Log in Subscribe

Minimum wage push for tipped restaurant employees

Lawmakers reintroduce 'One Fair Wage' legislation

BY CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 2/3/23

Jennyfer Almanzar, a 26-year-old bartender, makes about $45 a shift tending bar part-time in Harlem. Like most food and drink service workers, she relies on tips to make ends meet. Tips, though, have gone down since the pandemic, she said.

“It’s terrible. I’ve come out of a shift with $20 in tips,” she said during a recent phone interview.

This item is available in full to subscribers.

Please log in to continue

Log in