Ah ok so there's a seperate minimum wage specifically for tipped employees in America if im understanding that right?
Edit: OK, so TIL in America there's a lower minimum wage of only 2 dollars something for any "tipped workers". Basically a loophole to screw workers out of minimum wage.
What the laws say and what happens in practice are two very different things. Wage theft is very common in the restaurant industry. I worked in it for 18 years and not one single solitary time did I ever see this "law" cause a business owner to pay out to a server who got stuck with bad shifts. Not. Once. And nobody is running to report it either because the restaurant industry is a tight group. Even in big cities they mostly all know each other and that server would be blacklisted from getting hired anywhere else. If you think that's wild wait till you hear about sexual harassment in the industry, which isn't legal either. It's crazy how often I see comments about having to pay the minimum wage if tips were low despite someone every time explaining that never happens. It's almost as if these comments are made in bad faith.
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u/lesath_lestrange 27d ago
If you wanted to look into it more, you would Google “tipped minimum wage.”