What we all have to ask ourselves is which system maximizes the take home pay for servers? If you go to minimum wage they will make 30,800 a year if they work 40 hours a week X 52 weeks. I would think with tipping they make a lot more and can work a lot less hours. It would be interesting to see this piloted across the spectrum of different restaurant establishments and see how the servers like it. I know servers who make between $ 200-400 a night with tips and only work 6 hours. I think they would quit if they were being paid $15/hr and then had taxes taken out of that. But if you pay minimum then tipping will have to go away because most will not be able to afford to dine out. I say this based on recent data we’re it said over 40% of the population was working paycheck to paycheck.