WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:05.519
<v Speaker 1>It's Night Side with Dan Ray w BZ Costs Radio.

2
00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:09.679
<v Speaker 2>All Right, So, as we rolled towards the election on

3
00:00:09.759 --> 00:00:13.119
<v Speaker 2>November fifth, not only the presidential election, but the state

4
00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:17.359
<v Speaker 2>elections and maybe some local elections, we are going to

5
00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:21.039
<v Speaker 2>periodically be looking at some of the ballot questions. We

6
00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:24.239
<v Speaker 2>looked at one of the ballot questions that deal with

7
00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:29.679
<v Speaker 2>the MCAST requirements, graduation requirement with Matt Hills on Tuesday night,

8
00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:34.359
<v Speaker 2>Tuesday evening during the nine o'clock hour. Matt is the

9
00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:44.600
<v Speaker 2>vice chair of the Massachusetts Secondary and Elementary Education Department. Tonight,

10
00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:48.119
<v Speaker 2>we're going to take a look at another ballot question.

11
00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:51.600
<v Speaker 2>This is ballid question five, and this is one that

12
00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:57.679
<v Speaker 2>is quite confusing, and to clarify some of that confusion,

13
00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:00.479
<v Speaker 2>we have invited Steve Clark, the President and CEO of

14
00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:04.439
<v Speaker 2>the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, to join us. I'll also tell

15
00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:08.000
<v Speaker 2>you that we tried to get a representative of another

16
00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:10.879
<v Speaker 2>group that is on the opposite side of this issue,

17
00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:15.599
<v Speaker 2>which seems to be a California based group. So first

18
00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:18.159
<v Speaker 2>of all, Steve, welcome to you. Thank you for joining

19
00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:21.599
<v Speaker 2>us tonight on Night Side. Thank you. How are you tonight? Dan?

20
00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:23.400
<v Speaker 3>Thank you very much for having me. How are we doing?

21
00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:27.680
<v Speaker 2>We're doing fine. Now can you give me my understanding?

22
00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:31.239
<v Speaker 2>Is that the group that is that is in favor

23
00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:35.480
<v Speaker 2>of this question, and I don't expect you know you

24
00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:39.159
<v Speaker 2>to necessarily to us what they're saying, as you're opposed

25
00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:42.400
<v Speaker 2>to it. Are they a local group or a group

26
00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:44.599
<v Speaker 2>from out of state? And is there we we had

27
00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:48.719
<v Speaker 2>a tough time trying to find anyone to join us,

28
00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:52.120
<v Speaker 2>join you tonight to discuss the topic here in Massachusetts.

29
00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:53.359
<v Speaker 2>What's what's the story there?

30
00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:56.640
<v Speaker 3>So this is an organization that came out of California.

31
00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:01.159
<v Speaker 3>They have filed this question in massachuf this legislative league

32
00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:04.480
<v Speaker 3>for the last five legislative sessions, for the last ten years.

33
00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:08.039
<v Speaker 3>And they've also filed this similar type of legislation in

34
00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:11.879
<v Speaker 3>sixteen states across the country this year, all of which

35
00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:17.120
<v Speaker 3>have not adopted this provision. So after not having legislative success,

36
00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:20.120
<v Speaker 3>they paid about a million dollars to get on the

37
00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:20.919
<v Speaker 3>ballot for this year.

38
00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:23.240
<v Speaker 4>And here we are. We are.

39
00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:26.759
<v Speaker 3>We have balid Question five, which will fundamentally change the

40
00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:30.080
<v Speaker 3>way full service restaurants operate. They want to change the

41
00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:33.680
<v Speaker 3>way service and bartenders get paid. And we are we're

42
00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:34.719
<v Speaker 3>vehemently opposed.

43
00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:36.919
<v Speaker 2>Okay, we're gon we're gonna We're gonna break it down

44
00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:39.759
<v Speaker 2>for sure. But I just wanted to emphasize to my

45
00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:44.599
<v Speaker 2>audience that we have reached out. My producer, Marita aka

46
00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:49.360
<v Speaker 2>Lady Lightning, she gets to people pretty pretty well. She

47
00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:51.879
<v Speaker 2>has a note here. The Yes campaign has not responded

48
00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:56.039
<v Speaker 2>to our request, our request to join the conversation tonight,

49
00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:59.319
<v Speaker 2>So let's let's try to Whenever we deal with numbers,

50
00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:02.360
<v Speaker 2>I found out on on radio it's very difficult to

51
00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:08.560
<v Speaker 2>deal with numbers. So let's take the situation now in Massachusetts.

52
00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:11.719
<v Speaker 2>If you happen to be working as somebody who's on

53
00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:17.000
<v Speaker 2>a weight staff, meaning I assume you're somebody who's interacting,

54
00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:19.840
<v Speaker 2>and if my definition is wrong or if the definition

55
00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:23.759
<v Speaker 2>needs to be increased or lied more limited, it's the

56
00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:26.759
<v Speaker 2>waiter waitress that comes up, approaches you at the table

57
00:03:26.759 --> 00:03:30.639
<v Speaker 2>and says, good evening, welcome to such and such. You

58
00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:33.520
<v Speaker 2>know I'm going to be a wait person tonight. That's

59
00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:36.680
<v Speaker 2>what we're Those are the waiters and bartenders. I assume also.

60
00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:39.199
<v Speaker 3>People who exactly the people at the front of the

61
00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:41.479
<v Speaker 3>house of the restaurants that are providing the great service

62
00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:44.080
<v Speaker 3>and the great hospitality that we've come to expect in

63
00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:45.840
<v Speaker 3>restaurants across Massachusetts.

64
00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:50.879
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so those folks, their minimum wage is six dollars

65
00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:53.719
<v Speaker 2>and twenty five cents. I assume there's nothing that would

66
00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:58.439
<v Speaker 2>stop a business owner from paying a waiter or a waitress,

67
00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:02.639
<v Speaker 2>or a bartender who does a particularly good job, maybe

68
00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:07.199
<v Speaker 2>even some particularly bartenders that that people go to the

69
00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:10.479
<v Speaker 2>bar to interact with the bartender. They can get more

70
00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:12.759
<v Speaker 2>money if the if the owner wants to pay the

71
00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:16.480
<v Speaker 2>more money. Correct But the minimum is six twenty five, So.

72
00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:19.360
<v Speaker 3>A couple of corrections, so it's actually six seventy five

73
00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:20.759
<v Speaker 3>and went up about.

74
00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:21.079
<v Speaker 4>A year ago.

75
00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:25.040
<v Speaker 3>So six seventy five is the base wage, and that

76
00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:28.480
<v Speaker 3>assumes that at least eight dollars and twenty five cents

77
00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:31.120
<v Speaker 3>will be made in tips. But the minimum wage is

78
00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:34.480
<v Speaker 3>actually fifteen. So when a server comes into the bar

79
00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:38.399
<v Speaker 3>restaurant and checks in, whether they serve one guest or

80
00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:42.839
<v Speaker 3>one hundred guests, they're guaranteed fifteen dollars an hour through

81
00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:46.759
<v Speaker 3>some combination of the hourly wage and the tips. The

82
00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:49.319
<v Speaker 3>reality is far more than fifteen dollars. We can get

83
00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:50.879
<v Speaker 3>into that, but that's not what the law.

84
00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:54.600
<v Speaker 2>I think what you're saying is that unless you work

85
00:04:54.759 --> 00:05:01.399
<v Speaker 2>in the restaurant which is overstaffed and and there's very

86
00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:04.519
<v Speaker 2>few people coming in the door, it's tough not to

87
00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:07.920
<v Speaker 2>make fifteen dollars an hour as as a waiter or

88
00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:10.439
<v Speaker 2>a waitress or a bartender. I think that's what you're applying,

89
00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:11.079
<v Speaker 2>am I.

