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The minimum wage for servers is around $2 an hour. If we stop tipping, our servers won't make enough money to survive. Restaurants claim that they can't afford to pay a living wage and offer prices people are willing to pay. Yay capitalism.
The employer by law has to pay the regular minimum wage if the tips don’t make up the difference.
Does this actually happen though?
It's the law but due to how working for wage thieving losers works, it doesn't happen in practice.
Yeah I assumed as much. Thankfully my state doesn’t have a lower tipped minimum so this is not a concern for me. But I still tip because servers are still underpaid and I want them to be compensated fairly. Also the public is a pain in the ass so they deserve it for dealing with certain people.
I generally want people to be happy and I tip decently. As far as making under minimum, it’s set so low federally that someone would have to have no tables or be really bad to not make at least $8 an hour. I suppose it would be more likely in cities that have their own higher minimum like Denver ($18).
I doubt it because the “culture” is that you’re a horrible person if you don’t tip stupid amounts so people are shamed into it.
Can you give a cite for this? I don't think this happens everywhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Labor_Standards_Act_of_1938
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/faq
Thanks for those.
I don't think it is very common knowledge. I wonder how many people earning $2.xx / hr know this.
ok...
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped