Restaurant owners brace for impact when wages for tipped workers change

Restaurant owners brace  for impact when wages for  tipped workers change
Restaurant owners brace for impact when wages for tipped workers change

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Michigan restaurateurs have growing concerns about how the state minimum wage and overtime law will change tipped employee’s pay scheme when the current system is officially phased out on Feb. 21, 2029.

The tip credit system is how most restaurants traditionally relied on paying servers and bartenders by using tips in calculating their earnings. That meant those tipped workers earned more th…