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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 6119762" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>But the minimum wage is so low that, even if it balances out to minimum wage, that's awfully little to live on.  The problem with paying competitive wages is the servers would have to be paid for the entire day at that wage but restaurants are typically only busy at meal times.  They'd have to jack up prices even higher which would lose them business.  Which would make it that much harder to stay in business.  Literally the best scenario for all concerned is there's no taxes on tips.  If you refuse to tip but think paying.them high hourly.pay is the way to go then I guess you're fine with restaurant costs going up 25% or more?  Remember also.that the employer also has to match Social Security taxes.</p></blockquote><p></p>