More states are considering requiring full minimum wages for tip earners this year
www.nbcnews.com
Only seven states currently bar “subminimum” pay for tipped workers like bartenders and restaurant servers, but activists see 2024 as ripe to expand the tally to as many as 20.
  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago
    1. Restaurants lobby US government to pay their staff less than minimum wage
    2. Restaurants tell customers if they want better service, they should tip their server
    3. Customers begrudgingly begin tipping their servers
    4. Sexually attractive female servers in their early 20s absolutely destroy, making people think there’s a scam at work (seriously, I’ve seen girls I’ve worked with go on back to back WEEKEND vacations to Cancun on their tips, and I live in Canada, but it’s not a scam, it’s just horny dudes simping for their server)
    5. People start to complain about tipping culture, seemingly blaming the server for just working a job and not the restaurant owner for paying their staff starvation wages (we are here right now)
    6. States mandate minimum wage for service industry staff
    7. Restaurant prices go up to pay for wages but tip culture begins to go away
    8. Servers are making less money so they go get easier jobs that pay the same (working in a restaurant can be fucking BRUTAL)
    9. Restaurants hire more and more Indian immigrants, while hard working, are indicative of an even larger societal problem
    10. Restaurant owners continue to make out like bandits, while customers and staff get shafted.