90
00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:14.040
<v Speaker 3>Correct, Absolutely, it's tough not to make twenty two dollars

91
00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:17.319
<v Speaker 3>an hour. But yes, the law is you are required

92
00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:20.639
<v Speaker 3>fifteen dollars per hour regardless of when you work. So, yes,

93
00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:25.120
<v Speaker 3>there is a a so called tip wage, and that

94
00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:28.879
<v Speaker 3>just merely allows the restaurant owner to employ more people

95
00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:31.319
<v Speaker 3>to provide the full service that comes along in a

96
00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:32.360
<v Speaker 3>full service restaurant.

97
00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:39.680
<v Speaker 2>So let's assume let's assume some waiter or waitress gets

98
00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:43.160
<v Speaker 2>let's say they work a four hour ship shift. We'll

99
00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:47.800
<v Speaker 2>keep it simple, and let's assume that they get sixty

100
00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:51.240
<v Speaker 2>bucks in tips. Okay, roughly, we'll make it easy. So

101
00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:54.439
<v Speaker 2>they got fifteen dollars in tips. They will also be

102
00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:57.399
<v Speaker 2>paid the six dollars and seventy five cents.

103
00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:00.360
<v Speaker 3>Or exactly, so they're making twenty one seventy five an hour.

104
00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:04.079
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So okay, Now, what happens if the waiter or

105
00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:08.959
<v Speaker 2>waitress is somehow disingenuous and puts some of the tips

106
00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:11.000
<v Speaker 2>in one pocket and some of the tips in the other.

107
00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:15.360
<v Speaker 2>How does a restaurant own a control? You know, I'm

108
00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:17.560
<v Speaker 2>not saying any waitress or waitress that I have ever

109
00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:21.000
<v Speaker 2>met would do such a thing, but as a hypersonic question,

110
00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:25.319
<v Speaker 2>of course, it's a hypothetical question. How does the owner

111
00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:27.639
<v Speaker 2>of the restaurant, who could only have his his or

112
00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:30.600
<v Speaker 2>her eyes in so many places at any given time,

113
00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:35.839
<v Speaker 2>how do they know that that?

114
00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:40.079
<v Speaker 3>So the vast majority of restaurants have are our seventy

115
00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:43.040
<v Speaker 3>eighty ninety percent credit card, so it's kind of hard

116
00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:45.199
<v Speaker 3>to hide the cash tips the way people used to

117
00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:47.759
<v Speaker 3>hide them in the in the seventies and eighties and

118
00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:50.639
<v Speaker 3>even the nineties. You know, most transactions are happening on

119
00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:54.000
<v Speaker 3>a credit card, so you're only really seeing ten to

120
00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:58.519
<v Speaker 3>fifteen percent of all transactions in a given shift our cash.

121
00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:01.439
<v Speaker 3>And so it's actually much easy here to track the

122
00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:03.519
<v Speaker 3>hours worked and the tips that have come in than

123
00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:06.279
<v Speaker 3>it was, you know, ten, fifteen, twenty years ago.

124
00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:09.519
<v Speaker 2>So is that done. I've never worked as a waiter,

125
00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:12.480
<v Speaker 2>never worked as a waiter, a waitress never worked as

126
00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:16.240
<v Speaker 2>a waitstaff person. Let's assume that at this day and age,

127
00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:18.600
<v Speaker 2>my wife and I go out to dinners one hundred dollars.

128
00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.680
<v Speaker 2>I'll put twenty percent of the on the credit card.

129
00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:26.120
<v Speaker 2>So does the house then understand? Okay, this twenty dollars

130
00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:29.120
<v Speaker 2>is going to be credited to the waiter a waitress

131
00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:30.040
<v Speaker 2>that serves that table.

132
00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:35.600
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, absolutely. And if there's severe penalties, the severe

133
00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:38.079
<v Speaker 3>penalties both in not paying a serve of the full

134
00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:41.279
<v Speaker 3>minimum wage. We have triple damages in Massachusetts. So that's

135
00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:46.720
<v Speaker 3>a serious wage violation, a right exactly. And then also

136
00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:50.279
<v Speaker 3>the tips. There's a very strict lawge Massachusetts of who

137
00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:52.920
<v Speaker 3>can share in tips. The tips can only go to

138
00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:55.800
<v Speaker 3>employee that's provided a direct service to the consumer.

139
00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:59.319
<v Speaker 2>Okay, that's going to get into this this issue as well. Okay,

140
00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:02.600
<v Speaker 2>so I think Steve set the stage. Uh, if there

141
00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:06.000
<v Speaker 2>are people who are wait staff people and want to

142
00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:09.879
<v Speaker 2>chime in, you would be most affected by this piece

143
00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:12.759
<v Speaker 2>of legislation. I'm sure there are some arguments on the

144
00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:14.439
<v Speaker 2>other side. We'll try to get to those as well.

145
00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:18.360
<v Speaker 2>Six one seven, two four ten thirty six one seven nine,

146
00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:20.600
<v Speaker 2>ten thirty My name is Dan Ray. This is night Side.

147
00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.079
<v Speaker 2>Let's get back at our conversation right after this very

148
00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:24.680
<v Speaker 2>quick break.

149
00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:29.680
<v Speaker 1>Now back to Dan Ray live from the window world

150
00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:33.600
<v Speaker 1>to night Side Studios. I'm WBZ News Radio.

151
00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:36.440
<v Speaker 2>My guess it's Steve Clark, President and CEO of the

152
00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:41.080
<v Speaker 2>Massachusetts Restaurant Association. So Steve, give you a chance now

153
00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:44.399
<v Speaker 2>since we've kind of laid out the way it all works.

154
00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:47.519
<v Speaker 2>Right now, what is the problem with this ballot question?

155
00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:49.679
<v Speaker 2>You guys are opposed to it. I believe that there's

156
00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:55.120
<v Speaker 2>a pretty good amount of waiters and waitresses, weight staff

157
00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:59.440
<v Speaker 2>people also who are opposed to this. What what is

158
00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:03.360
<v Speaker 2>it going to do that it's going to disrupt circumstances,

159
00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:05.720
<v Speaker 2>and why is it a bad idea?

160
00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:09.720
<v Speaker 3>So the very first thing the mass Restaurant Association did

161
00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:12.919
<v Speaker 3>was poll servers, the very servers and bar centers that

162
00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:15.200
<v Speaker 3>were going to be impacted by this question, and we

163
00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:17.600
<v Speaker 3>actually put the language of the ballot before them and

164
00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:20.919
<v Speaker 3>said what do you think about this? And then overwhelming

165
00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:23.480
<v Speaker 3>majority came back and said, we don't want this. This

166
00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:26.399
<v Speaker 3>is going to impact my earnings. Ninety percent of the

167
00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:29.519
<v Speaker 3>respondents came back and said this is a bad idea.

168
00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:32.879
<v Speaker 3>Eighty eight percent think that they have to share their

169
00:09:32.919 --> 00:09:36.480
<v Speaker 3>tips with other employees that don't provide direct service, they're

170
00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:39.840
<v Speaker 3>going to make less money. And the proponents never asked

171
00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:42.039
<v Speaker 3>any of the servers in Massachusetts if they wanted this.

172
00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:45.759
<v Speaker 3>A very similar bill was just passed in Washington, DC,

173
00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:49.200
<v Speaker 3>and it's been a disaster for the restaurant industry down there.

174
00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:52.559
<v Speaker 3>Ten percent of the full service jobs are gone in

175
00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:55.960
<v Speaker 3>less than a year. Ninety six percent of restaurants have

176
00:09:56.120 --> 00:09:59.480
<v Speaker 3>raised prices. And what we're really seeing is the implementation

177
00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:02.679
<v Speaker 3>of service charges. I'm not lying. Someone just texted me

178
00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:06.559
<v Speaker 3>a bill from Washington, DC and it says twenty percent

179
00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:09.480
<v Speaker 3>service charge. You don't need to tip. Well, the service

180
00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:13.080
<v Speaker 3>charge belongs to the restaurant owner to dictate where that

181
00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:16.240
<v Speaker 3>gets spent. So that's a loss of income for the servers.

