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'The final straw': Pandemic pushes restaurant workers over the edge Eli Rosenberg, The Washington Post May 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3Jim Conway, 64, retired last year after almost 40 in restaurants, most recently in Olive Garden, outside of Pittsburgh.Photo for The Washington Post by Jeff SwensenShow MoreShow Less 2of3Jim Conway retired from the restaurant industry because of tips no longer being a reliable source of income and lingering health concerns about covid-19.Photo for The Washington Post by Jeff SwensenShow MoreShow Less 3of3 Jim Conway started working in rest...

Business owners have politicians scrambling to fix a so-called ‘worker shortage’ plaguing restaurants and other low-wage industries. But workers in these fields tell a different story.

’The final straw’: Pandemic pushes restaurant workers over the edge By The Washington Post Share Jim Conway started working in restaurants in 1982, making $2.13 (about R30) an hour, plus tips. And though the world has changed significantly in the nearly 40 years since then, his hourly wage has not. At the Olive Garden outside of Pittsburgh where he worked when the pandemic hit last year, he was making $2.83 an hour, the minimum wage for tipped workers in Pennsylvania, plus tips. So after being furloughed for months last spring, Conway, 64, decided to retire. Being paid the rough equ...