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.
I wasn’t even really talking about people who don’t tip. What if the people don’t ever come in? Then you wouldn’t get paid hardly at all if you only rely on tips. The owner of the restaurant has you there to clean and babysit their business in case a customer decides to show up and all you get is like $3 an hour for it because maybe you might get a tip if the customer is nice? That’s a shit deal. It’s not fair to restaurant employees. Also making them pay minimum wage doesn’t mean people won’t still tip. They totally will because the expectation is still there.
I wasn’t even really talking about people who don’t tip. What if the people don’t ever come in? Then you wouldn’t get paid hardly at all if you only rely on tips. The owner of the restaurant has you there to clean and babysit their business in case a customer decides to show up and all you get is like $3 an hour for it because maybe you might get a tip if the customer is nice? That’s a shit deal. It’s not fair to restaurant employees. Also making them pay minimum wage doesn’t mean people won’t still tip. They totally will because the expectation is still there.