182
00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:19.320
<v Speaker 3>So we've had one thousand servers go to our website

183
00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:21.600
<v Speaker 3>and sign up and join our petition and join our

184
00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:26.279
<v Speaker 3>campaign and more importantly, and I think what shows the

185
00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:29.759
<v Speaker 3>true nature of this campaign is almost one hundred servers

186
00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:34.159
<v Speaker 3>and bartenders have contributed financially to the null on five campaign.

187
00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.200
<v Speaker 3>They've reached into their hard earned dollars and contributed five

188
00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:40.320
<v Speaker 3>to ten fifteen dollars. The proponents of this question have

189
00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:44.080
<v Speaker 3>not one server or bartender from Massachusetts that has even

190
00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:46.799
<v Speaker 3>contributed to this campaign at all. So I think it

191
00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:49.200
<v Speaker 3>speaks pretty clear that the service and bartenders don't want

192
00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:51.480
<v Speaker 3>it because they're going to see a direct loss in

193
00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:53.320
<v Speaker 3>tips or in jobs.

194
00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:59.960
<v Speaker 2>So the impact on the current servers under the current circumstances,

195
00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:04.240
<v Speaker 2>economic circumstances. Uh, if if they make one hundred dollars

196
00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:08.759
<v Speaker 2>in tip some night by waiting on customers, waiting tables,

197
00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:14.799
<v Speaker 2>serving tables, that money is credited to them, uh, they

198
00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:18.919
<v Speaker 2>they do not have to share that money with the

199
00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:21.519
<v Speaker 2>cooks or the bottle washers or any of the back

200
00:11:21.559 --> 00:11:22.600
<v Speaker 2>of the house people.

201
00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:25.080
<v Speaker 3>Right exactly, exactly, Okay.

202
00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:32.559
<v Speaker 2>Uh so so what is this California group attempting to

203
00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:35.440
<v Speaker 2>do here? Again, we had a tough time tracking any

204
00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:38.919
<v Speaker 2>of them down, any any representative, and my producer is

205
00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:44.679
<v Speaker 2>very good at getting people to join us. What what

206
00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:46.919
<v Speaker 2>is what is their goal here? Who are the if

207
00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:49.519
<v Speaker 2>if the waiters and waitresses aren't thrilled with this? And

208
00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:53.840
<v Speaker 2>I've seen some uh some television ads I'm not sure

209
00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:58.440
<v Speaker 2>if they're your ads or not, which have have shown

210
00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:01.480
<v Speaker 2>people who were you surfers who was saying they didn't

211
00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:08.399
<v Speaker 2>like it? What is the potential argument? Again, there's no

212
00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:11.120
<v Speaker 2>one on the other side to make the argument. What

213
00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:15.879
<v Speaker 2>is the potential argument that they are making two people

214
00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:18.639
<v Speaker 2>to get in Massachusetts to support this this.

215
00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:22.440
<v Speaker 3>Well, I don't usually want to tell the people that

216
00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:26.080
<v Speaker 3>have endorsed a yes, but the Democratic Socialists of Massachusetts

217
00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:30.120
<v Speaker 3>Boston Chapter have endorsed the yes on this question. Yeah,

218
00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:34.240
<v Speaker 3>so you know they they they're they're they're this organization.

219
00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:37.879
<v Speaker 2>How about like the Young the Young Socialist League.

220
00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:42.639
<v Speaker 3>You know, they're probably lining up next, they might endorse tomorrow.

221
00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:49.080
<v Speaker 3>It's it's really rooted in a in a desire to

222
00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:54.320
<v Speaker 3>pay everyone in the restaurant the same wage and regardless

223
00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:58.919
<v Speaker 3>of how hard you've worked, regardless of how how hard

224
00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:02.159
<v Speaker 3>you're going to work, regardless of your skill set. And

225
00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:04.440
<v Speaker 3>that's what makes the restaurant industry great. It's a it's

226
00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:08.840
<v Speaker 3>an opportunity to have unlimited earnings. You can go in

227
00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:13.480
<v Speaker 3>and providing credible service to a guest and making credible

228
00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:16.279
<v Speaker 3>earnings in limited hours. So they really want to get

229
00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:18.679
<v Speaker 3>away from tipping and they want to pay everybody one

230
00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.039
<v Speaker 3>wage their organization is called one Fair Wage. I don't

231
00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:25.639
<v Speaker 3>use that name very frequently, but it's really one flat wage.

232
00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:26.879
<v Speaker 3>They want to pay everybody the same.

233
00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:30.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's always interesting when you hear a group like that.

234
00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:37.120
<v Speaker 2>What do you mean by by fair fair to whom? Whatever?

235
00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:41.840
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. Look, if there are some people who

236
00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:44.000
<v Speaker 2>work in the service industry who are out there and

237
00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:48.320
<v Speaker 2>would like to chime in on whatever side of this question. Uh,

238
00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:51.360
<v Speaker 2>there was a poll that was done recently by my

239
00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:54.840
<v Speaker 2>friend Dave Paleologus of Suffolk University, and it was in

240
00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:57.519
<v Speaker 2>the Boston Globe a couple of days ago. And if

241
00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:01.120
<v Speaker 2>I recall, it's one of those questions, it's it's the

242
00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.120
<v Speaker 2>last questions question number five. And and you guys are

243
00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:07.399
<v Speaker 2>advocating for a no vote.

244
00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:10.159
<v Speaker 3>Obviously, we want to know. We want no changes to

245
00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:13.200
<v Speaker 3>the existing law nor the tip pulling law. That we

246
00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:15.120
<v Speaker 3>just want the We want a lot to stay the same.

247
00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:19.440
<v Speaker 2>Okay. So, but what this law would do is it

248
00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:21.559
<v Speaker 2>would mandate tip pooling.

249
00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:24.960
<v Speaker 4>Uh So it wouldn't. It wouldn't.

250
00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:27.519
<v Speaker 3>It wouldn't mandate tip pooling. It would just it would

251
00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:30.399
<v Speaker 3>allow the restaurant owner to mandate tip pooling. So if

252
00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:33.960
<v Speaker 3>the restaurant owner decided they could now move the tips

253
00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:37.039
<v Speaker 3>however they seem fit, so a manager would never be

254
00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:39.360
<v Speaker 3>able to collect the tips. I think that's pretty clear

255
00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:42.120
<v Speaker 3>in the law. But the if they wanted to share

256
00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:43.960
<v Speaker 3>tips with the back of the house, with the host,

257
00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:48.720
<v Speaker 3>maybe with the social media manager, maybe with the accountants,

258
00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:52.080
<v Speaker 3>maybe with the person that cleans the restaurant at night,

259
00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:55.679
<v Speaker 3>there's no restrictions on where those tips can go. And

260
00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:58.519
<v Speaker 3>I think that's truly the server and bartender opposition is

261
00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:02.879
<v Speaker 3>they're harder and tips are now being disseminated as wages

262
00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:05.840
<v Speaker 3>to other employees throughout the restaurant enterprise.

263
00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:11.600
<v Speaker 2>Right, and what this would do also, I think it

264
00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:17.080
<v Speaker 2>will have an immediate impact that the minimum wage which

265
00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:23.799
<v Speaker 2>the servers are being paid above and beyond their tips,

266
00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:28.679
<v Speaker 2>would go to nine dollars and nine dollars and sixty

267
00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:32.399
<v Speaker 2>cents year one on January first, year two would bump

268
00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:36.799
<v Speaker 2>up to ten ninety five year three. January first, twenty

269
00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:38.919
<v Speaker 2>six would be twelve thirty eight. It would eventually get

270
00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:44.559
<v Speaker 2>up to fifteen dollars by January first of twenty twenty seven.

