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Attachment C - Tip Offset Community Engagement Results
Special Meeting, July 30, 2026 · item 3A: Second reading and consideration of a motion to amend and pass Ordinance 8754 amending Chapter 12-6, “Minimum Wage,” B.R.C. 1981, setting a … · 127 pages
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Attachment C: Tip Offset Community Engagement Results Staff conducted community outreach and engagement from April 21 through June 2, 2026. Engagement focused on an online questionnaire on BeHeardBoulder.org, offered in English and Spanish. The questionnaire could be taken anonymously. To reach a broad audience as well as restaurant workers and owners about the opportunity to fill out the questionnaire, staff used a variety of communication channels: •
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Standard city communications, including a press release, NextDoor (posted to over 70,000 accounts), the citywide e-newsletter (19,000 subscribers), three city Business Bulletins (141 subscribers), the Health and Human Servies e-newsletter (1,862 subscribers), posts and paid advertising on Instagram and Facebook (29,222 views), a post on Linkedin (1,300 views), Inside Boulder News segments in English and Spanish and was the top feature on the city's website. Interview on Denver 7 on May 2. Connecting with partner organizations, most of which stated an intention to share information and encourage participation in the questionnaire. o University of Colorado–Boulder o Boulder Area Labor Council o Downtown Boulder Partnership o Boulder Chamber o Boulder Restaurant Alliance o Latino Chamber of Commerce of Boulder County o Boulder Convention & Visitors Bureau Visiting 100 restaurants across the city to share information on the tip offset, leave a flyer with a QR code directly to the questionnaire and encourage employees, managers and owners to share their voice.
In the questionnaire, participants were asked to identify the degree of change to the tip offset they supported, ranging from "Major Change" (a large increase to the tip offset) to "No Change" (no change to the tip offset). As noted in the memo, while analyzing these questionnaire responses, staff noticed some discrepancies between the degree of change a respondent selected and their written responses. For example, some respondents selected “Major Change” but only described negative impacts of increasing the tip offset, and vice versa. Where a discrepancy was very clear, staff modified the answer to the degree of change accordingly. The modified results are shown in the memo. The original data and modified data are presented in Figures 1 and 2 below. All of the raw data from the English and Spanish questionnaires are included in the following pages.
Figure 1: Original Responses to “How Much Change to the Tip Offset Do You Support?” 120 110
Number of Respones
100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0
Major change
Community member
Substantial change
Moderate change
Restaurant employee
Slight change
No change
Restaurant owner or operator
Number of Responses
Figure 2: Modified Responses to “How Much Change to the Tip Offset Do You Support?” 120 110 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Major change Community member
Substantial change
Moderate change
Restaurant employee
Slight change
No change
Restaurant owner or operator
Tip Offset Questionnaire
SURVEY RESPONSE REPORT 12 March 2018 - 02 June 2026 PROJECT NAME: Exploring the City’s New Authority to Modify the Tip Offset
Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026
Q1. What is your gender?
0.4% 7.6% 5.1% 36.5%
50.5%
Question options
responses
%
Woman
101
36.5
Man
140
50.5
Non-binary/Genderqueer
14
5.1
Prefer not to say
21
7.6
Other (please specify)
1
0.4
Optional question · 277 responses · 0 skipped Question type : Radio Button Question
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026
Q2. Are you a member of the LGBTQ+ community?
11.3% 21.8%
66.9%
Question options
responses
%
Yes
60
21.8
No
184
66.9
Prefer not to say
31
11.3
Optional question · 275 responses · 2 skipped Question type : Radio Button Question
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026
Q3. Which race(s) and/or ethnic group(s) do you most identify with? Select all that apply.
300
200
100
0
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responses
%
American Indian or Alaska Native
5
1.8
Asian
8
3.0
Black or African-American
6
2.2
Latine/Latinx/Hispanic
21
7.7
Middle Eastern or North African
4
1.5
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
1
0.4
White
236
87.1
Other (please specify)
11
4.1
Optional question · 271 responses · 6 skipped Question type : Checkbox Question
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026
Q4. What is your age range?
