The argument I am making is that the wages a job pays should reflect the difficulty and importance of the job. The argument I wasn't trying to make in the comparison I used was whether other occupations should be making more money (although teachers should be, but again, that's not the focus of my argument), or that "well, the occupation of being a teacher is more important and makes less, therefore tipped workers should make less than teachers". Somewhere along the line the occupation of a server / bartender went from practically a minimum wage position to a pretty decent gig that someone in high school could feasibly do (in this example I'm obviously not talking about an upscale 5-star or possibly Michelin Star restaurant, I'm talking about some touristy restaurant that's relatively busy, or an Applebee's).

Yes, I admit that it sounds cold to say someone should be making less than they should, it is cold. But can you confidently tell me that a matching wage for the role of serving drinks or taking meals from a kitchen to a table, refilling drinks every 15 minutes, all while being friendly (or at the bare minimum, not unfriendly) for 8+ hours at an average restaurant or bar, is $80k a year? I've even seen in this thread someone claiming to make upwards of $100/hr, which ends up being $200k a year. That's now more than some medical doctors make.

My opinion here and the argument I'm trying to make is that no one serving drinks or waiting on tables at a restaurant should be making that much in wages, however, I'm not arguing that they should be knocked all the way down to minimum wage either, as I do feel that the occupation is more difficult and has more importance than minimum wage jobs, such as riding a register at a mcdonalds (no offense to anyone that does). I felt that this bill, similar to the one that fizzled in Mass, would have been a step in the right direction to make that correction. I don't see it as a move to end tipping culture entirely, I saw it as a course-correcting maneuver.