No, dear, $10 an hour and no health insurance is despresso. i make $11/hour, no health insurance, nothing. (that's in canuck dollars too!) i've always noticed that the restaurant industry is one of the last bastions of draconian labour relations...dickens would have a field day. ^^^ Yep. My hubby is saddled with the title chef and for that he gets a whopping $13 CDN / hour, no benefits, no real control of his kitchen (1 of the owners is also a chef ... ) and 100% if the stress of being "chef". ... but that's okay, he runs a "Bourdain Style" pirate ship and the kitchen staff are fiercely loyal to him. Not the owners. … with a new job mid autumn .. it’s just H2O off the mallard now … Too bad this appears to be an industry where the standard is to have no standards.