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In reply to the discussion: $2.13 Minimum Wage - are you fucking kidding me [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)After the Republicans de-coupled the tipped minimum from the actual minimum wage at the behest of the restaurant industry, it's fallen (like wages overall) in terms of its effective value. That's probably part of why tipped workers are more likely to be in poverty and using social services to survive at a much higher rate.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/17/abolish-tipping_n_5991796.html
Beyond that, though, philosophically it just seems like garbage. Why in the world should random restaurant customers get to decide how much or how little (down to the egregiously low tipped minimum) a server should make?
We already know there is no shortage of horror stories of food service customers abusing servers, and using tipping practices to enact various kinds of petty revenge or simple skin-flintiness, after all.
http://kitchenette.jezebel.com/more-of-the-worlds-worst-restaurant-customers-part-2-1738471431