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Old Jan 12, 2011 | 4:54 pm
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Originally Posted by Sweetone
20% unless the server is bad. But honestly, I'm ready for restaurants to pay a decent wage to their servers thus enabling the quality of servers to improve.
California has no tips credit on the state minimum wage which already slightly exceeds the federal one ($8/hr vs. $7.25/hr), and several cities around here have living-wage ordinances which are higher still ($9.92/hr in San Francisco.)

Service quality is still relatively hit or miss. I don't know whether getting rid of tips and just raising prices to even out tip revenue would either help or hurt.
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