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In reply to the discussion: There are seven states with no restaurants [View all]bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)I went to a resturant and the waitress told me they paid her just over $3.00 per hour and she had to share her tips with the cooks. She said she could not make it. I said move to WA which was just across the border and she said she was going to. Coeur d'Alene is in the panhandle a few minutes from the border of WA and 30 miles to Spokane. But there was smaller towns just across the border that paid the minimum of over $9.00 an hour + tips. She was quitting to move. Idaho is very red state. Always has been for many years and is a right to work state. Which means literally you don't have a right to work and we can pay you slave labor wages. Benefits are none existant unless you live in Boise and are a Mormon. But that is another subject all together. Those Idaho potato's are no where to be found either because they are shipped elsewhere lol. Luckily I am a Californian through and through and now stranded in So. Oregon but hey 27 miles from the CA border. And Oregon does pay their staff at least minimum I believe.