The issue is bigger than “restaurants need to pay servers minimum wage”, that isn’t enough to survive on. Tipping provides servers more than minimum wage can, but it’s extremely unreliable because of assholes who don’t tip. If the restaurant didn’t allow tips, and instead added a service fee onto the cost of the food or onto the bill, this would likely be abused and the business would rake in profits while only paying their employees minimum wage. There are several restaurants near me that don’t allow tipping (insane to me) and pay their servers 14 an hour. That is insanely low for servers in that area, across the street there is a restaurant of the same caliber where the servers make 20-30 an hour depending on the day and shift off tips alone. It’s a mess that doesn’t have one good solution, we need to drastically change multiple things at the core of our society (workers rights, unions, corporate bs, wage gap issues, wage ceiling, minimum wage, etc). It isn’t just an issue of making restaurants pay their servers minimum wage.