Andrew Christiansen is KGUN 9's Catalina Foothills reporter. Send your story ideas to Andrew at [email protected].
CATALINA FOOTHILLS, Ariz. — At Feast in Midtown, owner Doug Levy has been using the tip credit for years. Since he opened in 2001, he has seen the minimum wage go up from about two dollars to the current $14.35 per hour. One Fair Wage Action is trying to get rid of the tip credit and raise the minimum wage to $18 an hour.
“So now we’re paying more for food and we’re paying more for our labor, so now we have to charge our guests more money,” Levy said. For example, with today’s minimum wage of $14.35 per hour, tipped workers would make about about $10.76 an hour, and it would adjust whenever the minimum wage increases.Noah Dutcher works at a local restaurant and makes $11.35 an hour. He said he feels like tipped employees should not make minimum wage, and is comfortable with his pay.
As for the proposal to change the tip credit to 25 percent, he said it wouldn’t impact him too much but could impact full time restaurant employees.
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