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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a 20% tipper
Too but will definitely stop once this goes into effect. The idiots who voted for this have no idea the negative impact this will have. Locally owned businesses will stop opening and we will truly be nothing but chains.  Activist are some of the dumbest people in this town. As for servers complaining they work at a dive bar and do t make much money?? Be better, educated or move onto to a more high end restaurant.[/quote]

Activists may be dumb as you claim but you’re right up there with them despite thinking highly of yourself . How many effing restaurants fall in the high end category ? Better yet , how often do you dine at a $100/ plate restaurant ? Hypocrite [/quote]

My husband and kid eat out at least twice a week where we spend a minimum of $60-$75.   The waiters typically have at least theee or four tables so at 15-20% tips they are doing ok.  You guys act like it’s a life sentence to wait tables.  Most people don’t do it for life.  I never made a “living wage” putting myself through college.  And have worked as both a hostess and waitress.  I hated it and still know that prop 77 is bad for the city.  And I actually work in development and real estate now so I have some sense of how urban economics work.[/quote]

Urban economics lol. You don’t seem to have much in the way of intellectual depth , put  this in that smug , self-satisfied haughty head of yours . The crappy anecdote that you shared is just that an anecdote, I know you’re white ( deny it all you want ) but your unsurprising need to make it about you is telling .  You have no proof that the waiter is making a guaranteed 20% on those tables and stupidly enough you talk about your experience as if it’s the norm . It’s about you isn’t it ?
   
            Furthermore $60-75 still doesn’t fall into the high end category which I alluded when someone mentioned that servers who complain about working in dive bars should seek jobs elsewhere . I worked in restaurants too , bus boy , bar back, waiter and unlike you I always thought the tipping system was exploitative and somewhat humiliating . Servers are employees and they should paid as such, if that result in some restaurants with shaky concepts going under , so be it . [/quote]

So they should try to move on or move up. Have we decided that people have no self agency anymore?[/quote]

Worry about your life , you’re painfully dense good God. Servers are employees just like any other and as such they should be paid the prevailing wage . We can’t have a minimum wage set to be at $15 for everybody else while a segment of the labor force gets $3.33/hr because we’ve abandoned them to the whims of twats like you all in the name of ‘tipping’. Some of us have every intention to keep tipping when and if appropriate .[/quote]

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