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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I strongly doubt that there is any bar or similar establishment in the city of the sort you've described where the average tip is much higher than 16%. Almost no one tips 25-30%, and the people who do are easily offset by those who don't tip or tip 10%.
Anyway I was at Earls 67 yesterday. Had a bunch of drinks, some appys, a salad. It was fine. The salad was tiny. Seems to be more about the share plates. Didn't think the value was particularly great. As for the service, it was friendly and generally good, though drinks were slow and there was one minor error with an appetizer that they went over and above to fix (I was fine with it). Standard sort of stumbling out of the gate for a place the first week after opening, nothing to dissuade you from going there.
Also, I think of all the similar venues around there (and there are a bunch) it might have the nicest atmosphere. Very bright, open.
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From the wording of the article, it sounds like the service charge will go to general revenue and the servers will just get a fixed wage that I assume would be higher than other restaurants.
This seems like a way to get around the minimum wage laws that are increasing and removing the lower minimum wage for liquor servers. Servers getting $15/hour in wages plus probably $10-$30/hour or more in not really taxable tips seems a little out of whack, and this seems like a decent enough system to deal with it and I would guess it becomes very common.