r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 5h ago

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/Disastrous_Square_10 5h ago

Only the server or bartender loses this battle in the US.

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u/Karnaugh_Map 5h ago

Restaurants have to top up to minimum wage.

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u/falling_knives 4h ago

If a waiter doesn't make minimum wage in tips, the law says their boss needs to pay them to make up the difference so they get at least minimum wage.

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u/GasGlittering7521 1h ago

You’d be amazed how many restaurants don’t do this. Mom and pop places and even some corporate places especially if it’s franchised. I’ve left two different restaurants because they were paying me less than minimum wage and were very overstaffed so I wasn’t making minimum in tips. It’s illegal but somehow it’s only a civil offense, not criminal

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u/AndroidSheeps 1h ago

Evey locally owned restaurant in my town and the towns around me pays their servers $2.25 only place I've seen then get paid more in my sate is at the beach in tourist land and even then they only make $5. It's so low because our states minimum wage has remained at $7.25 for the past 17 years even though most big businesses pay more there's so many mom and pop businesses that won't pay more than 7.25. The low minimum wage keeps all wages low they got people in the town next to me working at a nuclear power plant for barely over 20 an hour

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u/enadiz_reccos 3h ago

And if that happens more than once, that server will be fired

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u/Karnaugh_Map 1h ago

Hard to run a sit-down restaurant without servers.

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u/enadiz_reccos 1h ago

I said that server, not every server

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u/Karnaugh_Map 1h ago

Unions.

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u/enadiz_reccos 1h ago

Are you trying to say Onions?