Eat at Piggy's

One of the great things about Utah is you can treat your employees like crap. Especially if they are food servers! Then, you get to pay them half minimum wage. That said, I'd like to tip my Bastard's Hat to Iggy's of St George, Ut.

Not only do they take advantage of Utah's wonderful "fuck off" to anyone who makes tips, but they pull their servers off tables and make them do an hour or two of cleaning for that $2.15 an hour.

Genius!

My hat is tipping even further down for the week of July 1st to July 7th! Iggy's got caught serving booze to a couple of 19 year old girls as part of a police sting (sting and entrapment are different things...I wonder what all the speed dealers are doing while the cops are setting these wonderful operations up?) And, rather than pay a $2,000 fine, Iggy's decided to let their customers and the servers who rely on tips for a living know just how they care about them all; they opted to NOT pay their fine and simply not serve booze for a week.

Apparently, this is bad business for a Sportsbar! Many tables walk out the second they find out they aren't eating at a Sport's Bar this week; just a Sport's nothing. It's just like eating at Chili's or Applebee's when they have the game on (except, you can get a beer).

And what does Iggy's say to keep their servers happy? That this is slowest week of the year. Now, the Iggy's in question hasn't even been open for a year, so I assume they were allowing for the numbers from their stores in the urban cities in Northern Utah to predict the Southern Utah business.

Sheer fucking genius!

Personally I'm very curious and excited what business will go in the vacated Iggy's building. Hopefully, I'll find out very, very soon.