Oh I agree,I can see them raising prices of menu items to help cover the lost revenue...and I don't see very many employees of those places working a forty hour week.
Actually, only 7 states have to pay their tipped works min wage ... all others don't have to. The businesses still can, but it's not required:
http://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm
you didn't understand what i was saying. I wasn't disagreeing with you but what I meant to do was add that all tipped employees must make min wage in the end. that's federal law. for states who pay min wage or above then it's irrelevant but for the states that pay below min wage, in the end their tipped employees must make min wage. if after tips they are short, then the employer has to pay the difference
so in the end, every tipped employee is making AT LEAST min wage no matter what state you are in. that's what I meant to say