0.0%
9.5%
4.0% 14.5% 18.9%
15.6%
37.5%
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responses
%
18-24
26
9.5
25-34
52
18.9
35-54
103
37.5
55-65
43
15.6
65 and over
40
14.5
I prefer not to say
11
4.0
Under 18
0
0.0
Optional question · 275 responses · 2 skipped Question type : Radio Button Question
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026
Q5. How would you describe your annual household income?
15.9%
9.0%
11.9%
22.0%
25.3%
15.9%
Question options
responses
%
Less than $25,000 a year
25
9.0
$25,000 to $49,999 a year
33
11.9
$50,000 to $99,999 a year
70
25.3
$100,000 to $149,999 a year
44
15.9
$150,000 a year or more
61
22.0
I prefer not to say
44
15.9
Optional question · 277 responses · 0 skipped Question type : Radio Button Question
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026
Q6. Do you own or rent your home?
4.7% 4.0%
36.8%
Question options
54.5%
responses
%
Own
151
54.5
Rent
102
36.8
Other
11
4.0
I prefer not to say
13
4.7
Optional question · 277 responses · 0 skipped Question type : Radio Button Question
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026
Q7. Where do you live? View Boulder subcommunities map.
0.7% 18.8%
5.4% 22.1%
1.8%
17.0%
3.6%
6.5% 15.2%
1.1% 2.9%
4.0%
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responses
%
North Boulder
52
18.8
Palo Park
5
1.8
Central Boulder
47
17.0
Crossroads
2
0.7
East Boulder
18
6.5
University
3
1.1
University Hill
11
4.0
Southeast Boulder
8
2.9
South Boulder
42
15.2
Gunbarrel
10
3.6
I do not live in Boulder, but I work there
61
22.1
I do not live in Boulder, but I am a frequent visitor there
15
5.4
I do not live in Boulder, but I am interested in the community and/or a particular issue
2
0.7
Optional question · 276 responses · 1 skipped Question type : Radio Button Question
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026
Q8. We want to hear from restaurant employees, restaurant owners, and any other community members with lived experience or interest in this topic. With that in mind, how do you identify?
20.2%
59.9%
Question options
19.9%
responses
%
Restaurant employee
56
20.2
Restaurant owner or operator
55
19.9
Community member
166
59.9
277 responses · 0 skipped Question type : Radio Button Question
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026
Q9. At your restaurant, do you take the $3.02 tip offset for eligible tipped wage earners?
36.4%
63.6%
Question options
responses
%
Yes
35
63.6
No
20
36.4
Optional question · 55 responses · 222 skipped Question type : Radio Button Question
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026
Q10. Why do you choose to take the tip offset? Anonymous 4/21/2026 03:22 PM
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My FOH staff makes A LOT in tips and I need to lower my labor costs
Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 4/23/2026 09:56 PM
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Anonymous
It saves money and our profits are very marginal or none, we loose money some
4/26/2026 10:46 AM
months and this did not happen during our first 5 years, it just gets harder and harder every year.
Anonymous 4/27/2026 11:06 AM
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It helps us maintain profitability
Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026
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Anonymous
Because the cost to run our restaurant is extremely high and the labor costs are a major
5/04/2026 11:52 AM
contributor to that problem.
Anonymous
Rising costs are killing restaurants, everytime we are forced to raise menu pricing due to
5/04/2026 12:34 PM
wage and product inflation the tipped staff get another raise due to increased menu pricing, its double dipping by tipped staff through ridiculous government regulation
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/04/2026 01:54 PM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/15/2026 10:08 AM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/21/2026 12:21 PM
Anonymous
We take the tip offset because all of the costs to operate our Restaurant have increased
5/23/2026 07:49 AM
substantially over the past few years.
