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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
Why should you expect substandard service if you don't tip? It doesn't work that way in other businesses. Everyone should get at least the standard service.
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Because other businesses pay the current state minimum wage, which is $11/hour. Restaurant owners are only required to pay their tipped employees $7.98/hour minimum, and the tips are counted toward the $11/hour state minimum. If their tips don't combine with the $7.98 to make that $11/hour, then the restaurant has to kick in the difference - resulting in tipped wait staff earning as little as $11/hour - state minimum - even if they're getting tips from customers.
I would never work for tips as someone's employee, if those tips weren't on TOP of minimum wage. Customers don't owe me my day's wages, that's the restaurant owner's responsibility. If he can't afford to pay a waiter $11/hour, allowing the waiters to not count tips toward their hourly minimum wage, then he can't afford to have waiters.
Even when I was busking in Boston exclusively for tips, I earned more than minimum wage.