Yes, and then get rid of tipping.

Do we decrease tip from 20% to 15 or 10 if the minimum wage goes up

Where's the free market of supply and demand? Every time I go to a restaurant now the service is so slow because they can't find employees. Then raise the wage. If you raise it enough I'll quit my job and go work at the restaurant.

Yes. No one should be making less than minimum wage.

By all means, raise their wages so we can tip less.

I agree with whatever the waitresses or waiters want. So long as they understand that this will effect tip culture. My sister is working at Chilis and does very well tip wise, well over hourly minimum wage.

I made more money on weekends serving in CT than working anywhere else full time. People here are great tippers. Serving is hard but the money is worth it. Servers should always be tipped workers. It’s a big part of American restaurant culture.

This will put restaurants in a position to raise the cost of their goods. The only people who will benefit will be the servers as they will get minimum wage, and expect at least 20% on now a more expensive check average.

I'd like to see a minimum guaranteed payment for servers. If wage plus tip income is less than minimum wage, the business makes up the difference. In addition to providing some assurance to servers, this would maintain an incentive for servers to go above and beyond.

Currently, 76% say yes.

What we all have to ask ourselves is which system maximizes the take home pay for servers? If you go to minimum wage they will make 30,800 a year if they work 40 hours a week X 52 weeks. I would think with tipping they make a lot more and can work a lot less hours. It would be interesting to see this piloted across the spectrum of different restaurant establishments and see how the servers like it. I know servers who make between $ 200-400 a night with tips and only work 6 hours. I think they would quit if they were being paid $15/hr and then had taxes taken out of that. But if you pay minimum then tipping will have to go away because most will not be able to afford to dine out. I say this based on recent data we’re it said over 40% of the population was working paycheck to paycheck.

Tipping is retarded to begin with.

If I go out with my friends and we get 4 burgers instead of 4 steaks, the server gets less than half the tip for the same amount of work simply because of what we ordered.

I'm for that, but this is not a scientific poll. It is not a random sample of CT residents.

Raise their minimum and I’ll drop from 20% back to 15%

No

A better question would be will the economic impact of raising servers wages in terms of beneficial personal spending, reduced government transfer payments, increased tax revenue, etc. be better than the increased restaurant menu prices, the corresponding decreased demand for restaurants, the decreased/eliminated restaurant profitability, the decreased tax revenue, the costs to landlords of vacant locations, etc.

Sure, it would be great to raise wages. Minimum wages interfere with market forces. If you artificially set wages, you will keep capital out of markets because they won't get a sufficient return. Similarly, if wages were allowed to fall, all things being equal as no other market regulation, prices would have to fall because demand would fall as consumers wouldn't have enough to buy. It isn't always pretty on a day to day level but eventually the market corrects. Pervasive regulation prevents these mild and gradual market corrections. Every now and again, the market forces overwhelm government's efforts to regulate - see housing bubble, etc.

More government interfering with free market economics, and the outcome is predictable. Many of these restaurants barely survived Covid and now they are going to see their expenses go up, they will have to increase prices, and many consumers will choose to just stay home.

Dont do this, in seattle they get paid like $17-20 an hour and sometimes more and pass the cost onto the consumer making you pay 20% tips. I have stopped going out entirely, tips will not go down. Sometimes i wonder if companies just pocket this tip money or increased wage costs

I already pretty much end up tipping 25% at a regular restaurant Unless the server is a complete tool, and 15% at a counter restaurant, so I really don't have an issue with this. It might bring me back down to twenty percent for a table server. In the end it's just a shell game for me.

Yes

Yes!!!!!!

I give 20% tips even of mistakes are made. Because the person is working for a living and not on the welfare dole. They are probably getting more profit than the restaurant. No overhead, no liability, no payroll taxes, no rent. Leave it alone CT. Don’t muck it all up. Remember, generational welfare was created by good intentions.

Some of you do not pass the vibe check, smh. A lot of excuse to not pay people a consistent living wage. The key word is CONSISTENT. So much affects how much you are tipped that you cannot control. I’d rather have a consistent stream of income than a boom and bust cycle I cannot reliably predict. The individual cannot be held accountable on the good-will or lack thereof, unfortunately people are shitty and nothing can ever change that, so the system around it must change to acquire equity.

Quite the opposite. We should eliminate the minimum wage. This will increase competition. Because really, there’s no such thing as “making money”. Nobody makes money. They take money. Because whenever you get it is has to come out of somebody else’s pocket. Every morning, the barista TAKES five of my dollars for my coffee. And every morning I TAKE seven of her dollars out of the tip jar while she makes it. We’re both entrepreneurs, but in this case, I’m the better one.

Everyone should get a raise, unfortunately that's not how supply and demand works whatsoever.

Auto 18% for tables over 3 people, state wide.

Inflation is out of control, now is the time to tighten our belts, not throw money at every problem.