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Posted by: Delta Twilight
Posted by: Old Papa Rich
Posted by: Delta Twilight
If everyone stops tipping them, they'll have to pay the waiters and waitresses more money.Yes they will. they already do. If a server does not make enough money to get them to minimum wage, then the restaurant has to pay the rest. Now if tipping simply ceased, then yes wages would go up. And then so would the cost of the meal. Restaurants do not have large margins. It's very slim, in the range of 2% to 10% on average.
Well if the price of the meal goes up I'll probably just end up budgeting more and getting cheaper items.
Or here is another option, cut the pay of the cooks.
Restaurants WILL do that, before they divorced, my brother-in-law was the head chef at a restaurant, and when a waiter/waitress didn't get enough tips to cover minimum wage, the owner took what it takes to make it up out of the chefs' wages.