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> "Normal wages" for many restaurant workers in the U.S. exclude tips. Without tips, "normal wages" is below the minimum wage. Restaurants are required to bump

> "Normal wages" for many restaurant workers in the U.S. exclude tips. Without tips, "normal wages" is below the minimum wage. Restaurants are required to bump tipped employees up to the non-tipped minimum wage if the tips don't put them over it. Thus, "normal wages" in this case would be the non-tipped minimum wage.

beeforpork 7y ago
What a bizarre interpretation of 'minimum wage' and 'tip'! This means that the restaurant owner essentially collects (part of) the tips? So you could employ a restaurant worker at $0/h and then bump them to minimum wage, because the tips will never cut it? Basically, you'd be collecting all the tips? This cannot seriously be legal!?
- amalcon 7y ago
  There's a separate "tipped employee" minimum wage, which must be paid by the employer regardless of tip income. Last I'd checked, though, it was only about $2/hr.
- krallja 7y ago
  if (wages+tips) < minimum_wage then wages = minimum_wages end
amalcon 7y ago
They are "required to", but this is rarely enforced, so they very frequently don't actually do this.