@senatorlaughlin 4/ and again, business owners simply must pass increases labor costs on to consumers. Have business owners not have had to do that with higher energy costs, food costs, labor, supply chain interruptions resulting in high costs?
Talk to operator not idealists please.
@senatorlaughlin 3/ a simpler solution would be to mandate that employers make up the difference between the tipped hourly rate and the actual minimum wage, should tips not close that gap. Win win.
@senatorlaughlin 2/ again, servers earn over twice the minimum wage (hourly wage plus tips) currently. An increase to the current tipped hourly rate is not necessary. A simpler solution is to add to e legislation that tipped workers must be guaranteed to earn at least the minimum wage
@senatorlaughlin 1/ Correct, your bill does not eliminate tipping. However the net increase a business like ours will experience per hour of tipped wage will be be $6.17 per hour. The net result will be an increase of $100,000 payroll costs annually. That will result in increased menu prices.
@senatorlaughlin /4 in the end, servers will simply rather maintain the status quo. Everywhere and everyone that has tweaked the current tipping model has regretted it.
@senatorlaughlin /3 and for the “just eliminate tips and pay a living wage” crowd: sure, we operators can do that but customers will just end up assuming our higher labor costs through higher menu prices.
@senatorlaughlin /2 say a diner server waits on 10 tables in an hour and is tipped $5 per table. Do the math.
Our servers make $40 per hour include pre and post shift duties.
@senatorlaughlin Has your office completed a study to determine what the actual effective hourly rate is for servers and bartenders at various levels of service?
You will find that the rate is well above $15 per hour, whether fine dining or a diner.
Operators will simply raise prices = inflation
It’s ok to work an 8 hour shift at Best Buy or Christmas Tree Shop, but our servers can’t earn wages to buy Christmas gifts for their kids. It’s wrong. Show us the data and perhaps we will be ok with taking one for the team. Otherwise, they’re killing us - sometimes literally.
We’re PA COVID Compliant. Spaced and reduced capacity too. Customers tell us they feel safe. There’s contact tracing on steroids. We know they’re going to shut us down completely soon, but authorities have failed to share any data regarding increased spread in restaurants.