Hollywood Actresses Call For Tipping Ban To Fight Sexual Harassment… Waitresses Tell Them To STFU

The #MeToo crowd is sticking their fingers in anything they can, so last week a group of 16 actresses, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Jane Fonda, Natalie Portman, Lily Tomlin, Amy Poehler, Reese Witherspoon, Brie Larson, Debra Messing, Ashley Judd and Sarah Silverman sent New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo a letter urging him to ban tipping for New York restaurant workers.

It read: “Relying on tips creates a more permissive work environment where customers feel entitled to abuse women in exchange for ‘service.'”

They called for a higher minimum wage instead.

I personally know a few New York waiters and bartenders.

BELIEVE ME. No “higher minimum wage” will replace the tips they’re making. Some of them EASILY rake in upwards of a grand on a good night.

I didn’t see them liking this AT ALL… and I was right.

HUNDREDS of restaurant professionals fired back with a letter of their own.

In short… STEP THE F**K OFF.

The letter reads:

To the celebrity women who recently criticized the full-service restaurant industry, from over 500 women and men who work in it: Thank you for your concern. But we don’t need your help, and we’re not asking to be saved.

You’ve been misled that we earn less than minimum wage, and that we’re somehow helpless victims of sexual harassment. These untruths are the product of the Restaurant Opportunities Center, which does not represent us or the thousands of our colleagues who stand with us. We don’t have the platform you have, so we’re forced to organize online to defend the tipping system against myths spread by its critics.

We get to offer our opinions on your movies; you get to offer opinions on the food we serve, and our service. What you don’t have the right to do is dictate how we are paid. Servers and bartenders have never been paid the ‘same’ as everyone else, and we are okay with that. We are paid based on our sales and service; we’re guaranteed minimum wage, and our tips let us earn much more than that. …

Bad behavior happens in every industry—Hollywood celebrities should know better than most that sexual harassment happens everywhere. The people who are pushing for this change in the restaurant industry are exploiting the isolated stories of people that have suffered injustices, and making it out to be the industry’s or the tipping system’s fault. That is just not true.

We’re servers and bartenders by choice, just like you chose to be actresses. The industry gives us flexibility, and the current tipping system gives us opportunity to earn great money with less-than full time hours.

We respect your profession, and now it’s time for you to respect ours.

I don’t respect their profession, actually. Hollywood actresses are basically high-paid clowns who for SOME REASON think they know better than the rest of America about what’s good for them.

Take a hint from this one, ladies. Butt the EFF out.