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So what, it raises the waiter minimum wage from $2.50 an hour to $7.25 an hour? When the average waiter is making / expecting $10-$50+ an hour, it's still the
by brianwawok 7y ago
So what, it raises the waiter minimum wage from $2.50 an hour to $7.25 an hour? When the average waiter is making / expecting $10-$50+ an hour, it's still the situation OP describes where tips make up the vast majority of their pay. There are restaurants that do the higher prices no tips thing, but I am not aware of any states where you can show up at a random restaurant and get paid $30 an hour to wait tables?
- Sohcahtoa82 7y agoMinimum wage in Oregon is $11.25/hr with no special considerations for wait staff. Tips are always on top of the hourly wage and do not subsidize the wage paid by the restaurant.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 7y agoHaving never been to Oregon: the interesting follow up here is, are you as a customer less incentivized to tip with this knowledge? As a Texas resident who has worked in food service in the past, 20% is near obligatory barring subpar service (Texas is one of the states that pays $2.15 an hour for waitstaff).
- Sohcahtoa82 7y agoNope. 15-20% is still pretty standard. Also, in my experience, our prices are not higher than the $2.15/hr states.
- lonelappde 7y agoSocial inertia is shockingly powerful. Servers make a lot while bussers and janitors and cooks get screwed