271
00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:49.200
<v Speaker 3>Right, So think about so Dan, think about a small

272
00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:53.960
<v Speaker 3>restaurant across Massachusetts, in any town, and just the labor

273
00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.519
<v Speaker 3>cost that's going to go up in year one. Now,

274
00:15:56.600 --> 00:16:00.200
<v Speaker 3>most full service restaurants, two thirds of the employees at

275
00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:03.559
<v Speaker 3>the restaurant are tipped employees. So it's the highest percentage

276
00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:05.919
<v Speaker 3>of staff that you have in your restaurant. If that

277
00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:08.840
<v Speaker 3>labor cost goes up from the six seventy five right

278
00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:13.000
<v Speaker 3>now to the nine thirty on January first, as almost

279
00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:17.519
<v Speaker 3>three dollars per tipped employee hour, So one employee working

280
00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:19.799
<v Speaker 3>forty hours a week, that's one hundred and twenty dollars

281
00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:24.519
<v Speaker 3>business costs. Multiply that out by every server in every week.

282
00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:28.120
<v Speaker 3>That's an insane increase in a for the restaurant industry

283
00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:30.320
<v Speaker 3>that operates on a three to five percent margin.

284
00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:34.039
<v Speaker 2>It's not sole that's going to that's going to increase

285
00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:40.440
<v Speaker 2>the costs that the restaurant will have to charge customers exactly.

286
00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:42.600
<v Speaker 3>So they have to make up that price somehow. They're

287
00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:44.759
<v Speaker 3>either going to increase the cost or they're going to

288
00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:47.320
<v Speaker 3>put a service charge on because there's only one way

289
00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:49.679
<v Speaker 3>to generate money in a restaurant, and that's the product

290
00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:51.919
<v Speaker 3>on the menu price for the product.

291
00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:58.799
<v Speaker 2>So you're you're convinced that well, the poll that it

292
00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:04.799
<v Speaker 2>just was alluding to you, you were no vote was prevailing,

293
00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:08.000
<v Speaker 2>but there was still forty percent of the people who

294
00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:12.319
<v Speaker 2>if I recall correctly, thirty nine percent that were saying yes.

295
00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:14.680
<v Speaker 4>Because it sounds good.

296
00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:17.960
<v Speaker 3>Everyone wants to take care of their server and their bartenders, Like, yeah,

297
00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:20.119
<v Speaker 3>of course, I think this helps servis and bartenders. But

298
00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:22.400
<v Speaker 3>then when they actually asked their bartender and their server,

299
00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:24.359
<v Speaker 3>they're like, wait a minute, this isn't going to help me.

300
00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:27.880
<v Speaker 3>And so when the proponents first filed this question earlier

301
00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:31.119
<v Speaker 3>this year, they were touting fifty eight percent support. So

302
00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:34.359
<v Speaker 3>their support has been crumbling in eroding, and the Boston

303
00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:36.799
<v Speaker 3>Globe pole showed that it was less than forty percent.

304
00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:39.880
<v Speaker 3>So people are learning, and I think when they hear

305
00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:42.400
<v Speaker 3>more from the services and bartenders, they hear from the

306
00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:45.960
<v Speaker 3>local restaurant owners, they hear from the coalition of mayors

307
00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:48.359
<v Speaker 3>that are on both sides of the aisle that have

308
00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:50.960
<v Speaker 3>come out and posed the house chair aways and means.

309
00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:52.400
<v Speaker 3>Aaron Michelwitz came out today.

310
00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:54.359
<v Speaker 2>I saw that by the way, that was that was

311
00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:57.720
<v Speaker 2>an interesting, you know, interesting that he would weigh in

312
00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:01.160
<v Speaker 2>on it. Of course, he represents the district. A part

313
00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:03.960
<v Speaker 2>of his district is the North End, which is repleat

314
00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:07.880
<v Speaker 2>with restaurants, great Italian restaurants. I should I should mention,

315
00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:11.319
<v Speaker 2>but yes, so he very well might be influenced by

316
00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:13.200
<v Speaker 2>by that constituency.

317
00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:16.000
<v Speaker 3>But still obviously he also he had there was there

318
00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:18.799
<v Speaker 3>was three servers that came and spoke and said that

319
00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:21.960
<v Speaker 3>they didn't want this. So yes, he has a he

320
00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:24.920
<v Speaker 3>has a vibrant restaurant district, but he also has a

321
00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:27.160
<v Speaker 3>lot of vibrant restaurant employees from there.

322
00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:34.599
<v Speaker 2>Have any of the state elected officials, the governor, either

323
00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:39.319
<v Speaker 2>of our senators are six constitutional offices, which of course

324
00:18:39.359 --> 00:18:41.559
<v Speaker 2>one of which would be the governor, of governor, lieutenant governor,

325
00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:46.359
<v Speaker 2>Attorney general, Secretary of state, auditor, state treasurer. Have any

326
00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:48.720
<v Speaker 2>of them come out with endorsements one way or the other.

327
00:18:49.559 --> 00:18:53.160
<v Speaker 3>No, they've They've all remained neutral thus far, okay, and

328
00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:56.400
<v Speaker 3>which I think tells you, which I think speaks volumes

329
00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:00.559
<v Speaker 3>that you know, normally when they when you talk about

330
00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:04.480
<v Speaker 3>a minimum wage discussion, most of our elected officials come

331
00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:06.839
<v Speaker 3>on board and say, yes, a good idea. So I

332
00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:10.119
<v Speaker 3>think their silence speaks volumes that they don't believe this

333
00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:12.960
<v Speaker 3>is a good idea. And then to go one step further,

334
00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:18.240
<v Speaker 3>the hospitality union is opposed to this. Well, is neutral

335
00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:21.920
<v Speaker 3>on this question because they don't like the tip sharing

336
00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:25.160
<v Speaker 3>aspect of it. So it's not often that the hospitality

337
00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:27.480
<v Speaker 3>union and the business owners agree on the same thing.

338
00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:31.240
<v Speaker 3>Evidence of what's going on in the city recently, but

339
00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:33.279
<v Speaker 3>they are not in favor of this ballot question.

340
00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:37.839
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, if perhaps the two issues spends pet been split,

341
00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:40.799
<v Speaker 2>the one fair share group might have at least had

342
00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:44.480
<v Speaker 2>a hope of getting the first question, but certainly not

343
00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:50.960
<v Speaker 2>the tip sharing question. It's very interesting. Have they spent

344
00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:53.119
<v Speaker 2>this group you said, has spent a million dollars on

345
00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:56.119
<v Speaker 2>the ballot. Have they been spending a lot of advertising?

346
00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:00.440
<v Speaker 3>To my knowledge, there hasn't been much advertising. Mostly they

347
00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:03.400
<v Speaker 3>spent a lot of their money to get on the ballot.

348
00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:06.000
<v Speaker 3>They did make reference in a Boston Globe article a

349
00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:08.920
<v Speaker 3>few months ago that they had a two million dollar

350
00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:14.359
<v Speaker 3>anonymous donation. Now, Massachusetts law prohibits anonymous donations. You have

351
00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:16.920
<v Speaker 3>to disclose what you spend. But they did say in

352
00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:20.000
<v Speaker 3>a Boston Globe atom article that they had an anonymous donation.

353
00:20:20.279 --> 00:20:22.480
<v Speaker 3>So we're we're waiting for them to spend.

354
00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:26.039
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, any any way possible that the that donor's last

355
00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:27.480
<v Speaker 2>name is Soros.

356
00:20:28.279 --> 00:20:32.359
<v Speaker 3>You know there, it may be. There's a lot of

357
00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:35.240
<v Speaker 3>funding that happened in California that makes its way into politics,

358
00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:36.680
<v Speaker 3>politics and other states.

