FDA Revamps Waitress Compensation Due to e-coli Poisoning
Regulators are proposing a change in how food servers in the United States are paid due to recent e coli poisoning at a local restaurant. E Coli (short for "Escherichia coli" ), can cause serious food poisoning in humans and the bacteria is responsible for occasional product recalls due to unsanitary conditions at Major Slaughterhouses around the country. Clearly though, it is the fault of the food server known as the "Waiter" or "Waitress".
Mr. Tommy Aikey awoke a few days ago with food poisoning after having a steak meal served by Wendy Knowfalt, a food server at "Steak and Ail". After Tommy Aikey reported the incident to local authorities, the legislators and regulators quickly got to work on a new bill that will prevent this type of food poisoning in the future. From the experts within the government, all indications show that clearly the waiter / waitress was totally at fault for the entire ordeal.
Here is a breakdown of the new regulation and the main components.
• Waiters / Waitresses will no longer be able to have their tips or other compensation based on the type of the meal they serve, the server’s experience level, or service levels to the customer. For example:
• A Waiter or Waitress may not be paid more for a steak dinner than a Shrimp or chicken dinner.
• A Waiter or Waitress must be paid the same regardless of whether the food comes out hot, warm, or cold or due to any delay in food preparation while the server was on break.
• When customers order their meal, they must be presented with a minimum of 3 different menus from competing restaurants in the area.
• The customer must wait 3 hours to order their meal after signing a disclosure showing what type of salad, starch and vegetable will be served with the meal. If the restaurant owner provides these "ancillary" items - he may not charge a higher margin on one item over the other.
• The waiter/waitress must be either paid by TIPS from the consumer, or by credit card - NOT by BOTH.***Note that for these purposes, both the Restaurant itself AND the Wait Staff are considered "Servers", thus - if the Credit card option is used to pay the cashier (owner of the restaurant), then NO TIPS may be accepted by the waitress.
• A "Server" may not "Steer" a consumer into a meal by a certain animal type if they will receive greater compensation from that meal, than in other meals which may have been offered the consumer... Unless the offered meal is in the consumers best interest (Safe Harbor).
***** NOTE: it is unclear within the proposed law how far this legal definition goes, and the FDA is offering NO CLARIFICATION. If the same steak dinner is available 2 blocks away, is it in the best interest to send the client to the competing restaurant?
• Serving Steak over Salmon in the best interest of the consumer's health. All questions that have severe penalties and will only be clarified during future inspections of the restaurant, by the Food Inspector.
• Lastly, in another unrelated law that is being considered called QRM, or Qualified Reluctant Meals- certain Restaurant owners should be aware that they may have to eat 5% of the consumers meal prior to serving.
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