Waiters (to include females) are so accustomed to receiving tips that if they are cut off, the quality of their service likely will suffer, even to the extent of sabotage of food, despite receiving more in wages than many of their customers.
I guess so...they’ll have to learn to live a new lifestyle. A ‘living wage’ lifestyle.
No, they’ll quit.
When I was young I made incredible tips working as a waitress at a hotel in NYC - the Hilton. It wasn’t for me (too small, too thin to hoist those plates!) but I brought home 200-300 dollars at night and this was the 1980s.
The waiters hate this minimum wage or living wage crap.
I stopped dining out with my family because the service sucks.
I can’t go to a restaurant with my kids and expect the food to arrive warm, or the server to be anywhere in sight after it has been. The only exception to this is the Olive Garden.