Tipping Speech
No matter how different people may be there is one thing everyone in this room, and everyone and the world has in common. Food. We all eat it, we all love it and I don’t know about you guys but mealtime is easily one of my favorite parts of the day. But how often do we think about the people who serve us our food? Servers in Texas are only paid $2.13 an hour before tips and according to the Wall Street Journal and even with tips many servers end up making below minimum wage. I’m credible on this topic because I’ve worked in several restaurants and I’ve seen how many people almost completely rely on tips as their source of income. Tipping is relevant to you guys because everyone here has eaten in a restaurant and because most likely some of you guys have also had the pleasure of working in a restaurant. There are two solutions I propose to this problem, one everyone could make an effort to give their servers a good tip of around 20% if they receive good service, and also Texas could increase the amount that waiters and waitresses get paid per hour.
We’re all in college so that we can have careers and not have to rely on things like tips, but I think its important to remember that not everyone gets the same oppotunity, According to The Wall Street Journal almost one in ten workers works in the service industry so thats about 30 million people which is a huge chunk of the population. And if a portion that large of the population is being underpaid it can effect the economy in a multitude of ways. Its easy to think that waiters might make an abundance of cash when you think about how much waiters in for example a steakhouse might make but according to the National REstaurant nationally the median income for servers is 8.94 including tips which, when compared to the median for all other workers being 15.84, thats quite a lot lower. Although there are many fields actually 30% about where workers receive tips, such as massage therapists or golf caddies the food
We’re all in college so that we can have careers and not have to rely on things like tips, but I think its important to remember that not everyone gets the same oppotunity, According to The Wall Street Journal almost one in ten workers works in the service industry so thats about 30 million people which is a huge chunk of the population. And if a portion that large of the population is being underpaid it can effect the economy in a multitude of ways. Its easy to think that waiters might make an abundance of cash when you think about how much waiters in for example a steakhouse might make but according to the National REstaurant nationally the median income for servers is 8.94 including tips which, when compared to the median for all other workers being 15.84, thats quite a lot lower. Although there are many fields actually 30% about where workers receive tips, such as massage therapists or golf caddies the food