Originally Posted by
Khantahr
Yes, yes I do. Businesses should charge what they need to charge in order to pay their employees a proper wage. Expecting their customers to pay their wages out of the goodness of their hearts is BS.
I've been to a (very) few restaurants in the US that do this, and make it clear on their menu that they do not accept tips. I love them for that.
If everybody stopped tipping, that would force the change, but people are too illogically married to giving people extra money for just doing their job.
that looks like it may be changing soon.
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Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., and Rep. Analilia Mejia, D-N.J., on Tuesday introduced the Living Wage for All Act — a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $25-per-hour and eliminate subminimum wages.”