My wife just paid $13.99 for an All American Slam at a Denny's on the east side of the Bay Area. Maybe they're paying $20/hr for busboys?
In the Bay area? Even if that's full time, that's $40,000 a year. Hard to make ends meet when rent takes up 60% of that...... I'm dreading the day we lose our neighbor's kids to move pipe in the summer. No idea where the replacements will come from, outside of Mexico.
