Your employees aren’t making less than $3.00/hour.
We pay starting servers $2.50/hr. Min for the state is $2.12. Our polished top servers get paid $5.00/hr. They take home around $65-85/hr with tips. Some will make $300-$400 per night on busiest days, so they’re not complaining.
If a restaurant can make a 10% profit margin, it’s doing way better that average. That’s why this new wage issue poses such a major need for reassessment of operational approach. If this new min-wage for servers takes hold, the losers in the long run will be both customers and employees. Not surprising for implementation of “progressive” ideas.