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Originally Posted by m0rpheus
Indeed. Servers do make less but the general minimum wage here in Ontario is (as of March 1st 2007) $9.50. Server minimum wage is $8.25.
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This speaks volumes about why a Canadian would pay 15% to 20%. Where I come from, 15% is acceptable because we pay a reasonable wage to our servers to start with. It is also drilled into our heads (here anyway) that a tip should be 15% of the bill.
The insanity of paying a server $2.50 I just can't fathom.
As for fine dining (as I believe Host was speaking about), I would be hard-pressed to believe that a two or three-star Michelin restaurant pays their servers anywhere near $2.50. I would expect that a top restaurant would pay much more as their servers have a lot more to do (and know) than a regular restaurant. I should also be noted that 15% of some of the bills that can get racked up at establishments of this nature is a significant amount of money.