So goes the old joke, submitted by a reader in response to my recent column advocating tipping 20 per cent at restaurants. (Servers in licensed restaurants will earn $12.20 an hour, less than Ontario’s Jan. 1 minimum wage of $14.) “To be clear, Restaurants Canada is not opposed to minimum wage increases. We are concerned, though, about the unintended consequences of increasing the minimum wage too quickly,” the group’s website says. The study found that tipping leads to “inequity and unfairness, loss of control of service quality, and difficulties in succession planning and promotion.”

Source: thestar November 10, 2017 19:07 UTC