If you are in South Florida and you are in the mood for ice cream, a recommendation:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-02-12/business/fl-jaxsons-living-wage-20140212_1_federal-minimum-jaxson-minimum-wage


On its own, Jaxson's vows to pay higher wages

February 12, 2014
By Marcia Heroux Pounds, Sun Sentinel


The folks at South Florida's fabled Jaxson's Ice Cream Parlour want to serve up some politics with that scoop of ice cream.

Calling it a "moment of introspection," the owners of the Dania Beach ice cream darling are raising the minimum wage of its employees to $10.10, the bump proposed by President Obama last month in his State of the Union address.

The pay raise, which mostly will affect busboys and weekend workers, starts Feb. 24, the day longtime owner Monroe Udell turns 86 years old.

"We were thinking, 'What would it be like to try and live on $8 an hour?' '' Jaxson's general manager Jerry Smith, who has managed the store for 15 years, said of the restaurant's typical starting wage. "We are witnesses to their daily struggles."
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Not to mention, they have pretty damn good ice cream too. I can speak from experience.

[RKP5637]

1. Now, I am really hungry for ice cream!!!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. From the same article, it sounds like the founder Monroe Udall is a pretty cool guy:

From the article:

Smith said community and employee support has been Udell's philosophy in operating the store all these years. For example, the first employee Udell hired back in the '50s was a black woman, even though he was advised against doing so when he given a business license, Smith said.

"He was instructed very clearly because he had only one restroom," Smith said with disbelief.

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3. Will do

Definitely a stop in the next time I am in Dania.

It's for a good cause, right?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Absolutely. nt