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Save My Tips
As a local restaurant operator, I am very concerned about S1760/A1240, which would eliminate the restaurant tip credit. The tip wage has doubled since 2015 and it has put extreme financial pressure on my business. Eliminating the tip credit will triple it. Local businesses like mine need support from our elected leaders, not another expensive mandate that we can’t afford. Since 2015 when the tip wage began to double, annual employment in full service NYC restaurants dropped from 6.7% to less than 1%. We should work to grow our businesses and support employment opportunities, but these actions eliminate them. If you want to support local businesses and jobs you CANNOT support S1760/A1240. Tipped workers at my place are already making more than the minimum wage, so there are better ways to support them and business like mine. Thank you for your consideration.
cc: Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee, Senator Zellnor Myrie and Senator Jessica Ramos
Oppose S1760/A1240
It is extremely expensive to run a small business in New York City, especially for restaurants like mine that have sky high labor costs. The cost of doing business in New York City is directly related to the thousands of closed storefronts around our neighborhoods. If you don’t want more shuttered stores and lost jobs then do NOT support S1760/A1240, which would eliminate the restaurant tip credit. I love our city and want to support my employees and hire new ones as my small business grows, but eliminating the restaurant tip credit won’t help us, it will hurt everyone. I urge you to reject S1760/A1240 and support your constituents in the restaurant industry.
cc: Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee, Senator Zellnor Myrie and Senator Jessica Ramos
Keep the restaurant tip credit
A recent survey found that 76.50% of full-service restaurant respondents reduced employee hours, and 36.30% eliminated jobs in 2018 in response to mandated wage increases. As a local restaurant operator, I can tell you this horrible trend is continuing in 2019. That’s why I hope you will reject S1760/A1240, which would eliminate the restaurant tip credit. It will have devastating impact on businesses like mine where tipped workers are already making more than the minimum wage. Please keep the restaurant tip credit in effect to support your constituents that work in the restaurant industry and small businesses. Thank you.
cc: Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee, Senator Zellnor Myrie and Senator Jessica Ramos
Help my business, reject S1760/A1240
I am restaurant operator in your district and I strongly urge you to reject S1760/A1240, which would eliminate the restaurant tip credit for the sake of my customers, my employees, and my business. Our small businesses can’t keep up with the constant government mandates! We’ve already witnessed a doubling in the tip wage in a mere three years, six consecutive annual minimum wage increases, a $300 increase to the minimum weekly rate for salaried employees, paid sick leave, healthcare, workers’ compensation, taxes, compliance, and other related costs. This also includes the upward pressures these increases place on all wages as an expense. I am working very hard to make my restaurant succeed in New York, but I need time to adjust, which I can’t do if you eliminate the restaurant tip credit. Please help my business and reject S1760/A1240.
cc: Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee, Senator Zellnor Myrie and Senator Jessica Ramos
Please stand strong and do not support S1760/A1240
As a restaurant operator and constituent, I want to emphasize that S1760/A1240 is bad policy that would eliminate the restaurant tip credit. All restaurants workers are guaranteed to earn at least $15 an hour between their base wage and tips. If they earn less, the law requires the employer pay the difference. So, no worker should earn less, unless the law is violated in which case it must be enforced. Eliminating the tip credit is not the solution. The reality is that at businesses like mine tipped workers earn good money. A survey covering nearly 14,000 tipped workers in NYC found those servers earn a median hourly wage of $25. I’ve made a big investment in my business and feel a responsibility to support my employees. If the restaurant tip credit is eliminated, it will seriously hurt my business and the income my employees depend on. Please stand strong and do not support S1760/A1240.
cc: Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee, Senator Zellnor Myrie and Senator Jessica Ramos
Eliminating the tip credit will hurt my employees
As a constituent and restaurant operator, I’m writing to tell you that eliminating the restaurant tip credit will cost my businesses nearly $12,000 a year, per full-time tipped employee. I simply can’t afford this action and it will significantly harm my business. Do you know how much I will need to raise menu prices to afford losing the tip credit? More than my customers want to, or can afford to pay. The tipped workers at my restaurant are already earning a lot more than the minimum wage and eliminating the tip credit, after consecutive annual increases will only stand to hurt them and my business. I urge you NOT to support S1760/A1240, which would eliminate the restaurant tip credit. Thank you.
cc: Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee, Senator Zellnor Myrie and Senator Jessica Ramos