Anonymous 5/25/2026 02:07 PM
Anonymous 5/25/2026 08:08 PM
Anonymous 5/26/2026 10:03 AM
Anonymous
Different pay structure for the back-of-house employees
5/26/2026 10:04 AM
Anonymous 5/26/2026 10:32 AM
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Anonymous
Our tipped employees earn between $7 and $50 per hour from tips. Most of our tipped
5/26/2026 11:30 AM
employees average $26/hour with a base rate of $13.80 plus tips. Because we claim the tip credit and lower our payroll burden we are able to make payroll during the slower months.
Anonymous
To offset our labor expenses and we do not operate a full house tip pool.
5/26/2026 11:46 AM
Anonymous
It works best for me
5/26/2026 12:00 PM
Anonymous
Labor is one of our biggest cost components and we need the tip offset to help with our
5/26/2026 12:13 PM
labor cost and to be able to offer our employees more hours they we could otherwise provide without the offset.
Anonymous 5/26/2026 01:16 PM
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Anonymous
In order to save on our payroll.
5/26/2026 01:38 PM
Anonymous
Because they make between 35-50 an hour in tips and we can allocate the funds in
5/26/2026 01:55 PM
other ways ie pay kitchen staff more, maintain equipment etc
Anonymous 5/26/2026 02:45 PM
Anonymous
Sustainable for restaurant
5/26/2026 03:14 PM
Anonymous
Because my operating costs are so high I can’t afford not to—and my employees make
5/26/2026 05:57 PM
more than I do.
Mh 5/26/2026 07:45 PM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/26/2026 09:22 PM
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Anonymous
It helps us provide jobs to more people.
5/27/2026 11:46 AM
It improves our wholesome work place by having more staff on. Understaffing is our number one issue on worker stress. It helps us pay the BOH a higher wage.
Anonymous
The tip offset is incredibly helpful to us in managing labor costs as we have to deal with
5/27/2026 12:24 PM
extremely high food costs and operating costs.
Anonymous 5/27/2026 12:42 PM
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Anonymous
While using the tip credit, our staff still earns between $25-$32/hour. Payroll expenses
5/28/2026 08:26 AM
in 2026 are now pushing the maximum amount possible to continue operating successfully without the labor expense breaking our bank and digging into company profits.
Anonymous 5/28/2026 08:39 AM
Anonymous
We have debated it every year for the last 6-7 years and have yet to go to the whole
5/28/2026 08:47 AM
house tip pool model. The original model worked great and was made to ensure tipped employees could not make a wage less than minimum wage. Some states still have the tipped minimum wage set at $2.13/ hr. But as is true in Colorado or any other state, the tipped employees cannot be paid less than the actual minimum wage set by that state. So whether it is $2.13/ hr or $10.00/hr, we still have responsibility to make sure tipped employees are making the minimum wage of Colorado, or Boulder county in this case.
Anonymous
We still pay over the minimum but costs are just too high to offer the full wages if we
5/28/2026 08:54 AM
dont have to.
Anonymous 5/28/2026 08:59 AM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/28/2026 09:53 AM
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Anonymous
Because it allows us to stay profitable and keep employing the 65 people that rely on us
5/28/2026 10:45 AM
to support their families
Anonymous
Our tips are very high. so it helps balance and pay the non tipped team better.
5/28/2026 10:19 AM
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Anonymous
Payroll is already our largest expense. Margins are thin.
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Anonymous
It helps allow us to keep prices down and still be a viable business
5/28/2026 11:00 AM
Anonymous
Financially beneficial
5/28/2026 11:21 AM
Anonymous
To help with my labor cost and MY servers are not on a tip pool
5/28/2026 11:28 AM
Anonymous
To reduce the payroll amount that increases every year
5/28/2026 12:01 PM
Anonymous
Because employees create more income with tips that are earned through great service
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and performance.
Anonymous
To keep the cost of labor as affordable as possible; without it we would not be able to
5/28/2026 12:23 PM
keep the doors open.
