Many restaurants keep a portion of a server’s tips. Most pay an obscenely low hourly wage, assuming tips will.make up the difference. They are exempt from minimum wage laws. I don’t think tips are any of the restaurant manager’s business! I am tipping the server, not subsidizing the manager’s payroll costs. If they feel they need more revenue, they should raise prices and let customers decide if it’s reasonable, not steal from their workers becausers because it’s easier.
The same argument applies to wages. Servers and other employees should be covered by the same minimum wage standards as everyone else , and that standard should be naional, pegged to the local cost of living. Many employers keep worker’s weekly hours artificially low just to skirt minimum wage laws.
Again, tips reward good service and are none of management’s business. Restaurant workers should be paid a living wage. That wage rate should also apply to part-time workers.Tipped workers should not have to rely on the uncertainty of tips to pay the rent and feed their kids!
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