Waffle House is increasing base pay in the U.S., starting at $3 per hour

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

After five years of planning, Waffle House says it is raising the base salary of its workers—to $3 per hour.

The company will set the new floor for base pay this month, gradually increasing it to a minimum of $5.25 per hour by June 2026, CEO Joe Rogers III announced in a video to employees.

The video was released in May but has come to light only recently. Rogers called the move “the single largest additional investment in our workforce in the entire 68-year history of Waffle House.”

The federal minimum wage in 2025 is set to hit $15 per hour. Tipped employees, though, are often not covered by that figure.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/waffle-house-increasing-pay-u-154925379.html

Well isn't that just fucking generous of them.

[Beaverhausen]

1. What is it now?

The article doesn’t mention what the pay is now.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. I think it's two bucks an hour.

I must have read that in some other article.

[Moosepoop]

5. The article does address states with their own minimum tipped wage laws...

saying that there will be no immediate changes in those states. So it stands to reason that this new increase is in all the other states, where the federal minimum tipped wage is currently $2.13.

[Bev54]

2. Tell me why they are not getting the minimum wage at the very least? I find it incredible

that the US still allows these slave wages and allows companies to make the public pay the wages of their workers. It disgusts me.

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. I don't see how they get away with that.

I always thought the assumption was that tips would make up the difference to the Fed/State minimum wage. Not that it's enough.

But I can't imagine Waffle House is a "big-tipper" type of place. So the total is likely still below minimum wage

[Bev54]

6. It shouldn't matter if they are big tippers or not. They should get their wages and tips if people

feel the service is worth it. It puts pressure on the patrons to tip. In Canada all workers are entitled to minimum wage, including the service industry and they get their tips as well. Good service workers will not only get higher wages but higher tips as well. I have never understood the US position on this at all.

[mopinko]

13. it was bad enough when it was fixed at half of min wage.

but even that was too much. they just carved out a shitty ‘wage’ and kept it there.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. I actually love Waffle House,

and have many fond memories of them. Alas, where I currently live (Santa Fe, NM), there's not one very near me.

[Lunabell]

8. Now can they increase the quality of their food?

We went to one just recently and it was horrible. The t-bone was so full of gristle and over cooked that it was inedible. The eggs, ordered over easy, had runny whites. And the hash browns were almost raw. We'll never go there again. It was my first Waffle House order and my last. But, at least the grits were good.

[BigmanPigman]

9. Boo fucking hoo, Waffle House.

How much are your CEOs making? Do they live on $3 or less an hour? Hell no! They wouldn't work for $300 an hour. GOP "math" is unbelievable. I have never eaten at a Waffle House and knowing this I never will. I'm angry that in CA $15 an hour for fast food is supposedly causing fast food giants to cry big tears and tell the media that these huge hourly increases are forcing them to leave the state. Good riddance! GO AWAY FOREVER! When the average new home costs are over $1,200,000 this is so frustrating. I hope they all go bankrupt. Greedy CEOs are killing the US. I boycott and I always will. Fuck this BS!

[canetoad]

10. Righteous rant BP

Are Americans so infatuated with cheap (in all ways) nourishment, that does little to nourish their bodies that they will happily see their compatriots paid an

ABSOLUTE FUCKING PITTANCE

to service their needs? This points to a very sick society..

PAY YOUR FUCKING WORKERS, Waffle House.

[BigmanPigman]

12. Haven't you heard that all of the price increases

are due to Covid? How long are they planning to use that BS excuse for their unbridled greed? They always have a new con/lie ready to dump onto American consumers at a moment's notice. Greedy bastards can never have too much money.

[OldBaldy1701E]

14. Well, we let them do it.

Because we never actually do anything about it. Oh, a few people will protest, a few will boycott, but those numbers will not matter to a national corporation. (BTW, I want to find out how many of their elite actually eat at their own restaurants.)

[Straw Man]

11. My base wage in a tip-based bellhop job was $2/hour.

That was in 1974.

[pecosbob]

15. Boycott...