Anonymous 5/28/2026 01:18 PM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/28/2026 07:59 PM
Anonymous
Yes we take the tip offset as most of our staff does not even consider the wage in their
5/28/2026 08:12 PM
income, tips vastly make for most of their income and taxes make the wage unnoticeable in their paycheck.
Anonymous 5/28/2026 11:15 PM
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Anonymous
The minimum wage has been increasing very aggressively the past few years and the
5/29/2026 09:56 AM
tip credit allows us to keep prices down and keep wages for non-tipped employees more compettive. The tips that our tipped employees make on a regular basis far exceed the tip credit amount so taking the $3.02 crucial for keeping the business alive.
Anonymous 5/29/2026 11:07 AM
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Anonymous
Labor costs constitute an essential portion of all expenses. It helps the restaurant
5/29/2026 06:50 PM
survive. My tipped employees make an average of $25-$30 per hour.
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/29/2026 08:14 PM
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Waits make great income.
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 6/01/2026 06:16 PM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 6/01/2026 08:39 PM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Optional question · 33 responses · 244 skipped Question type : Essay Question
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Q11. Why do you choose not to take the tip offset? Anonymous 4/21/2026 03:22 PM
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My employees deserve to make a livable wage.
Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 4/23/2026 09:56 PM
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I don't know what this is
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Anonymous
We feel it is more fair that all hourly workers share in all tips. otherwise they would be
4/30/2026 12:34 PM
at flat hourly rates and not have the upside that FOH staff have.
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/08/2026 09:31 PM
Anonymous 5/10/2026 08:33 PM
Anonymous 5/10/2026 10:34 PM
Anonymous 5/11/2026 07:55 AM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/15/2026 10:30 AM
Anonymous 5/15/2026 11:16 AM
Anonymous 5/17/2026 10:04 AM
Anonymous 5/17/2026 11:24 PM
Anonymous 5/18/2026 04:41 AM
Anonymous 5/18/2026 09:51 AM
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Anonymous 5/18/2026 05:11 PM
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Anonymous 5/19/2026 08:10 PM
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Anonymous 5/21/2026 07:02 AM
Anonymous 5/21/2026 10:32 AM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/23/2026 07:49 AM
Anonymous 5/25/2026 02:07 PM
Anonymous 5/25/2026 08:08 PM
Anonymous
Tip pool
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Anonymous 5/26/2026 10:04 AM
Anonymous
We are a completely pooled house
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Anonymous 5/26/2026 10:43 AM
Anonymous 5/26/2026 11:30 AM
Anonymous 5/26/2026 11:46 AM
Anonymous 5/26/2026 12:00 PM
Anonymous 5/26/2026 12:13 PM
Anonymous
So that we can share tip pool across the entire staff, FOH and BOH.
5/26/2026 01:16 PM
Anonymous
We in our restaruant group chose at our Restaurants in both Denver and Boulder to use
5/26/2026 01:21 PM
Whole House Gratuity. Which is a law that was passed in 2019 in Colorado. That allows restaruants to distribute the tips between Kitchen, Dish and servers. This allows the entire restaurant team to make a living wage. And it has proven bennficial for our teams. But it comes at a high cost to the business. When the bill became law in 2019 the Min Wage was lower. Now the business is paying such a higher across the board min wage. It is barley tennable. The community of Boulder and Denver has seen less restaurants convert to this model as the stakes have become to high
Anonymous 5/26/2026 01:38 PM
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Mh 5/26/2026 07:45 PM
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We feel that the social and behavioral economics of tip pool is the fair system
Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/26/2026 08:50 PM
Anonymous 5/26/2026 09:22 PM
Anonymous 5/27/2026 08:01 AM
Anonymous
We do whole house gratuity. It dramatically increases the pay equity, reduces anyone
5/27/2026 08:54 AM
individuals exposure to bad tips, create team work, addresses both those employees who are not eligible for traditional tips and requires for 100% pass through of all money collected. It is by far a fairer and more equitable system and the only reason that it is not more widely championed is that city council fails to understand it. Council sees the power in controlling the 'minimum wage' narrative when in reality if they understood that Whole House Gratuity, they could actually do something meaningful for the restaurant community and all the employees who work within it.
