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Waffle Now servers should have a higher payrate. The tipped minimum wage can not combat the inflation rates of today. If the tipped minimum wage has been the same since 1991, then that would mean it has been twenty-seven years since there has been an update in payment. Not to mention, that inflation has increased prices by 75% in these past twenty-four years. Waffle Now servers need a pay raise in order to have a livable wage.

The servers at Waffle Now claim that the base pay is extremely low. The way they work with this is to depend on tips that are recieved by consumers. However, the average tip in New Mexico resturants is 16.6% before subtracting income taxes. Compared to federal non-tipped wages, their income is not livable without

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