359
00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:39.920
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, no doubt, no doubt. All right, Steve, let's

360
00:20:39.960 --> 00:20:42.279
<v Speaker 2>take a break. I'd like to hear from people who

361
00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:46.000
<v Speaker 2>were affected by this, So give us a call at

362
00:20:46.039 --> 00:20:49.480
<v Speaker 2>six one seven four ten thirty. Uh, if you have

363
00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:52.400
<v Speaker 2>a different point of view, you're more than welcome, no

364
00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:57.160
<v Speaker 2>doubt about that. Or six one seven nine, come on,

365
00:20:57.720 --> 00:20:59.880
<v Speaker 2>give us a l particularly if you if you have

366
00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:04.119
<v Speaker 2>some relationship to the industry, because when when I hear

367
00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:09.720
<v Speaker 2>that both the owners, the restaurant owners and the employees

368
00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:12.880
<v Speaker 2>are both opposed to this, or I'm sure we can

369
00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:15.119
<v Speaker 2>find exceptions. If there are some out there who take

370
00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:17.759
<v Speaker 2>it a different way, coming up with a different take,

371
00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:20.000
<v Speaker 2>we'd love to hear from you. Six one seven two

372
00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:23.160
<v Speaker 2>five four ten thirty. Got one line, two lines open

373
00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:25.680
<v Speaker 2>there and six one seven nine three one ten thirty.

374
00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:27.799
<v Speaker 2>Oh those lines filled? Do you want to call it now?

375
00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:30.400
<v Speaker 2>Six one seven nine three one ten thirty. We'll be

376
00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:31.680
<v Speaker 2>back on nightside right after.

377
00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:38.200
<v Speaker 1>This It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's News Radio.

378
00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:40.880
<v Speaker 2>All right, my guest is Steve Clark. He is the

379
00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:44.400
<v Speaker 2>president and CEO of the mass Restaurant Association, and we're

380
00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:49.440
<v Speaker 2>talking about Massachusetts ballot Question five that proposes giving tipped

381
00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:55.559
<v Speaker 2>workers an increase uh in their base wage beginning next

382
00:21:55.680 --> 00:22:00.759
<v Speaker 2>January and continuing for five years until it reaches a

383
00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:05.400
<v Speaker 2>base wage of fifteen dollars an hour. That base wage,

384
00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:08.200
<v Speaker 2>it's actually well twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight,

385
00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:11.160
<v Speaker 2>twenty nine. It would be twenty twenty nine that they

386
00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:15.440
<v Speaker 2>would reach the fifteen dollars an hour plateau. But the

387
00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:19.000
<v Speaker 2>Restaurant Association is opposed to it, and apparently a lot

388
00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:22.039
<v Speaker 2>of restaurant workers, if not a vast majority of restaurant workers,

389
00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:25.200
<v Speaker 2>were opposed to it because it would also include the

390
00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:28.920
<v Speaker 2>obligation for wait staff to pull the wages that they

391
00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:33.000
<v Speaker 2>earned its tips with folks in what they call the

392
00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:37.720
<v Speaker 2>back of the house, cooks and clean up people. And

393
00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:41.240
<v Speaker 2>so this seems to me to be a question that

394
00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:43.680
<v Speaker 2>is not likely to succeed, but it's one it's important

395
00:22:43.720 --> 00:22:46.279
<v Speaker 2>to talk about. So let's get to phone calls and

396
00:22:46.279 --> 00:22:48.559
<v Speaker 2>see what would you have to say, those of you

397
00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:50.880
<v Speaker 2>who happen to be in the industry love to get

398
00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:54.519
<v Speaker 2>your perspective. We did try to reach out today to

399
00:22:54.599 --> 00:22:58.119
<v Speaker 2>the proponents of this group, the Yes Campaign, but they

400
00:22:58.160 --> 00:23:01.559
<v Speaker 2>did not respond to our request to participate tonight. And

401
00:23:01.599 --> 00:23:04.799
<v Speaker 2>apparently there are groups that is based in California and

402
00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:08.920
<v Speaker 2>puts this type of ballid question on ballats, not only

403
00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:11.559
<v Speaker 2>here in Massachusetts, but elsewhere as well. So let's start

404
00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:13.640
<v Speaker 2>it off with Joe and Gloucester. Joe, you were first

405
00:23:13.640 --> 00:23:16.000
<v Speaker 2>tonight with Steve Clark, the president and CEO of the

406
00:23:16.039 --> 00:23:17.720
<v Speaker 2>Massachusetts Restaurant Association.

407
00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:22.640
<v Speaker 4>Go ahead, Joe, Yeah. I thought it'd be interesting for

408
00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:28.000
<v Speaker 4>Steve to speak to where this question had actually I

409
00:23:28.039 --> 00:23:30.920
<v Speaker 4>don't know if it was the same exact question that

410
00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:33.480
<v Speaker 4>had passed, but up in the town up in Maine,

411
00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:36.559
<v Speaker 4>and the results that kind of followed with that.

412
00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:42.079
<v Speaker 2>Are you familiar with what Joe's I.

413
00:23:42.119 --> 00:23:46.519
<v Speaker 3>Do feel a very A similar proposal was passed in Portland,

414
00:23:46.599 --> 00:23:50.519
<v Speaker 3>Maine in twenty sixteen. A couple of months after it

415
00:23:50.519 --> 00:23:53.599
<v Speaker 3>went into effect, the servers were seeing an actual loss

416
00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:56.200
<v Speaker 3>in their earnings, and they went and rallied to city

417
00:23:56.240 --> 00:23:59.680
<v Speaker 3>Hall and they got the law reversed. So that's a

418
00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:04.240
<v Speaker 3>sign of where a municipality tried this and it didn't work,

419
00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:08.440
<v Speaker 3>and the service successfully lobbied their elected officials and they

420
00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:09.079
<v Speaker 3>repealed it.

421
00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:13.319
<v Speaker 2>So that probably wasn't a ballot question. It probably was

422
00:24:13.400 --> 00:24:16.720
<v Speaker 2>something that passed by their city council in mayor, so

423
00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:19.440
<v Speaker 2>easy to turn that around if this one were to

424
00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:23.119
<v Speaker 2>pass as a ballot question. It's tough to turn balot

425
00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:27.119
<v Speaker 2>questions around in Massachusetts. I hope the people who are

426
00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:28.440
<v Speaker 2>voting on this realized that.

427
00:24:29.880 --> 00:24:30.079
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

428
00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:33.079
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely, the legislature generally defers to the to the to

429
00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:35.920
<v Speaker 3>the voting public on a ballot question. I believe it

430
00:24:35.960 --> 00:24:38.519
<v Speaker 3>was a city referendum. It wasn't a statewide referendum. I

431
00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:41.319
<v Speaker 3>think it was just a City of Portland referendum.

432
00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:45.079
<v Speaker 2>City ordinance or a city regulation. They made a mistake,

433
00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:49.279
<v Speaker 2>they turned it around. Joe. Are you involved in the

434
00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:51.279
<v Speaker 2>industry at all, Joe.

435
00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:52.359
<v Speaker 4>Yes, yes we are.

436
00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:58.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Turner seat foods, which one turn to seafoods Turner Seafoods.

437
00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:02.200
<v Speaker 4>Yes. So we have locations, we have a couple of

438
00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:04.920
<v Speaker 4>different locations. But you know, our concern on this, and

439
00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:09.000
<v Speaker 4>we've shared this with Steve is is people walking into

440
00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:12.799
<v Speaker 4>the ballot booth that just aren't educated on it. Yeah,

441
00:25:12.839 --> 00:25:15.160
<v Speaker 4>and you know, I think you know, for many people,

442
00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:18.160
<v Speaker 4>I mean, you know, they they think it's it's it's

443
00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:21.799
<v Speaker 4>only fair if someone's going to be making if someone's

444
00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:24.759
<v Speaker 4>making six seventy five, and they in the you know,

445
00:25:24.759 --> 00:25:27.119
<v Speaker 4>their understanding of it is, you know, why not pay

446
00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:31.160
<v Speaker 4>them minimum wage? But you know this this we we

447
00:25:31.160 --> 00:25:33.200
<v Speaker 4>we love, we love what your show is doing. And

448
00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:36.400
<v Speaker 4>just giving giving more education to the public, Well, I

449
00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:36.799
<v Speaker 4>think it's.

