Just abolish the minimum wage for tipped employees and make them pay the normal minimum wage too
What is a ‘bar’? What is a ‘restaurant’? I seem to remember something like that but haven’t been inside one for years. I cannot afford it.
tipped workers are allowed to be paid a base wage of $2.65 provided their tips take them over the minimum. If they do not, their employer is required to make up the difference.”
...Good Lord! Penalize the employer because business is bad?! Or because the server isn’t so courteous or prompt?
“...provided their tips take them over the minimum. If they do not, their employer is required to make up the difference”
What in the world could prevent them from under-reporting?
A planned and regulated economy. It’s more fun.
D.C. crowd doesn’t care about cost....
Their restaurant tab is on the taxpayer....
Get rid of tipping. Give them 7.25 an hour and see how happy they are. In Europe and Asia they don’t tip and actually it is better and the long run it is cheaper for the dinners.
I know many here blow their top at any mention of a minimum wage but i have pretty legit question. I have certainly become a more critical reader than in the past.
“According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average pay of tipped workers is about $10 per hour nationally and $9.50 in Michigan. The National Restaurant Association says this amount “greatly underestimates” the actual earnings of servers, which their survey data shows to be $16 per hour for entry-level workers to $22 per hour for experienced servers.”
How many hours do they make those averages? Is it just the dinner crew for an average of 3 hours a weeknight? Do they make 40-50 an hour in peak and far less other hours? Hard to trust anyone because anyone can make any number look different than it is.
“We might have less employees or reduce the hours they work [to] a part-time schedule.”
It is now cheaper to buy clothes than to make them. And the cost of a meal at a restaurant is not competitive with making your own meal, but it is close enough for people to make the choice on a fairly regular basis. If the cost of wages goes up 280%, what impact will that have on restaurants and bars? It is already pretty much their highest expense.
Imagine if it only doubled the price of a meal. Would you still eat regularly at your favorite lunch place if the price went from $7.99 to $15.99?
I strongly believe this minimum wage push is to force price inflation to help the country monetize the debt.
All one has to do is just cut in to the profits of the greedy evil business owner. I read that on a liberal blog.
Liberals will destroy every industry in the US, it seems. More justification for feeding politicians to alligators when the revolution finally comes.