What in the world are you talking about? And what makes you think anything you said is even remotely relevant?

No... people dont go to a resturant and expect McDonalds level of service. They're also not going to pay McDonald prices nor expect to recieve McDonald food quality (or lack there of).

My expectation of atmosphere, food, and service is directly tied to the advertised price of the food.

Regardless. I'm not paying my garbagetruck driver twice. And they quite frankly performs a much more important service to me than any waiter ever could.

I pay my taxes. And they're paid from that. Just like i pay for my food, and would expect my waiter/chef/manager to get paid from that.

As of your last note. Please just stop... people make up Lemmy, people make up Reddit, and people are always a bunch of bastards. No one is better than the other.

The Resturants are required to pay a minimum wage. UNLESS, the tips they recieve brings them above minimum.

So no. They're not paid less. At worst. They both make minimum wage. Americans should educate themselves on their own shitty system

Maybe tip workers shouldn't have been fighting for tax less tips, and should have fought for a real wage?

I know so many tipped workers who fight to be able to guilt customers into paying their bills instead of just having a real wage. And they're going to find out that people aren't going to keep paying more and more guilt money to servers. I remember when 15% was the norm, and now people are saying it's 20, and fuck that.

Only in the short term

Subsidizing business owners isn't good for the workers