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"  How do you judge a restaurant? Food? Service? D\u00E9cor? What about how the restaurant treats its employees? A new diners&amp;#039; guide from the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United rates restaurants on working conditions and employment practices - no taste buds involved. More from Delish: Esquire&amp;#039;s Best New Restaurants of 2011 According to NPR, the service workers advocacy group&amp;#039;s new guide rates restaurants in five categories: paid sick days given to employees, opportunities for advancement, sustainability, wages given to tipped employees, and wages given to non-tipped employees. The book includes ratings of 150 of the country&amp;#039;s highest-grossing restaurants, plus others. More from Delish: Best Restaurants for Solo Diners The advocacy group is working to raise wages for tipped restaurant workers. NPR reports that the average hourly wage for tipped employees is currently frozen at $2.13 an hour \u2014 the same since 1996. With tips, the median hourly income raises to $8.03 an hour. Non-tipped employees do not earn much more, with an average of $8.42 an hour. An employee supporting a family of three needs 58-cents more than that to survive at about the federal poverty line. The Restaurant Opportunities Center United gives high grades to those companies that pay at least $5 to employees who also receive tips and $9 an hour to those that go without tips. As Andy Shallal, a Washington D.C. restaurateur, told NPR, &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s time for cage-free employees.&amp;quot; More from Delish: The Best Single-Subject Restaurants Restaurant chains that have, for various reasons, received high grades in the book include Colors restaurants, In-N-Out Burger, and Hardee&amp;#039;s. National chains McDonald&amp;#039;s, Starbucks, and T.G.I. Friday&amp;#039;s earned zeros across the board. What do you think about grading restaurants on their employee practices? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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