Kris Jacobs of The Jobs Now Coalition has an article in The Strib today about how opponents to a minimum wage increase base their arguments on a lot of smoke and mirrors. Restaurants are still falling back on the argument that servers are all getting rich, despite what that argument did for this guy:
Some Senators and Reps at the capitol are buying and reselling off the 2013 spring Restaurant industry menu, despite the fact that the ingredients are well past their expiration date. Senator Carrie Ruud said in a recent hearing supporting a Cap and Freeze on server wages, “What it does for the employers is when they (servers) are making these big amounts of money, they stay at the $7.25 and help these businesses survive.”
My question is, when did tips become a subsidy for restaurants unwilling to pay fair wages? Don’t people at the capitol understand that the vast majority of Minnesotans love their servers and don’t want to see them lose their tips?