Maybe they won't buy Chinese because China is our rival, if not our enemy.

If you want to pay your staff more money, that's great.  But not every restaurant can get away with raising prices 50 cents.  Most restaurants don't make it very long.  Forcing the prices up makes business survival that much more difficult.  You won't have any problem?  Great.  But not everyone can say that.  There are...more

Servers get tips.  They almost always get far more than their base wage.  If they don't get tips it's because they provide terrible service... so they should do something else.  Even then, their employers are required to pay them whatever it takes to make the regular minimum wage, when tips are taken into account.  Mos...more

When the time comes is in 4 years.  And there is no need to raise the prices by 50 cents, and eliminate the best argument for customers paying tips... particularly in lower scale restaurants.  Just leave the system alone and there is no need to raise prices and suffer all of the unintended consequences.  The truth is t...more

Dude, they are talking about taking the wage up, gradually, to 70% of the regular minimum.  At $10.10 per hour for the regular minimum, that's over $7 per hour for your staff.  Now do the math.

I agree.  Leave the tip system alone.

do, if there were no tips at all we wouldn't be talking about $3 an hour.  wahtevs was proposing to do away with tips and pay the staff a "fair"' wage (fair being undefined, of course).

Baloney.  It makes no difference at all if the 5 cents goes through the owner or goes directly to the staff.  Period.  The truth is that it would definitely take more than 5 cents more customer.  Period.

If each customer contributes 5 cents and you multiply that by 100 customers thats $10 to $15 a night  Get it now?