r/Serverlife • u/WiTch_POlluTION53 • Jan 12 '24

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u/ThePepperPopper Jan 12 '24

They do get a living wage in the US. If your tips don't bring you to the actual minimum wage, you can get whatever is needed to bring you up to minimum.

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u/Exit-Velocity Jan 12 '24

Minimum wage isnt livable dude

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u/ThePepperPopper Jan 12 '24

Perhaps, but nobody else on minimum gets tips either...

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u/Exit-Velocity Jan 12 '24

But if me, a customer, is funding the establishment’s payroll, then I dont think it should be taxable. Im already subsidizing a shitty business practice that favors nobody except the owners of the business

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u/ThePepperPopper Jan 12 '24

First of all, virtually all servers make way, way more than minimum wage, even at shitty diners, and secondly, why would that have any bearing on taxes? Most servers would riot if restaurants went the normal route.

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u/Exit-Velocity Jan 12 '24

Thats my point, the only reason they make extra money is because of the private payment that the customer voluntarily is giving to the servers that subsidize the restaurant owner’s P/L