Just to point to this because it really resonated
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To say literally anyone can be a hostess is simply an exaggeration. A good hostess needs to be presentable, friendly, have good customer service skills and most importantly needs to show up to work. Since most restaurants require a hostess or hostesses for their business to succeed, they play an important role in that business' success and you can bet that having the first person a customer deals with at your business being competent at their job will impact your business in a positive way. Especially in the service industry.
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None of those are high skills demands they are expectations in every single job out there, so probably 75 to 80% of people could do that job with a day or two of training.
Not to sluff off on hostesses or even waiters, but frankly someone with a grade 10 education is pretty capable of doing those jobs.
Besides the fact that beyond minimum wage these people are making a lot of money on tips and shared tips.
A minimum wage job like hostessing or waitress probably isn't the best example of why minimum wage needs to be boosted because frankly these are jobs designed for more casual workers or student workers.
If you want to argue about a person swinging a shovel on a construction or road job for minimum wage those are more ment to be transitional or temporary positions or as needed positions, but I can tell you that the people that go in and make themselves valuable usually find themselves making more money, making more overtime and getting on site training as those companies want to keep those guys.
Those labor positions with site cleanup and digging holes or whatever are more designed to weed out the people that don't have it to continue to work in those trades.