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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tip what you like but remember you are bailing out the rich private equity firm that owns the restaurant - if his servers don't get tips, he will have to pay them more and that hurts his bottom line. Also, Howard Schultz - the owner of Starbucks - is notoriously cheap. He would not tip so neither should you. [/quote]
This! Restaurants have to make up any difference in tips so that  wait staff make at least minimum. My BIL owns a restaurant chain in NY state and they never have to make up the difference. His staff make a minimum of $22 an hour and usually much more. They budget 500k to “bridge the gap” but since it isn’t used, it goes back to the restaurant and he and the other owner take lavish vacations each year. People don’t know this is the law. You think a waiter will stick around making $4/hr completely dependent on tips? [/quote]

+1. In your BIL's case, the customers are paying him $500K over and above what they pay for their food!

Everytime there's a "survey" on whether or not restaurant peeps want the tipping method to continue, the "results" from the waitstaff and owners are generally in favor of tipping.  What else do you expect?  The waiters have no downside.  The restaurant owner has no downside.  They can raise prices anytime as long as it doesn't hurt the business.  They don't have to pay a higher wage.  win-win-lose (owner-waiter-customer) proposition. [/quote]

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