mix by nature and busy working, so you don't really hear their voice.
So yes , the system is fucked, needs major reform, owner class is the driver, but the servers are in the passenger seat silently enjoying the ride. The cooks are in the trunk, with a speaker playing an audiobook about how difficult things are for the servers.
That's not the point. Point is two fold; first, we shouldn't normalize closing the wage gap that shitty business owners choose to create, their vacation home is built from wage theft. Second, the other laborers in the first photo also get paid shit wages relatively, especially the chefs who do infinitely harder work and don't get a split of those tips in most situations. And to be frank, wait staff is often traditionally filled with more attractive people than the bridge trolls in back of house, and that's a big part of why they clear so much in tips. I've known many servers who clear more than double the average cooks pay at the end of the year. That's not equitable.
So the tension is well founded and much more nuanced than you know or want to acknowledge.
My understanding is that, less than the sugar itself, a big issue with early exposure for children is more the presentation and marketing - sugary food is rarely beige.
The colorful presentations, often with cartoons and rainbows, tends to attract kids, pump dopamine and breed addiction until you need all the junky foods to compulsively feed the monkey. Bad early habits turning into lifelong health issues.
You're arguing a pont without purpose, it's both. They always have a hopper, packed full of bullshit, and constantly ready to deploy. It's definitely intentional timing, go read up on his relationship with roy cohn and bannon still advising from sidelines. This is how they operate
This is next distraction away from his complete failure in Iran and his green, moldy swimming pool. He's giving $300 billion to Iran in his total surrender, what's the total amount of assistance to be withheld in funding here?
Also Tim cook quote, "you're so great Mr. Trump, we had an army man, nake you a special trophy just for you. The base is literally a gold bar that I'm illegally giving you. Isn't that fun, you're so great trump. Thank you trump. I love you trump. It's such a joy to socialize with you trump"
So I actually work as a lawyer for one of the production companies putting this together. I was just in a meeting discussing licensing needs and we were given a walkthrough of the outline for the screenplay. This is just posted on Lemmy, so nobody will see it. Be cool and don't repeat. Here is what I remember...
100% going to be a rich person with a scottie dog wearing a top hat as the villain (big chance Kevin oleary, as Hollywood likely wants to launder that evil ghoul now that they have precedence) owning all the property in the city as a slumlord and living in a big hotel on park place that he owns. He has a yacht that looks like a battleship (game-piece) and in front of his house, a statue of himself on a horse (game piece) that's also the hood ornament design on his fancy old sports car (game piece). His butler irons his tie with a little golden iron (game piece) in opening scene. He basically "holds all the pieces".
Hero, named Chance (like the game card), is going to be a kid born on the wrong side of the (Redding Railroad) tracks, who is buying small run down properties and improving them with inheritance found in dead grandpa's old boot (game piece). Signature trait is that he always carries his lucky dice around (game piece).
As hero rises up, the temporary set back to overcome will be that they "go to jail" for something, but only temporarily.
Comic relief will be that the villain, who hates the rising hero, fumes one day as they open the paper and see that the hero ALSO won a beauty contest?!?!?
Climax is that villain buys Atlantic ave building where hero's sick grandma lives and raises rent to $10k a month on an apartment she lived in for 60 years with grandpa who has died. Grandma sews gifts for hero (thimble, game piece). She's going to be homeless. Grandma's name is Elizabeth Magie (a reference to the actual original creator of the game when it was actually "woke" to the max and called "The Landlord's Game").
Everyone in town pitches in at a big block party to form a community chest (game card) to pay Grandmas rent. It's summer and kids are playing in the fire hydrants in the street. Villain owns the utilities and shuts down the water as a fuck you. But a firefighter who we see briefly as Chance's childhood friend from "the neighborhood" shows up and uses reserve tank on firetruck to spray in the air for the kids.
