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Originally Posted by Roughneck
Previously the minimum wage was lower for servers. Now the minimum wage is going up and the discrepancy is gone. So it shouldn't be surprising.
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Not all servers used to make the minimum wage though. They could have landed anywhere between $10.20-$15 per hour yet now that people know they are making $15/hour they are adjusting their tips.
Example: If a server was making $12/hour in 2015 and you were tipping say 15-20% would it really make sense to start lowering your tips when the minimum wage went to $12.20?
People who are adjusting their tips strictly as a result of knowing the new minimum wage are being a little bit ignorant to the fact that they didn’t know what their server was making before. That being the case how can they know how much they need to adjust to keep their server from a loss? (If that is their intention)