Indeed.
That $15.00 an hour will reduce the incentive to tip.
We always knew that waitresses in fast food joints made very little money, and a tip for good service was a way to help them along.
Higher wages will mean higher prices, and the incentive to tip will be gone. Also the incentive to provide good service will be gone.
With poor service, high prices, and bad attitudes, the pleasure of eating out will be gone.
If it’s no longer a pleasure to eat out, why bother?
Brown-Bagging becomes the norm, for those who can find jobs, anyway.
For the rest, there will always be soup kitchens.
My husband ran a private club for years that had a restaurant attached to it. The waiters were unionized and while some of them were professional, others behaved in insane fashion - truly - especially the shop steward. They got a nice salary, great benefits, couldn’t be fired, didn’t receive tips and so had no incentive to behave professionally. What a nightmare!
Good reason to eat at home. Then I don’t have to worry how much salt is in the food or if they actually have something I can eat.
Eating out with digestive disorders is a nightmare in it’s self.
Don’t worry you middle class unsophisticated PEONS, foot in mouth biden says you are classless any way; wonder if he thinks he’s so high brow, just because he can ape the correct order to pick up the right fork at a State dinner?
I will stop tipping if the costs of my restaurant meal rises due to higher minimum wages. Period.
When someone takes a job where tipping is expected, not only do I realize that they have a true incentive to give good service, I pay attention to how well they serve, and I reward them accordingly. There will be a lack of incentive for me to do that if their wage represents full value for that job.
I guarantee that if other people behave as I know I will in this respect, restaurant servers will find their take has gone down.