Soc. 101 This article “Making $2.13 an Hour and the Boss Skims Tips? How We Can Fight Exploitation in Restaurants”, Erik Loomis talks about how restaurant managers and corporate take advantage of their employees through tips. The way they do this is by paying their employees a wage based mostly on tips instead of regular living wage. This wage is a noticeable difference from a living wage because most of their income is based on tips, rather than pay checks. What the corporate does is take these tips or percentage of these tips to earn more money while still saving money by paying their employees less. According to the article it’s not hard for management to do this to their employees because some of these employees don’t have proper work documentation so it makes it that much easier for them to be taking advantage of. Other reasons that make some of these people easy to victimize is that the employees are either ignorant to the law or they just do not know what to do to enforce it. Although the article states that employees are being taken advantage of, some people making a good amount of money through tips. One way to solve this problem is to eliminate tips altogether. A place in Austin, Texas called the Black Star Co-op does not allow it employees to accept tips. Instead they are only paid hourly wages with benefits. One employee at the Black Star called it “workplace democracy”. Some employees are also capable of earning more through tips according to Dana Curtis, but she also said that this “democracy” gives you a “sense of agency with your job”. The reason I chose to write about this is because I personally used to work in a job where we had tips and the management took advantage of that and every day after closing we would have only two employees closing. It would be my co-worker and I; we would put all the tips together and split them in three, for