Nothing says, “We appreciate our $300 dollar a night guests!”,...
...like staff being paid minimum wages
I do tip $10 per night.
We do the same as long as the room is cleaned. We tip more at a beach location for the pain of cleaning up sand.
1) People are paid the market rate for the production that their labor brings to the corporation. That is unless they receive minimum wage. A minimum wage earner, by definition is paid above their value due to the fact that if an employer could do so legally, he would pay that person less, and in most instances that same employee would accept the lower wage as a tacit acknowledgment that their particular labor is not that valuable to the company.
2) Two people working full time minimum wage jobs with two children at home, live ABOVE the Federal Poverty level. By a lot. It isn't the minimum wage that is the problem, It is after all a starting wage and should be limited to the least employable, as it mostly is. It is the lack of full time jobs in the Obama economy that is killing the workers of America at all economic levels.
BTW two full time Minimum wage workers in a household gross $30,160 per year. The Federal poverty level for a household of 4 is $23,850. 126% more than poverty levels.
3) The minimum wage is the greatest barrier to entry for workers ever devised. It is anti democratic, anti liberty and is on its’ face unconstitutional. A person has the right to contract their labor at any rate they would desire and for any reason they would have to set that rate. It is not unbelievable that a person would even work for free in order to gain experience or show that they are suitable for the job.