tipped minimum wage - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Wed, 04 Jan 2023 15:06:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png tipped minimum wage - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 DC’s New Restaurant Pay Rules Are Already Changing Dining https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/01/03/initiative-82-is-changing-dc-dining/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=initiative-82-is-changing-dc-dining Tue, 03 Jan 2023 20:35:37 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1616554 DC’s dining scene is on the brink of becoming an expensive, soulless wasteland—or, you know, a bastion of fair pay where workers and restaurants thrive. District voters overwhelmingly passed Initiative 82 in November, and as a result, restaurants will start phasing out the current “tip credit” system, which lets businesses pay as little as $5.35 […]

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Initiative 82 Has Passed. How 5 Restaurant Owners Plan to Adapt. https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/11/09/initiative-82-has-passed-how-5-restaurant-owners-plan-to-adapt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=initiative-82-has-passed-how-5-restaurant-owners-plan-to-adapt Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:47:49 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1605206 Initiative 82—the DC ballot measure aimed at phasing out the tipped minimum wage—passed last night with nearly 75 percent of the vote. Incrementally over the next five years, employers will go from paying servers, bartenders, and other tipped workers at least $5.35 an hour to more than triple that. Currently, those employees earn the majority […]

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A DC Voter’s Guide to Initiative 82 and the Tipped Minimum Wage https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/10/24/a-dc-voters-guide-to-initiative-82-and-the-tipped-minimum-wage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-dc-voters-guide-to-initiative-82-and-the-tipped-minimum-wage Mon, 24 Oct 2022 18:21:46 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1599661 DC voters will soon decide whether to eliminate the tipped minimum wage. The ballot measure, dubbed Initiative 82, has the potential to transform the way restaurants operate, servers and bartenders are paid, and diners eat out. But we don’t blame you for finding it all confusing. So, here’s a primer: First off, what is the […]

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The Restaurant Industry Is Plagued By Sexual Harassment. Will Initiative 77 Change Anything? https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/06/18/sexual-harassment-initiative-77/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sexual-harassment-initiative-77 Mon, 18 Jun 2018 17:14:14 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=389189 It started with the customer touching her wrist, the small of her back. Server Abby Dunn indulged him at first. She laughed when the regular, who was having dinner with some colleagues, joked about wanting to take her out on a date. It was a slow weeknight at the DC Italian restaurant she worked at […]

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Everything You Need to Know About Initiative 77 and the Tipped Minimum Wage https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/05/03/everything-you-need-to-know-about-initiative-77-and-the-tipped-minimum-wage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=everything-you-need-to-know-about-initiative-77-and-the-tipped-minimum-wage Thu, 03 May 2018 15:58:34 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=360643 DC voters will soon decide whether to eliminate the tipped minimum wage.  The ballot measure, dubbed Initiative 77, has the potential to transform the way restaurants operate, servers and bartenders are paid, and diners eat out. But we don’t blame you for finding it all confusing. So, here’s a primer: First off, what is the […]

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