BecUse customers will pay either may. Either tips or higher prices for the food.

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Jan 19, 2018
9:32:54pm

Turnpike Lane Monday Morning Quarterback

Don’t expect the restaurants to keep prices down either.

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Originally posted on Jan 19, 2018 at 9:32:54pm

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Turnpike Lane

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We should increase the minimum wage for servers

Claire Standish

1/19/18 9:21pm

Tipping standard should be 0%. Pay your employees.

LaVellIfIKnow

1/19/18 9:22pm

Why not pay the servers a decent wage, instead of subsidizing wages directly to

rtNelson

1/19/18 9:23pm

BecUse customers will pay either may. Either tips or higher prices for the food.

Turnpike Lane

1/19/18 9:32pm

The unintended consequence is that you'll get worse service

Adrielle

1/19/18 9:40pm

Change it to minimum wage and there will be nothing but kiosks to order from. Restaurants barely make it as is.

sgriff

1/19/18 9:25pm

That wouldn't be much different than now. It more

kotacoug

1/19/18 9:32pm

Exactly. Servers aren’t far away from being replaced as is they shouldn’t be demanding higher base pay.

sgriff

1/19/18 9:34pm

have to assume that a chunk of their money is unrecorded cash tips... but I agree, they should make more.

HarlemCoug

1/19/18 9:29pm

Not anymore.... Especially since Peele do often pay by credit card, and those topics are often reported as income.

Adrielle

1/19/18 9:42pm

Restaurants report tips as wages or page huge fines.

VegasCoug

1/20/18 7:54am

waiters don't tell their bosses about all of the cash tips they got that night.

HarlemCoug

1/20/18 10:33am

Yep, how do restaurants get away with this? Only paying their employees $2.15

akmewg

1/19/18 9:33pm

If their tips don’t bring them to at least minimum wage the restaurant has to make up the difference. No one walks out

sgriff

1/19/18 9:35pm

Right I get that but usually tips cover this and restaurants only pay the $2 or

akmewg

1/19/18 9:48pm

I do agree with this.

Sandstone Cougar

1/19/18 9:46pm

Or we should pay people what they’re worth and abolish tipping entirely

SuperTank

1/19/18 9:36pm

They do have the same minimum wage as everyone else.

Radioactive Coug

1/19/18 9:36pm

Well sure. If she is hot

TNT

1/19/18 9:44pm

If people don’t like the wage, they should not be servers

Sandstone Cougar

1/19/18 9:45pm

Find a different job. People work as front line food service because they make

TaiJuan

1/19/18 9:46pm

I tip 20% No more, no less. Unless you give me free treats.

Sandstone Cougar

1/19/18 9:48pm

You can change the culture and while I tip 20% it's ridiculous. People don't

TaiJuan

1/19/18 9:53pm

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Sandstone Cougar

1/19/18 10:12pm

So pay then more AND tip better? Sounds fun

fattycoug

1/19/18 10:00pm

Millions of millenials will have hundreds of thousands in student loan debt

AZ Coug

1/19/18 10:13pm

RE: We should increase the minimum wage for servers

Countcougula

1/19/18 10:28pm

The servers generally get a lot more money than the staff in back.

bluesloth

1/19/18 10:50pm

Go ahead and start your own restaurant and pay them a higher wage. If it’s a

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