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Originally Posted by Number 10 GI
If a server would be making $15 an hour I'm not going to tip on top of what the steak would cost due to higher labor costs. I seriously doubt service would improve to any noticeable degree. Their reply to being criticized for poor service would be "what do you expect for minimum wage?"
Raising the minimum wage to $15 will result in the cost of goods and services going up and people now working for $15 would want a raise because apparently their services are worth more than minimum wage. In a few years the $15 will be just like the $8 + being paid now. Doesn't take a lot of rocket science to figure that out.
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Finding servers and bartenders who can earn tips is not nearly as big a problem as finding workers who only earn an hourly wage. Cooks and dishwashers slave in hot kitchens and typically work much harder than servers and don’t get tips. These are the people actually making your food, and at the end of their shift they have to watch the servers and bartenders sit down and count their piles of tip money, while wearing their grease and sweat filled kitchen clothes.