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Originally Posted by Bill32
S.B. 7210 passed the Florida senate and heading to the house.
Tampa based OSI partners ( Carrabas, Bonefish, Outback ) got the Senate to draft a bill to lower the minimum wage for restaurant workers who make tips from $4.65 to $2.13 per hour, They dont any benifits, have to pay for their own health care, many are single parents ..... WHAT!.....IS IT JUST ME!!!!!!!!!!! So OSI Partners gave $130,000. to a few dozen republican senators to sell out some of the lowest paid and hardest working members of our community. Shameful.....................Shameful. If you think its hard to find decent servers now just see what you get if this bill passes!! Next time people feel like beating up on unions remember this is why we have them! These hard working young men and women have no one to represent them, if these establishments could pay them nothing they wood! So now I think as a restaurant goer, OK, I guess we will see our menu prices go down.........YEAH RIGHT.
So now I'll take a few hours tracking down email addresses of the supporting restaurants and names of restaurants who don't support this bill.
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I read this in The Daily Sun and I couldn't believe what I was reading.
All the more reason to tip well. I appreciate the good service found in so many of our restaurants. The service is sometimes better than the food and I am thinking of places like Toojays, Cane Garden, Mallory and Glenview. Thank you servers. That is hard work that is much appreciated.
This legislation needs to be reversed!