Listen to the Wait Staff
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What to Know: The Washington D.C. City Council has introduced a measure to repeal a minimum wage hike for tipped staff – waiters, waitresses, bartenders and such – that voters approved in June. The hike is opposed by many of those tipped staff. DC’s Council threatened with political backlash if they repeal Initiative 77.
The TPPF Take: The council should listen to those who will be most affected – the tipped staff themselves.
The council should listen to those who will be most affected – the tipped staff themselves. “It’s simple economics,” writes TPPF’s Vance Ginn in the Washington Post. “Restaurant owners will probably compensate for mandated higher server wages by raising food prices. The predictable effect is fewer customers. And the remaining customers will be less inclined to tip. Tipping culture could die, leaving the ambitious wait staff or bartenders scraping by on what government — not their customers — says they’re worth.”
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