Thankfully, it says this in the 4th paragraph, but it still feels misleading, as I was a California hourly worker 25 years ago and, as far as I remember, even t

Thankfully, it says this in the 4th paragraph, but it still feels misleading, as I was a California hourly worker 25 years ago and, as far as I remember, even then it was not legal to pay tipped workers less than the state minimum wage. So Los Angeles has had this law much longer as a larger city, but yes, that is due to state law, not a city law. But there is clearly not much point in passing a city law saying the same thing as a state law employers in your city already have to abide by. If anything, doing it this way seems too easy to circumvent by attempting to put your site in the suburbs or doing shit like carving out Beverly Hills as its own city.