Restaurants adding service charges to address employee wage gap
Courtesy of Carmine’s on Penn)
Denver restaurants have been grappling with the wage gap between front-of-the-house and back-of-the-house employees for years.
Increasing competition and the rising state and city minimum wage have made it difficult to even out pay between wait staff and those in the kitchen who don’t get tipped, according to those in the industry.
Now, with the pandemic putting local restaurants in a state of almost constant uncertainty, multiple prominent restaurateurs have decided it’s the logical time to debut what they see as a solution the service charge.