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Old 07-10-2012, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Mickedamouse24 View Post
For the life of me, I do not understand how any food business can get away with not paying their waiter/waitresses at least minimum wage! If they expect their customers to subsidize their help, then maybe they need to lower the absorbent prices on their meals!!!
They have to be able to demonstrate that the server is making at least minimum wage with salary and tips combined. I don't think that's a problem for most servers.

By having this kind of system servers are able to make a lot more money. If they got paid minimum wage, the cost of the meal would increase and people wouldn't tip as much. I lived in country where there is no tipping and servers get minimum wage and they pretty much make minimum wage. Almost no one tips except for Americans who are so used to tipping that we feel guilty if we don't.
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