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Pay your employees a living wage
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[โ€“] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

The thing is, lots of tipped workers also fight being paid a living wage because they make way more money off tips than they otherwise would at a job with similar qualifications. If a server is only working 6 tables in an hour and averages only 5 dollars a table in tips, that's $30 an hour. There's no way that if tips were eliminated that restaurants would bump salaries that much.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago

    They could still collect tips, nobody is stopping that. They would just have to be paid a normal minimum wage as well. There is no reason that restaurant owners should be given the only exception in paying a minimum wage. Why should they be the only industry that forces the customer to directly pay their wages?

    Maybe we should do that with cops, or politicians. They get $2 an hour, and then get tips FROM THE CITIZENS, when they do their jobs correctly, and the Citizens are moved to show their appreciation. I suspect we'd see cops and politicians behave much better.

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