Cant speak for the rest of the country but in my state there was a vote on this, and many workers actually supported it, but there was also a huge astroturfing campaign from restaurant owners claiming that tipped workers want to stay tipped when that wasn’t the case. They succeeded.
There’s a restaurant in seattle facing this issue right now. Walrus and the Carpenter. The staff is on strike because they want to keep tips as they feel they don’t make enough on salary. The restaurant just released their books and the owners arent making much more than a bartender at $90k. And that’s across all their restaurants.
It’s a complicated topic, complicated by different areas and laws, and complicated by both sides having good and bad points.
I absolutely believe that astroturfing happens on this topic. But natural opposition does as well.
Cant speak for the rest of the country but in my state there was a vote on this, and many workers actually supported it, but there was also a huge astroturfing campaign from restaurant owners claiming that tipped workers want to stay tipped when that wasn’t the case. They succeeded.
I’m sure there’s some of that as well.
There’s a restaurant in seattle facing this issue right now. Walrus and the Carpenter. The staff is on strike because they want to keep tips as they feel they don’t make enough on salary. The restaurant just released their books and the owners arent making much more than a bartender at $90k. And that’s across all their restaurants.
It’s a complicated topic, complicated by different areas and laws, and complicated by both sides having good and bad points.
I absolutely believe that astroturfing happens on this topic. But natural opposition does as well.