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Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received... by paxy on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @06:57PM (#19031177)
Isn't this exactly what restaurants all over the country do? Tips count as wages, and then the employer pays on top of that to make up the difference.
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Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received... by mattbreeden on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @09:35PM (#19032113)
My understanding is that wages from the restaurant are fixed and tips do not count towards them unless the employee does not hit minimum wage- at which point the restaurant has to pay them more. I have never heard of a restaurant paying an employee less because they got more tips.

But I have never worked in a restaurant so I could be completely wrong.

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Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received... by lancesells on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @08:48PM (#19031839)
How many restaurants have $1.9B in funding and are valued at ~$8B? There's also an obfuscation on payment to workers that doesn't happen in a restaurant.
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