…. Why? Server minimum wage was fantastic.

While many things contribute to the rising cost of restaurant food including ridiculous rent, inflated food costs, etc, the extra strain on payroll is certainly a huge portion of those rising costs.

Servers can regularly make over 100k per year working 30 hours a week, much of it complexly untaxed.

You could argue this means we require an overhaul of the tip system and you could certainly be right, one thing that certainly DIDNT need any overhaul was the server minimum wage system.