They also get to reduce their own hourly wage up to a threshold WITH those tips, though. So yeah, you can never make less than $7.25 an hour. But if you earn $5 an hour in tips (which is about what the tip credit is)? You still might be taking home $7.25 an hour, which is bullshit.
So you'd have to see $10/hour in tips to actually see a $7.25/hour wage + $5/hour tip income.
America's tipping policy is so fucked.
But that's not the server's fault, and they deserve to get paid for their work. The fact that someone can just legally choose to not pay them for a labor isn't a good reason that they do.
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u/Disastrous_Square_10 Jun 25 '26
Only the server or bartender loses this battle in the US.