To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Servers Deserve Standard Gratuity
It should not be up to the customer as to whether or not a server gets paid fairly. Increase restaurant prices by 20%. The server gets paid justly for their services and the customer doesn't have to worry about calculating a tip. Let's stop treating service industry workers like second class citizens!!
Why is this important?
There have been petitions before to demand a standardized gratuity to be added on to bills. This petition, however, asks that all restaurants and bars increase price points by 20% so that gratuity is automatically added into the bill. This way, the server is happy and the customer doesn't have to deal with calculating the tip. It is astonishing to me that in this day and age that the United States still treats service industry workers as second class citizens. It is not an easy industry to work in, and its workers deserve fair pay. If you have ever visited France before, you would know that their service industry workers are treated as professionals and don't have to worry if they are going to make rent or now, because it is not up to the customer what they make.