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The wait staff at the restaurants usually don't get tipped on those kinds of orders either. And in most of the US the wait staff are only making $2.13 an hour or something like that.

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Dude. CA minimum wage was more than that in the 1970s.

The $2.13 number is the minimum an employer has to pay to tipped employees. If the amount of tips plus $2.13 is less than the federal minimum wage of $7.25, the employer must make up the difference:

https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/minwage.pdf

I don't believe the California minimum wage law has tip credit.

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