Anonymous 5/27/2026 08:54 AM
Anonymous 5/27/2026 11:46 AM
Anonymous 5/27/2026 12:24 PM
Anonymous
We pool all of our tips.
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Anonymous 5/27/2026 02:09 PM
Anonymous
Currently tipping out the kitchen, so paying front of house staff full minimum wage.
5/27/2026 07:08 PM
However as the minimum wage increases we are being forced to eliminate kitchen tips which will reduce the kitchen staff’s overall pay, but will allow us to stay in business. In an industry where front of house staff makes around $200 a night in tips, and then a large minimum wage, the increase in minimum wage without a more sizable tax credit creates a greater disparity of income between the hard-working kitchen staff and the front of Host staff. This is not the case in most states, but here it causes us to cut hours as well for kitchen staff to accommodate the large front of house wages.
Anonymous 5/27/2026 08:30 PM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/28/2026 08:47 AM
Anonymous 5/28/2026 08:54 AM
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Anonymous
Tips are not a huge portion of our staff wages because we are a quick casual concept.
5/28/2026 10:21 AM
If we were a table service restaurant we would take advantage of the offset.
Anonymous 5/28/2026 10:23 AM
Anonymous 5/28/2026 10:39 AM
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We currently have a whole house tip model.
Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/28/2026 06:54 PM
Anonymous 5/28/2026 07:02 PM
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Anonymous 5/28/2026 07:59 PM
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Anonymous 5/28/2026 11:15 PM
Anonymous 5/29/2026 06:10 AM
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Anonymous
We pool tips
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Anonymous 5/29/2026 08:47 AM
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Anonymous 5/29/2026 03:02 PM
Tina 5/29/2026 03:20 PM
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I do not understand it.
Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/29/2026 06:41 PM
Anonymous 5/29/2026 06:50 PM
Anonymous 5/29/2026 08:14 PM
Anonymous 5/29/2026 08:40 PM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/30/2026 09:49 PM
Anonymous 5/31/2026 03:33 AM
Anonymous 5/31/2026 07:29 AM
Anonymous 5/31/2026 10:10 AM
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Anonymous 5/31/2026 12:08 PM
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Anonymous
I tip share with the FOH and BOH and it is illegal to take the tip offset, so I pay everyone
6/01/2026 01:40 PM
minimum wage
Anonymous 6/01/2026 03:05 PM
Anonymous
We have always paid our staff minimum wage to start since we opened our doors in
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2007
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 6/01/2026 06:07 PM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 6/01/2026 08:00 PM
Anonymous 6/01/2026 08:06 PM
Anonymous 6/01/2026 08:39 PM
Anonymous 6/01/2026 08:40 PM
Anonymous 6/01/2026 09:09 PM
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We share tips with all team members so we are not legally allowed to take the tip offset.
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Anonymous 6/02/2026 10:48 PM
Optional question · 18 responses · 259 skipped Question type : Essay Question
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026
Q12. Do you earn a tipped wage?
