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why not just do away with the tipping idea and increase the wages instead?
It's ingrained in the way of hospitality here. It would be difficult for everyone to just move to a system where there is no tipping, but rather, the food or service is 20% more expensive.
It's ingrained in the way of hospitality here. It would be difficult for everyone to just move to a system where there is no tipping, but rather, the food or service is 20% more expensive.
And it would change things. I hear the UK does not have much tipping, but they also eat out less frequently probably due to higher prices. They also have a different expectation for the meal. In the US it is in/out don't linger at the restrant there they linger.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires payment of at least the federal minimum wage to covered, nonexempt employees. An employer of a tipped employee is only required to pay $2.13 an hour in direct wages if that amount plus the tips received equals at least the federal minimum wage, the employee retains all tips and the employee customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips. If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference.
Some states have minimum wage laws specific to tipped employees. When an employee is subject to both the federal and state wage laws, the employee is entitled to the provisions which provides the greater benefits.
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