Should Restuarants Be Allowed To Pay Paid Unemployees?

Restuarants are allowed to pay their tipped employees far less than minimum wage, and as a result, server's income depends mostly, and in some cases entirely, on tips. Many people believe that employers should have to pay tipped employees minimum wage, and there are good arguments on both sides of the issue.

It seems strange that a person's paycheck would be dependent on the generosity of the people they serve. Technically tipping is not required, and unless they have worked in a restuarant themselves, people might not realize how important it is to a servers income. Despite this fact, the tradition of tipping is very established, and servers recieve a relatively consistent paycheck. In the first letter, they used a statistic showing that the performance of a server does not drastically affect the tip they recieve. To me, this shows that tips are consistent enough (regardless of the quality of service) to provide a server with stable pay, simaler to an hourly wage.

However, if nobody comes to the restuarant, nobody can leave a tip. On a very slow day where a server might only get if a few tables, they might end up making less than minimum wage for non tipped workers. Restuarants should be sure that all of their employees are making at least minimum wage. If a server is performing their job at the standards set by the restuarant, and still not …show more content…
I work in a very popular resturant and on weekends the dinner rush can be soul crushing. What keeps me working hard and maintaining a high level of service is the fact that I am making a lot of money. Another way to say this is that the amount of money a tipped worker makes is directly related to how hard they have to work. Service is incredibly important to the success of a restuarant and the fact that servers depend on tips ensures that the quality of service will remain high even when it's