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"people on the internet have threatened to stop paying tips if wages go up. "

Uhh. Shouldn't that be, "Business owners have threatened to ban tipping if wages go up."?
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I just don't get why it's on the customer to ensure that customer service is good. Is a restaurant just a hangar with food on one side and customers on the other and then the customers contract out to some other folks to bring it to them while smiling?

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"Employee food discount: $0.50/hour (depending on girth)"

Awesome
4
So ridiculous. Something else these scumbags like Dave Meinert do is mandatory tip splitting -- taking tips from servers and distributing them amongst the entire staff, to avoid paying a real, taxable fair wage.

The tip credit ("total compensation") would allow this practice to grow, so everyone gets a $15 minimum wage by stealing the servers' tips to pay everyone's wages -- essentially turning a $15 minimum wage into a soft $15 maximum wage, a large portion untaxed, so workers don't get social security or unemployment benefits from their work.
5
"Because that's the level of burden on Seattle employers right now — and that's before considering the impact of the ObamaCare mandate, mandatory composting in restaurants, or the plastic bag ban."

This is definitely satire, right??
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@4
"Tipping out" - sharing a portion of tips with Host and Kitchen staff is a very common industry wide practice.
7
Since this is clearly a pro-15 Now joke site, shouldn't "businesses" be the word in quotes in the headline, not "tips"?
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@6,

It has also been deemed illegal by many courts.
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6 - Also it's been outright banned by jurisdictions, especially as part of a tip credit to meet a minimum wage. Even if Meinert wins in lobbying for a tip credit, this practice needs to be banned, in order to stop the practice of stealing tips in order to pay a minimum wage under-the-table for the rest of the workers.
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@8
Hadn't heard that. Just remember that way back when, when I worked in a restaurant in college, I sure wish they'd had that practice. The wait staff rolled in the tips, while they saw us, as cooks, as being way beneath them.
11
If business owners didn't steal our tips to line their own pockets and underpay waitstaff this would be funny.

But they do.

It's not your tip, owner!
12
I'm so far gone, both sites seem like parodies to me.
13
Most tipped employees who are my friends have expressed a wish that their paychecks be more consistent.
14
What's with the anti-tip people who think servers are simply roving clown heads whose sole functions are (1) clown head into which you yell your order, and (2) mobile food delivery robots? Can we do a PSA to educate them on the proper functions of a server? Servers are there to answer your questions about the food and drink on offer, to help with pairings, food allergies/avoidances, portion sizes, and overall to help you get the full enjoyment out of your visit. They also work to maintain the flow of orders in/out of the kitchen, decreasing wait times for tables to open up.

Please, Anna, Paul, Bethany, can you pull together some servers to create a PSA explaining what all they do besides tell the kitchen what you want and bring it to you?
15
Tipping out occurs in Seattle right now. It isn't used as a credit towards minimum wage, but some of the best quality ethnic restaurants in the city split tips amongst all non-managerial employees on shift at the time.
16
OneSeattle?

More like TwoSeattles. One for the 1%, one for the rest of us.
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tipping out the rest of the staff was SOP when I worked at restaurants. NOT tipping your bussers would have been so fucking douchey that you'd have paid for it on your next shift.

but it wasn't mandated by mgmt.
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"minimum compensation"

Clever bit of rebranding there.
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@16
So that 60 year old Vietnamese business owner who own a small Pho' shop and herself works seven days a week and broke down in tears when she found out about the push by 15Now is also part of the "evil one percent"? Really?

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