Knowing that will only cover temp rent, and villain will just raise rent further (will be some lazy vague reference to a trump figure allowing that corruption). So hero will take community chest money and sell all his properties to villain in a deal that feels like defeat. Villain gives deed to grandma as part of deal. She warns him to "be careful paying that Landlord's Game" (she said the thing! She admit it! #hashtag)
As villain now gets ready to evict all the families and bulldoze all the cheap properties to build mixed use buildings that are purchased by foreign investors and sit empty with crumbl cookies on ground floor, hero uses villain sale money to purchase a single building, the building villain lives in. Hero has the doorman (fast talking new york type kid, named "Go") keep villain out of building. Villain owns a media company and has "news" film him dumping a golden wheelbarrow (game-piece) of money into a glass box in front of the building, he then issues a call to the city, "This is my corrupt doorman, Go. Go wants to stop me from improving this city and has locked me out of my building. So, whoever can help me PASS GO, will COLLECT $200 (million) DOLLARS!"
then big fight chaos scene, Go knows karate or something, kill bill music plays, the scottie dog somehow ends up stealing the money in the chaos and finds another dog (comically different dog, lassie or something) to run away with. Also, in middle of everything, someone fires a giant antique cannon (game piece).
Hero finds all the evidence of villain crimes in the building (the golden iron from opening scene was key to a vault door) and villain then goes to jail, for real this time. Villain's property gets seized and new mayor (a mamdani analog) sells all back to hero at auction for a single, symbolic dollar. Hero then gives ownership back to all the families and ends as the "good billionaire" who owns fancy park place hotel but let's poor people swim in the pool!!!
And they probably have mark Cuban or an appearance helping the hero somewhere, because "good billionaires" are all around us!!! And because shark tank reference, do you get it???!!!!????!!!! Probably a "just visiting" stop at jail with hero to see the villain. And they leave together driving villains antique sportscar.
post credits scene: You see the dogs again relaxing on a tropical beach with butlers bringing steaks. Camera pulls back from beach in a crane shot and you see that the beach town is a realistic version of the Game of Life board.
Black screen
Bookmark it. You'll see... Or maybe it will just star a new emoji called the Fart Emoji doing the 6 7 hands for two hours.
Bold of you to try to make a distinction between this admin and corporations. But of course, they'll hedge. My point is that they do so uphill and slowly, without the research, subsidy/tax incentives and media praise that would typically accelerate progress towards such an obvious next step
Hope your death is only as painful as you deserve, Mitch - You were a vicious cancer on the world that we nay never recover from, and all because you got caught having sex with a guy in the military.
Before "the election"... what are you taking about, guy? Fetterman has held several local and state offices before the stroke. Those were years of saying shit and delivering tangible outcomes, that's how he advanced to national prominence, not because he wore shorts.
But again, that fetterman was real, and died from a stroke.
It is a lot of revisionist history. If you actually tuned in early on and listened in any depth, it was real.
I can't find it now, but there was one earlier interview in particular on CNN/MSNBC, maybe when he was running for lieutenant governor? It was in front of a Sheetz or a Wawa and he genuinely felt like he could be a viable presidential candidate one day. Clear, confident and progressive positions expressed very matter of fact.
The person you see today is not the same person. Again, john fetterman died.
IME, servers generally feel pretty firmly entitled to those high wages collectively at the end of the day, they live pretty well outside of work compared to BOH and it's typically less serious work for them as it's more likely to be a "stop" rather than a career (which is more likely for a kitchen worker).
Nothing stops them from having a personal policy to split tips out the kitchen 20-50% and/or organizing other servers and petitioning management for a formal process. I've seen some that do, but very rare.
It's a hierarchy like anything else - the owners are doing wage theft at scale and collecting way more profit than they should, the servers are collecting tips as the final mile face representing a lot of people in back literally navigating knives, fire and very heavy lifting. On balance, they get more than they should (when I was in kitchens, the servers routinely cleared 3 - 4x more annually than the cooks - talking mid 30s for kitchen versus over 100k for servers all told). And the cooks are just working, sacrificing their bodies and personal relationships until their knees give out at 35 and the weaker ones are addicts to cope with it all.
We just live in a culture in the US where the predominant voices you hear are the public (customers) and servers themselves. The servers have selfish motivations and the public have an inherent guilt for making others "serve" them and for being half educated on the server's "perilous plight". And again, cooks are quieter in the mix by nature and busy working, so you don't really hear their voice.
So yes , the system is fucked, needs major reform, owner class is the driver, but the servers are in the passenger seat silently enjoying the ride. The cooks are in the trunk, with a speaker playing an audiobook about how difficult things are for the servers.