Waffle Now Restaurant Benefits

Working for a low profit margin restaurant can be difficult. At times, it can seem like your hard work isn't being fully paid off to your satisfaction. Some restaurants allow employees to recieve tips whether it's added to your pay check, or through the hands of the customers. On the other hand, there are restaurants that don't allow employee tips. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, servers at the Waffle Now restaurant are petitioning to have their pay raised to the federal minnimum nontipped wage, while still keeping any tips offered. This can have many negative effects on a business and can create overwheling changes.

As a restaurant manager, changing your employees wages requires a lot of budget issues. Prices for the customers visiting the store

would have to change drastically to make ends meet with the employee wages." Ther federal non-tipped minimum wage is more than three times higher than the tipped minimum wage. If Waffle Now were required to pay servers the higher wage, I might need to raise the prices off of our menu items to cover the wage increase," said the restaurant manager at the Waffle Now. This shows how much more money the business will have to put into the workers wages just to keep them happy, which in the end will make it much harder to maintain.

Now although you can try limting the number of workers, or cutting the employee hours, they are still losing too much for their workers pay. Even making these changes you are in great danger of losing the restaurant. Waffle Now is not a high profit business, and would not be able to afford switching its employees to the minimum non-tipped wages. A managers job is to make the employees happier than your customers, but sometimes, you have to make the business decision. " I think it's best to continue paying our servers the tipped minimum wage. Not only is this necessary for the restaurant's budget, but it is also in our employees' best interest."