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t-rexcellent t1_ja6i8e2 wrote

I-82 hasn't gone into effect yet (and when it does, it will be very gradual over a few years). When it is in effect, it will be very reassuring to know that even if a restaurant charges a "service fee" that doesn't go to staff, and if patrons choose not to tip because of that, the waitstaff will still earn a living wage like all other workers in the city.

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Camdc1234 t1_ja6dw3s wrote

A lot of what you are describing has been going on since the pandemic, and I would attribute this to behaviors restaurants began during the height of the pandemic, and some just never stopped, or some learned from adapting to COVID but now use indiscriminately

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