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Michigan

catbyte

(36,930 posts) Wed Dec 22, 2021, 08:02 PM Dec 2021

Minimum wage to increase Jan. 1 in Michigan [View all]

BFD. It's criminally low, especially for tipped employees. What a scam. Restaurants would pay the same wage. Tips are for service, and it costs restaurants nothing. As a former server, I resent the hell out of it.

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Minimum wage to increase Jan. 1 in Michigan [View all] catbyte Dec 2021 OP

I think a lot of people would support a system that paid servers $15/ hr and eliminated all tipping MichMan Dec 2021 #1

Oh yeah, my daughter would love this. snort Dec 2021 #2

So sounds like the present system works pretty well for many servers then. MichMan Dec 2021 #3

How about $15 per hour plus tips? multigraincracker Dec 2021 #4

Sure why not tip everyone MichMan Dec 2021 #5

A couple of years ago I gave a clerk at a gas station a $20 tip. multigraincracker Dec 2021 #6