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Bet They Expect Tips Even After They Go To Salaries
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The Ninth Circuit court has decided that restaurants can't make workers share tips, which requires a little explanation. See, when you give your server a tip, a lot of restaurants take that money and put it in a pool, and then divide it among all the workers, including the people working back in the kitchen. The court said that restaurants can't do that, because a) it's a way they're using to underpay everyone, and b) it's not the restaurant's money to control, it's the servers'. The reason you should care is that it's one more, possibly major step towards the end of tipping. The trend is towards raising prices and paying the servers higher wages with benefits, and this might accelerate that movement. And if they raise prices less than the 20-25% I tip, maybe I'll come out ahead as a customer in the long run. (Los Angeles Times)
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