450
00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:39.559
<v Speaker 2>Important because what happens is everybody, particularly in the president's

451
00:25:39.559 --> 00:25:41.680
<v Speaker 2>your year, they goes, they go in and no one's

452
00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:44.359
<v Speaker 2>making up their mind as they're as they're you know,

453
00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:47.000
<v Speaker 2>walking into the polling place. They know who they're going

454
00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:49.000
<v Speaker 2>to vote for president. They probably know who they're going

455
00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:51.480
<v Speaker 2>to vote for US senator. When they get to those

456
00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:55.240
<v Speaker 2>ballot questions, they'll either tend to blank them or their

457
00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:58.039
<v Speaker 2>instinct will be probably to say yes because most people

458
00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:00.640
<v Speaker 2>that's a good idea. Yes yes, yes, yes, yes yes,

459
00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:06.599
<v Speaker 2>And that's uh that that's an advantage for any particularly

460
00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:08.759
<v Speaker 2>if they read the first sentence and I don't know

461
00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:11.880
<v Speaker 2>how the ballot question is phrased. I haven't gotten my

462
00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:15.440
<v Speaker 2>ballot question book yet, uh, which which I always look

463
00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:18.000
<v Speaker 2>forward to getting because you can look before you get

464
00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:20.960
<v Speaker 2>to the polls. And really I try to understand the

465
00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:23.599
<v Speaker 2>ballot questions ahead of time, by the way, but you

466
00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:25.440
<v Speaker 2>look when you go to the polls and you say

467
00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:27.680
<v Speaker 2>to yourself, Okay, I know what I'm going to do,

468
00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:29.200
<v Speaker 2>and I take a little card with me. I'm going

469
00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:31.240
<v Speaker 2>to go, you know, on this one, I'm going to

470
00:26:31.319 --> 00:26:33.440
<v Speaker 2>go yes or no, so I know exactly what it is,

471
00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:35.599
<v Speaker 2>so I'm not sitting in there or you know, tying

472
00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:37.920
<v Speaker 2>people up for an hour and a half. Joe, appreciate

473
00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:41.119
<v Speaker 2>your joining us with your perspective. I appreciate you listening

474
00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:41.720
<v Speaker 2>to Night's Side.

475
00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:46.319
<v Speaker 3>Thanks dam, Thanks Sam, Thanks Thank Joe. Good luck in

476
00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:48.720
<v Speaker 3>Salem in October. I know that's an extremely busy time

477
00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:51.480
<v Speaker 3>for you. Get thank you it is.

478
00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:54.880
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, good night. Let me keep rolling here. We get

479
00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:56.720
<v Speaker 2>one more in before the news break, and we're going

480
00:26:56.759 --> 00:26:59.240
<v Speaker 2>to go to a gym down on the self Shore

481
00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:02.200
<v Speaker 2>and hint over Massachusetts. Chim, you're next on Nightside with

482
00:27:02.279 --> 00:27:05.960
<v Speaker 2>Steve Clark, the president CEO of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association.

483
00:27:08.119 --> 00:27:13.440
<v Speaker 5>Yeah. Hi, I used to be a Canada custodian, and

484
00:27:13.519 --> 00:27:18.680
<v Speaker 5>I'd cleaned the whole bowl in the li carpets, benches,

485
00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:24.079
<v Speaker 5>the bar, and the bartender would want it a certain way.

486
00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:29.839
<v Speaker 5>And I asked at the very first night of my tenure,

487
00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:34.359
<v Speaker 5>I asked if I got some of the tip and

488
00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:37.960
<v Speaker 5>they were, oh, no, you don't get that. That's the bartenders.

489
00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:41.039
<v Speaker 5>And I said, well, the reason he gets the tip

490
00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:45.559
<v Speaker 5>it isn't just when making the drink. It's for the

491
00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:51.119
<v Speaker 5>clean area. All the stools are all cleaned, the floor

492
00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:55.000
<v Speaker 5>around the bar is cleaned, and the butt in the

493
00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:59.480
<v Speaker 5>Jandita should get a percentage of the tip. That was

494
00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:04.440
<v Speaker 5>my my pet pee for working there and washing dishes.

495
00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:07.720
<v Speaker 5>I for washed dishes, and I've made sure there was

496
00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:11.440
<v Speaker 5>no food stuck on the plate. I'm sure people don't

497
00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:14.400
<v Speaker 5>want to stare a food on a plate that's got

498
00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:19.039
<v Speaker 5>something stuck to him. So it's you.

499
00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:24.759
<v Speaker 2>I don't think you can hear me and talk to

500
00:28:24.839 --> 00:28:26.799
<v Speaker 2>Jim and tell him I want to ask him a question.

501
00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:29.240
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to talk over him, but I'd like

502
00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:31.079
<v Speaker 2>to be able to ask him a question. So if

503
00:28:31.079 --> 00:28:33.720
<v Speaker 2>he's if you're able to bring him back up, let's

504
00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:35.400
<v Speaker 2>see if we can get a question into him. I

505
00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:37.880
<v Speaker 2>think he was having difficulty hearing me. Go ahead, bring

506
00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:42.759
<v Speaker 2>him up, Okay, Jim, I want to ask you a question.

507
00:28:43.519 --> 00:28:47.200
<v Speaker 2>We lost him, we lost him, talk to me, guys said,

508
00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:49.200
<v Speaker 2>show you there tonight. Talked to me. Did you lose

509
00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:52.640
<v Speaker 2>him here? Yeah? Good, Jim. I'm trying to ask you

510
00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:56.559
<v Speaker 2>a question. The question that I asked you is did

511
00:28:56.599 --> 00:29:01.880
<v Speaker 2>you ever get any additional sensation from the bartender or

512
00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:03.920
<v Speaker 2>the owner or you just would you know? Doing your

513
00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:04.880
<v Speaker 2>job as it were?

514
00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:08.920
<v Speaker 5>I did my job to the best of my Adose, No,

515
00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:12.200
<v Speaker 5>I know that I'm gonna ask you that quit. Do

516
00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:15.240
<v Speaker 5>you all know it? Called me like two months later

517
00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:17.640
<v Speaker 5>and said, will you come back to guys?

518
00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:22.000
<v Speaker 2>He's not interesting conversation. Take it down. Thanks very much, Jim.

519
00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:25.279
<v Speaker 2>I appreciate your experience. It was fascinating. We're going to

520
00:29:25.319 --> 00:29:27.559
<v Speaker 2>take a break. Six one, seven, two, five, four ten

521
00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:32.720
<v Speaker 2>thirty six six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. Folks,

522
00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:35.359
<v Speaker 2>if you want to call in, I certainly will let

523
00:29:35.400 --> 00:29:37.759
<v Speaker 2>you tell you a story, no problem, But at some

524
00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:40.119
<v Speaker 2>point I probably want to engage you in a question,

525
00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:43.119
<v Speaker 2>in a conversation, and if you're having difficulty hearing me,

526
00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:45.440
<v Speaker 2>it doesn't make what we call great Radio. We'll be

527
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:46.920
<v Speaker 2>right back on next night after this.

528
00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:51.079
<v Speaker 1>Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the Window World,

529
00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:54.319
<v Speaker 1>Nice Side Studios on w b Z News Radio.

530
00:29:54.759 --> 00:29:56.880
<v Speaker 2>Let's go next to Joe and Hebril. Hey Joe, welcome

531
00:29:56.880 --> 00:30:01.559
<v Speaker 2>you next on nights. I go right ahead. Okay, I

532
00:30:01.559 --> 00:30:04.119
<v Speaker 2>think Joe's not ready, so let's put Joe on hold. Gentlemen,

533
00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:06.839
<v Speaker 2>thank you very much, and we'll move on to Alan

534
00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:10.000
<v Speaker 2>in Framingham. Alan in framing him. How are you Alan?

535
00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:13.880
<v Speaker 6>I'm good, Dan, how are you boy?

