Most of them. It works like this: my 15 year old kid gets a job in a restaurant in Austin like 6 years ago (it’s more now, stay with me). Her “wage” is $5/hr, because NOBODY ACTUALLY MAKES MINIMUM WAGE in customer facing roles or jobs that require training in Texas, but they guarantee that she will make 17.50/hr net of tips and make up whatever tips don’t cover. Of course for grown-up staff those numbers are much higher, like $12&$20 or $25 straight.
in other words, you’re making a distinction without a difference. It might be $2.31, but even when it is, it’s not, and nobody even offers it because it’s a bad look and restaurants who try it can’t stay open.
Um, no.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to keep line cooks in a city in Texas? They aren’t often getting much or any of the tip out but they aren’t making the minimum wage unless the restaurant REALLY wants to be short staff in the kitchen until they go out of business.
Tips exist, yes. But they didn’t have a floor? Floors are common in big cities. I’m assuming they didn’t stick around?
Well I do live in Austin but I’m looking at server and cook listings in corpus and indeed and it’s all around $15-17/hr.