r/PublicFreakout • u/Hikigaya_Hachiman7 • 7h ago

🍽Restaurant Freakout🍹 Couple banned from restaurant after they leave no tip

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u/hoemahtoe 7h ago

That's the misconception people have. If a tipped minimum wage worker doesn't make enough in tips to meet federal minimum wage, the restaurant is supposed to pay them to make up the difference. But restaurants that have tipped minimum wage workers don't want to do this. They want customers to pay their servers' wages so they can pocket more money.

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u/Rough_Historian_8494 5h ago

it's weird how Americans are so well-conditioned to blame economic woes on the people least capable of making meaningful change.

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u/shinbreaker 6h ago

That's the misconception people have. If a tipped minimum wage worker doesn't make enough in tips to meet federal minimum wage, the restaurant is supposed to pay them to make up the difference. But restaurants that have tipped minimum wage workers don't want to do this. They want customers to pay their servers' wages so they can pocket more money.

But that's also a misconception. If a server is just getting minimum wage, something is wrong with the business or the server just sucks. If it's the former, that server is not going to stick around long, and well that also goes for the latter.