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Article: Restaurant owners lobby state for higher tip credit
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
- Article date:
- March 3, 2000
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The meal was great, the service was superb and the tip you gave reflected both.
End of story?
Not at the state Legislature, where lawmakers want to raise the state's minimum wage to $5.75 and slightly increase the tip credit.
The tip credit is the difference between the minimum wage and the amount paid to waiters and waitresses who regularly get tips. In Hawaii, restaurant owners can pay those workers 20 cents less than minimum wage.
But across the mainland it is dramatically less. Many states require tipped employees to get only 50 percent of the minimum wage.
Waiters and waitresses in Washington, D.C., for example, get $2.23 an hour. Those in ...