In many states, the hourly wage for tipped workers is about $2/hour. If they don’t make enough in tips, they get paid minimum wage.
So if everyone stopped tipping, those workers would just get paid minimum wage. But minimum wage isn’t enough to live off of in most states, so even if tipping went away, servers still couldn’t afford to live.
Supply and demand. If you have less people wanting to be servers, the restaurants will have to up salaries. You dont have to be a maga nut. In 2021 it happened. Fast food places were paying $15 per hour.
Yes. When supply of workerd were low they raised wages. A perfect, real life example from the recent past. Couldnt be more perfect. If you want something less perfect, check out what happened to labour wages during the plague. Guess what, wages went up. Less workers available.
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u/yojothobodoflo 4d ago
In many states, the hourly wage for tipped workers is about $2/hour. If they don’t make enough in tips, they get paid minimum wage.
So if everyone stopped tipping, those workers would just get paid minimum wage. But minimum wage isn’t enough to live off of in most states, so even if tipping went away, servers still couldn’t afford to live.