536
00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:16.279
<v Speaker 2>That's great you're there, and I'm sure the guys told

537
00:30:16.359 --> 00:30:18.400
<v Speaker 2>you to keep the radio down, so you were all

538
00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:20.359
<v Speaker 2>set and you're on the air. What would you like

539
00:30:20.440 --> 00:30:22.240
<v Speaker 2>to say or what question would you like to ask

540
00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:25.519
<v Speaker 2>of my guest, Steve Clark of the mass Restaurant Association,

541
00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:26.160
<v Speaker 2>Go right ahead.

542
00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:33.720
<v Speaker 6>So my comment is that the restaurant industry is one

543
00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:37.559
<v Speaker 6>of the few industries where you can start off as

544
00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:41.079
<v Speaker 6>a minimum wage worker and work your way up and

545
00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:45.160
<v Speaker 6>you know, become a manager or become a supervisor, become

546
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:48.240
<v Speaker 6>a district person, become an office person. There's a lot

547
00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:52.640
<v Speaker 6>of opportunity, and I think that that can so overlooked

548
00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:55.920
<v Speaker 6>in a lot of these conversations.

549
00:30:57.359 --> 00:31:01.480
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I think you're right. Are you involved in the business.

550
00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:05.880
<v Speaker 6>I am involved in the business. I started off as

551
00:31:05.880 --> 00:31:10.920
<v Speaker 6>a cook myself a long time ago, worked my way up,

552
00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:14.440
<v Speaker 6>became a manager, decided I wanted to make a switch

553
00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:18.240
<v Speaker 6>to administration, and I made the switch to administration, and

554
00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:21.319
<v Speaker 6>now I provide services to people in the industry.

555
00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:26.000
<v Speaker 4>One of the things that people go ahead, no.

556
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:27.480
<v Speaker 2>Go ahead, I didn't mean to drop go.

557
00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:30.319
<v Speaker 6>Ahead, Nope. One of the things I think people miss.

558
00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:33.920
<v Speaker 6>And this is kind of a different subject, but in

559
00:31:34.039 --> 00:31:38.400
<v Speaker 6>terms of the restaurant owner Steve mentioned earlier, restaurant owners

560
00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:41.599
<v Speaker 6>have very small margins, unlike high tech and things like

561
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:44.079
<v Speaker 6>that that have a very high margin. But in the

562
00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:48.920
<v Speaker 6>restaurant industry Steve mentioned it earlier. Most people now use

563
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:51.599
<v Speaker 6>a credit card to pay their bill. So if the

564
00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:54.039
<v Speaker 6>bill is one hundred dollars and someone leaves a twenty

565
00:31:54.119 --> 00:31:57.559
<v Speaker 6>or twenty five dollar tip, the restaurant owner is now

566
00:31:57.759 --> 00:32:02.319
<v Speaker 6>paying the credit card see on those tips. But they

567
00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:06.119
<v Speaker 6>don't recoup those fees. They can't recoup those fees, so

568
00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:07.839
<v Speaker 6>it's just another added expense.

569
00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:10.640
<v Speaker 2>Yep, that's true. Being that's a little inside baseball. But

570
00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:13.000
<v Speaker 2>fiture I mean, I think the fees on credit cards

571
00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:14.039
<v Speaker 2>are what three four dollars?

572
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:19.519
<v Speaker 6>Uh, fees on credit card trages generally run around three percent.

573
00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:21.319
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So, I mean it's it's

574
00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:23.519
<v Speaker 2>significant on a bill that's a one hundred and twenty

575
00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:26.839
<v Speaker 2>five dollars, you're talking about four dollars and no, I agree.

576
00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:30.319
<v Speaker 2>That's an interesting, interesting perspective as well. Allan, I appreciate you,

577
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:31.920
<v Speaker 2>cal thank you very much. I got a whole bunch

578
00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:33.880
<v Speaker 2>of other folks like to try to accommodate as well.

579
00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:38.559
<v Speaker 2>Thanks so much for calling, and thanks for listening tonight's side.

580
00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:42.960
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna try joe In havebel go ahead, Steve, you

581
00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:44.480
<v Speaker 2>wanted to say something, sorry, go ahead.

582
00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:47.000
<v Speaker 3>So I just wanted to just add to one point

583
00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:49.680
<v Speaker 3>to what Alan was saying. Is very few industries in

584
00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:52.599
<v Speaker 3>America where you can start in the first job, at

585
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:55.319
<v Speaker 3>an anty level job and become the CEO. You know,

586
00:32:55.599 --> 00:32:58.160
<v Speaker 3>most places that doesn't have that three lattice. But that's

587
00:32:58.200 --> 00:33:01.200
<v Speaker 3>what makes the restaurant industry great. Most of our owners

588
00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:04.200
<v Speaker 3>started as cooks in dishwashes, et cetera. So I just

589
00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:05.559
<v Speaker 3>want to make a plug for the industry.

590
00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:07.799
<v Speaker 2>Sure, that's fine. That's fine. Let me go now to

591
00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:10.480
<v Speaker 2>Joe in Haveril and see if Joe is ready at

592
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:10.839
<v Speaker 2>this point.

593
00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:13.599
<v Speaker 4>Joe, No, yes, this is Joe.

594
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:18.839
<v Speaker 7>November eleven is Veteras Day. And I've been to many

595
00:33:18.920 --> 00:33:22.480
<v Speaker 7>restaurants through the years and we get a free meal,

596
00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:27.000
<v Speaker 7>but we don't have we don't leave a tip. What

597
00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:30.319
<v Speaker 7>happens then to the waitress says should does?

598
00:33:33.119 --> 00:33:33.319
<v Speaker 8>Yeah?

599
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:37.599
<v Speaker 3>So, you know, I've been the beneficiary of a complimentary

600
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:40.079
<v Speaker 3>meal a few times, and I always try to leave

601
00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:43.200
<v Speaker 3>a tip for the server because the owner themselves is

602
00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:45.920
<v Speaker 3>the one that's camping the meal, the server is not.

603
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:50.079
<v Speaker 3>So so the server is probably making the minimum wage

604
00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:52.240
<v Speaker 3>for that day because if there's no tips coming from

605
00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:55.440
<v Speaker 3>the consumers, then the owner is required to make them

606
00:33:55.559 --> 00:33:58.160
<v Speaker 3>minimum wage under the laws. So they're probably making fifty

607
00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:01.559
<v Speaker 3>dollars an hour as a way. But happy Veterance Day

608
00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:02.960
<v Speaker 3>and thank you for your service.

609
00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:08.880
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I appreciate that, Joe. Again, any anyone who has

610
00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:12.519
<v Speaker 2>a meal complimentary, they certainly should also take care of

611
00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:14.840
<v Speaker 2>the person who serves them. There's no doubt, no doubt

612
00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:16.199
<v Speaker 2>about that. Thanks, appreciate you.

613
00:34:16.679 --> 00:34:19.119
<v Speaker 7>Next time I next time I go to a restaurant

614
00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:22.599
<v Speaker 7>on Vevermin' Day. It's coming up in November eleventh.

615
00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:25.880
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it comes like that every year in November eleven.

616
00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:29.280
<v Speaker 2>It's like clockwork. Joe absolutely in the World War One.

617
00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:31.719
<v Speaker 2>Thanks Joe, appreciate your call. Let me go to Suzanne

618
00:34:31.719 --> 00:34:34.599
<v Speaker 2>and Newton. Susanne, next on, nice, I go ahead.

619
00:34:34.559 --> 00:34:38.960
<v Speaker 9>Hi, thank you for bringing this spolt question to buy attention,

620
00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:45.199
<v Speaker 9>because I will vote in person. But and I'm sure,

621
00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:48.840
<v Speaker 9>I mean, if I say it's a credit card, I

622
00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:52.199
<v Speaker 9>leave to chip in cash, you always.

623
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:56.960
<v Speaker 8>Ship at alvers around. If you said tavy of our service,

624
00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:06.039
<v Speaker 8>and I'm serious, is quite wide? Probably serious? Is the

625
00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:09.840
<v Speaker 8>waitress's kind of limited? But I'm so glad you brought

626
00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:10.880
<v Speaker 8>this ballance.

