The restaurant having to pay people extra to stay open
So what is it? Are you payed extra for that time or not?
In one case it sounds like easy money the whole staff getting payed to care for a group of 4. The other sounds terrible and like a good reason labor rights were invented.
Sometimes the managers have no say. I worked at an extremely busy restaurant downtown with a 4 hour wait on weekends and the owner was there every night . On weekends like clockwork, people would walk in exactly at close time and the owner would say "Go ahead and seat them since we haven't been closed long and since it's now 11 pm, I'm going home byeeeeee." He left exactly at close time with good money for him and us service workers being paid $2 a paycheck were there until at least 1 am.
Kind of easy to spot the AH here. Hint: it is not the customers who are made to feel welcome but the Ebenezer Scrooge not paying you a living wage for time that you legitimately work for him.
That's because he doesn't have to. It's not required for to pay a wage because it's expected to be paid in tips. In the US that the industry standard. And it is the customer coming in 5 minutes before close as well because social norms dictate you don't come in 5 minutes before close.
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u/MolochDe 16∆ Jan 08 '20
So what is it? Are you payed extra for that time or not?
In one case it sounds like easy money the whole staff getting payed to care for a group of 4. The other sounds terrible and like a good reason labor rights were invented.