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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because servers don't want it.

My brother is a professional bartender in DC who routinely makes tips that equal out $50-$60/hr. A slow night for him is leaving with only ~$250 in tips. He makes $600-$800 per night Thur-Sat.

[b]People aren't going to tip with a high hourly wage in place,[/b] and no one who has been in the service industry as a career is going to keep doing it for $17.95/hr.

Service industry workers and restaurant owners tried to tell TPTB that a higher minimum wage would not work for all establishments. For a McDonald's? Sure, but at Le Diplomate, Zaytinya, or The Hamilton, nope. They can't keep their skilled workers at that rate. [/quote]

That is simply false. People who eat out still tip 20%+. Read Tom Sietsema's WP chat. The anecdata is universal.

What happened was that restaurant owners got greedy and thought they could dupe the public into paying a ton of made-up fees. And so a lot of us stopped eating out.

[/quote] This is why we’ve cut back considerably on going out or only frequent small town restaurants. I’m not paying $20-30  for watered down drinks, $50-75 for bland entrees and $15-20 for uninspired desserts, then be expected to pay 10% tax and 30% gratuity on top of that??? [/quote]

I couldn’t agree more.   I only go to eat to places that serve food I cannot prepare at home and tastes good.  We usually patronize the same places and rarely explore new ones.  When I explore new ones I would check the menu beforehand to see if it’s worth going.  I don’t have money to pay for ambiance only, I can grab a homemade sandwich and go sit in a public park or waterfront bench and eat it for free and people watch.  Usually it’s ethnic food for me because plain stuff like steaks and fish (which are usually most expensive entrees at restaurants) is easy to prepare at home.  Unfortunately many ethnic food places are’t great either and loaded with bad ingredients that will make you feel the after-effects  :lol:  Once you find that ethnic food place that has great food that doesn’t make you feel terrible you just stick with it. [/quote]

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