The no tax on tips might change everything in the service business if the IRS will implement that rule. Restaurants sometimes pay below the minimum wage and count on the tip to compensate the difference. It’s all screwed up and in principle I’m not a fan of minimum wage either, but it exists. Anyway the whole idea is Too Insure Proper Service or something like that. It shouldn’t be automatic or expected. Either build it into the price, pay a wage that will retain good workers and attract repeat customers, or teach people to be nice to each other - both the customer and the server. I’ve had some very horrible days, but never took it out on a waitress. Usually I’ll tip more on a bad day trying to pay it forward or reverse my luck.
When I left the USA (1998), the MAXIMUM wage for waiters, and anyone in that business was 2.13/hour (Texas)..
They lived off of those wages. (Those positions were for uneducated young people) ... Many of those went to go on to get their GED.
Many of those were summer jobs for the high school students.
(I was a radio DJ (also had to get FCC license) for the small city as a job, starting when I was 8th grader.. and held that job until I graduated at 17yo.. Minimum wage, at the t9me, was $3.35).
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