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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]why is it my job to pay the waitor[/quote]

Because that is the default for how our wage laws are crafted.  If it were not for gratuity, wait staff would be covered under the Dept of Labor's Fair Labor Standards Act (TLSA) and would be required to be paid minimum wage. Minimum wage is $7.25.  Wait staff are often paid as little as $5/hr and expected to make up the difference for their labor in gratuities.  If this didn't happen, then minimum wage would be enforced and the prices for restaurants would rise 150+% higher than they currently are to appropriately compensate the wait staff.

Whether you agree with it or not, when you tip low or fail to tip at all, what you are in fact doing is assisting the food industry in underpaying wait staff below what our country has deemed to be a fair minimum wage.  If you really want to object, you should object by lobbying your duly elected representatives to change the laws.  Instead, what you are doing is punishing the sub-minimum wage earners, the wait staff who have no control over the industry and how they get paid. That's petty, cheap and obnoxious.[/quote]

You are wrong about the "as little as $5/hour."  Try $2.75.[/quote]

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