627
00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:13.159
<v Speaker 2>Well, I'm glad you gave a chance to think about

628
00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:15.159
<v Speaker 2>it now. So what you can do is go into

629
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:17.840
<v Speaker 2>the polls and make your decision. I think if you

630
00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:21.320
<v Speaker 2>listen to the arguments that Steve Clark, our guest tonight,

631
00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:23.320
<v Speaker 2>has made, I think that would probably convince me.

632
00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:27.280
<v Speaker 8>I'll vote in verses, and now I will vote to

633
00:35:27.599 --> 00:35:33.000
<v Speaker 8>give tips without cats to the waitress and writers.

634
00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:37.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's not what we're talking about. Thank you very much.

635
00:35:38.039 --> 00:35:40.599
<v Speaker 2>Susan appreciate your call. Let me go to Beatrice in

636
00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:43.039
<v Speaker 2>the Bridgewater Beaches, like to get you in here under

637
00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:43.920
<v Speaker 2>the wire, go right hand.

638
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:47.079
<v Speaker 10>Hi Dan, I just want to say that when I

639
00:35:47.199 --> 00:35:49.639
<v Speaker 10>use my credit card to pay for a meal, I

640
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:52.519
<v Speaker 10>always make sure that I have cash on me to

641
00:35:52.679 --> 00:35:56.480
<v Speaker 10>pay the tip because it's my understanding that the waitresses

642
00:35:56.519 --> 00:36:00.920
<v Speaker 10>don't get that tip until the credit card company, uh

643
00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:03.760
<v Speaker 10>you know, pay, so I always make sure that I

644
00:36:03.800 --> 00:36:04.679
<v Speaker 10>have cash.

645
00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:06.800
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, let me let me find Let let me just

646
00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:09.519
<v Speaker 2>find out if that's true, Steve. That surprises me what

647
00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:11.800
<v Speaker 2>Beatrice said, Is that true?

648
00:36:12.159 --> 00:36:12.280
<v Speaker 8>Uh?

649
00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:15.599
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so that it does pay sometimes well in some

650
00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:19.159
<v Speaker 3>restaurants or cast people out that night and they'll they'll

651
00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:21.360
<v Speaker 3>wait for the credit card payments to come in. Other

652
00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:23.960
<v Speaker 3>people have put all the tips in the payroll so

653
00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:25.679
<v Speaker 3>that the end of the week they get an actual

654
00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:29.280
<v Speaker 3>paycheck with all the tips calculated out. It really varies

655
00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:31.360
<v Speaker 3>across the industry, but you know, I do think I

656
00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:34.360
<v Speaker 3>think the servers love the credit card purchase and the

657
00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:36.320
<v Speaker 3>cash tip. I think that works out great for them.

658
00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:39.679
<v Speaker 3>But really it's customer preference of you know, whatever works.

659
00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:43.519
<v Speaker 3>But yes, there's sometimes a lag on tips, but that's

660
00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:45.000
<v Speaker 3>because it gets put into a paycheck.

661
00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:49.159
<v Speaker 2>That's that's an interesting point you raised, Beatrice, and that

662
00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:52.519
<v Speaker 2>might make me. I tend to, you know, at a restaurant.

663
00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:54.960
<v Speaker 2>If it's you know, over you know, twenty five, If

664
00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:58.280
<v Speaker 2>it's under thirty bucks, I'm paying cash with the tip.

665
00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:01.000
<v Speaker 2>If it's over you know, fifty dollars or something, I'm

666
00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:03.320
<v Speaker 2>probably putting it on the credit card. And now maybe

667
00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:05.679
<v Speaker 2>what I think I will do is follow your advice, Beats,

668
00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:09.079
<v Speaker 2>and have some tens and twenties in my pocket so

669
00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:12.320
<v Speaker 2>that I can leave a good, healthy, at least minimum

670
00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:15.679
<v Speaker 2>twenty percent tip in cash, so the waitress or the

671
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:18.360
<v Speaker 2>waiter is able to take the money at home that

672
00:37:18.519 --> 00:37:20.840
<v Speaker 2>night and put it in their piggy bank. Okay, that's

673
00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:21.519
<v Speaker 2>a great suggestion.

674
00:37:21.559 --> 00:37:24.159
<v Speaker 10>Only that, but they don't have to pay taxes on it,

675
00:37:24.199 --> 00:37:26.440
<v Speaker 10>where if they get a tech for it, they would

676
00:37:26.480 --> 00:37:27.440
<v Speaker 10>have to pay taxes.

677
00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:30.639
<v Speaker 2>Yep, that's that's another factor. I agree with you. I

678
00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:32.079
<v Speaker 2>agree with you on that as well.

679
00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:36.079
<v Speaker 3>And I know, listening.

680
00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:40.079
<v Speaker 2>Well, I can't imagine that any waiter a waitress would

681
00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:42.679
<v Speaker 2>not declare all of their cash tips as well.

682
00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:46.400
<v Speaker 10>I mean, oh yeah, right, I was a wait That's

683
00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:49.519
<v Speaker 10>what we all recommend I went to Maine recently and

684
00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:51.519
<v Speaker 10>the bill was ninety five dollars and I put it

685
00:37:51.559 --> 00:37:54.400
<v Speaker 10>on my credit CAD, but I had money for the

686
00:37:54.440 --> 00:37:57.079
<v Speaker 10>tip in cash. I don't like to make them wait.

687
00:37:57.639 --> 00:37:59.679
<v Speaker 2>Good for you, Good for you. That's a great suggestion,

688
00:37:59.800 --> 00:38:01.800
<v Speaker 2>be just that was one of the better calls this hour.

689
00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:02.800
<v Speaker 2>Thank you very much.

690
00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:06.320
<v Speaker 10>Okay, thank you, thanks Uh.

691
00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:08.480
<v Speaker 2>Steve, Steve Clark, thank you very much. By the way,

692
00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:11.880
<v Speaker 2>where can folks if they haven't been convinced by this hour?

693
00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:13.239
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what you're going to be able to

694
00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:18.679
<v Speaker 2>do to convince them. This was this was almost a

695
00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:21.639
<v Speaker 2>forfeit by the other side, but we'll leave that for

696
00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:24.599
<v Speaker 2>other considerations. Uh, is there a website people and get

697
00:38:24.599 --> 00:38:27.159
<v Speaker 2>more information if they still need a little more information

698
00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:29.280
<v Speaker 2>before they decide how they're.

699
00:38:28.679 --> 00:38:31.960
<v Speaker 3>Gonna Yeah, absolutely, protect tips dot org is the full

700
00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:35.880
<v Speaker 3>campaign website. And of course our website is math the

701
00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:38.960
<v Speaker 3>Mass rest dot org. So we are the Mass Restaurant

702
00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:42.519
<v Speaker 3>Association and uh, we're just excited to be on today.

703
00:38:42.519 --> 00:38:45.199
<v Speaker 3>We're excited to get to election day and hopefully put

704
00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:47.880
<v Speaker 3>this question behind us and send this idea back to California.

705
00:38:48.280 --> 00:38:50.519
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there's a lot of cooky ideas come out of California,

706
00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:53.400
<v Speaker 2>there's no Unfortunately, a lot of them get adopted by

707
00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:55.760
<v Speaker 2>the other states. Thank you so much, Steve. I appreciate

708
00:38:55.800 --> 00:38:57.480
<v Speaker 2>it very much. We'll talk soon, okay.

709
00:38:57.239 --> 00:38:57.960
<v Speaker 3>And thank you very much.

710
00:38:58.000 --> 00:38:58.719
<v Speaker 4>I enjoyed it.

711
00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:03.000
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely Right now, interesting hour coming up. We're going to

712
00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:06.840
<v Speaker 2>talk about something called glossophobia, the fear of public speaking,

713
00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:09.320
<v Speaker 2>and how to get over it. Back on Nightside, right

714
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:10.559
<v Speaker 2>after the ten o'clock news,