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Originally Posted by PR_Tom
Said it before I'll say it again. I think it should be illegal for one industry to pay less base wage than state and federal minimums, on the expectation that the consumer will make up the difference. And that the taxes will all work out perfectly somehow (ona wing and a prayer).
In my world, the only thing that'd change is restaurants would have to pay the same mandated minimum wage as everyone else. Period. Tips would NOT be affected, they would be given freely as they are now. But hold restaurants to a legal base wage. If some restaurants fail because of it, then frankly thats tough bananas. This would also make nonsense like "mandatory tip" obsolete (it's an oxymoron anyway).
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Actually, this does exist already. It's known as 'amount-to-meet guarantee', which basically means that the restaurant can pay it's servers less than minimum wage, however if that servers pay plus actual tips do not equal at least minimum wage then the restaurant is required to pay the server the difference to "meet the amount' of the current minimum wage.
The policies of most restaurants is to force it's servers to report a specific % of sales, regardless of whether they actually made that amount in tips or not. This is where people who stiff servers actually screw over the server, because even if you don't tip, the server is going to be forced to say you did tip them and then pay for it out of their own pocket.