8.9%
91.1%
Question options
responses
%
Yes
51
91.1
No
5
8.9
56 responses · 221 skipped Question type : Radio Button Question
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026
Q13. Approximately how much do you earn in tips per hour, on average? Anonymous 4/21/2026 03:22 PM
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Anonymous 4/21/2026 08:18 PM
Anonymous 4/22/2026 07:29 AM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 4/23/2026 09:56 PM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 4/30/2026 10:58 AM
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Anonymous 5/10/2026 08:33 PM
Anonymous 5/10/2026 10:34 PM
Anonymous 5/11/2026 07:55 AM
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Anonymous
8
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16
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5
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15
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15
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2
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16
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37
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Anonymous
10
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15
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5
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3
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25
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28
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10
5/26/2026 10:43 AM
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Anonymous 5/26/2026 02:45 PM
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Anonymous 5/26/2026 05:57 PM
Mh 5/26/2026 07:45 PM
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Anonymous
8
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65
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/28/2026 10:39 AM
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Anonymous
5
5/28/2026 01:18 PM
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Anonymous
13
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Anonymous
5
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/29/2026 07:57 AM
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Tina 5/29/2026 03:20 PM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/30/2026 07:46 AM
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Anonymous
4
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25
5/30/2026 09:29 AM
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15
5/30/2026 11:18 AM
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20
5/30/2026 01:46 PM
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Anonymous 5/31/2026 10:10 AM
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Anonymous
30
5/31/2026 01:07 PM
Anonymous 5/31/2026 11:14 PM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 6/01/2026 04:40 AM
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Anonymous
23
6/01/2026 07:18 PM
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12
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Optional question · 43 responses · 234 skipped Question type : Number Question
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026
Q14. Is the restaurant in the city of Boulder?
6.3%
93.7%
Question options
responses
%
Yes
104
93.7
No
7
6.3
111 responses · 166 skipped Question type : Radio Button Question
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Q15. What type of restaurant(s) do you work in or operate? Select all that apply.
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Full service
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1.5
Fast food or fast casual
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4.1
Coffee shop
9
3.4
Bar (limited food offerings)
5
1.9
150
56.2
Other (please specify)
5
1.9
Brewery (limited food offerings)
0
0.0
Not applicable, I am a community member
Optional question · 267 responses · 10 skipped Question type : Radio Button Question
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Q16. City Council is considering a number of options for modifying the tip offset
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Slight change
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Major change
Substantial change
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Slight change
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74
29
20
25
129
How much change to the current tip offset policy do you support? 277 responses · 0 skipped Question type : Likert Question
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Q16. City Council is considering a number of options for modifying the tip offset — How much change to the current tip offset policy do you support?
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129
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Q17. What do you think the positive impacts of increasing the tip offset could be for you, your family, and your community? Anonymous
Increasing the tip offset would lower my wages - there would not be a positive impact
4/21/2026 03:22 PM
Anonymous
Honestly I do not think our family will experience any positive benefit from cutting
4/21/2026 03:45 PM
workers wages.
Anonymous
None
4/21/2026 08:18 PM
Anonymous
More and more restaurants and establishments are asking for tips, I'm all for a living
4/22/2026 07:29 AM
wage but at this point for employees to be making what they are plus tips are ridiculous. Prices are increasing substantially and I cannot maintain my current level of going out to eat if prices continue to go up
Anonymous
Raise minimum wage to a living wage and trash the offset.
4/22/2026 07:42 AM
Anonymous 4/22/2026 08:20 AM
Anonymous
Keep my locally owned independant restaurant open and in businees. Labor cost here
4/22/2026 09:38 AM
in Boulder 15 years ago used to be about 38% and today it is about 52%. This is a % of sales. Most of that differnece is because the tipped minimum wage went from $4.34 to $13.80. And my servers today earn between $32 and $42 / hour. That's a lot for such a low barrier to entry job, they simply require quick thinking, fast actions and a bit of training. Federally and in 15 states the tipped minimum wage is $2.13. Restaurants would actually make money in that scenernio, or even say double or triple the Federal minimum.
Anonymous
The tip offset and minimum wage should match the state. There is no need for Boulder
4/22/2026 09:45 AM
to overcomplicate the issue and be different.
Anonymous
I think we should do away with tips. It's incredibly awkward to always be asked for a tip
4/22/2026 10:23 AM
when you bring up what you're purchasing or you've put your order in and are taking it to go, etc. Remove tips, have employers pay fair wages instead of all of these taxes/fair wage/back of house fees and a tipping area.
Anonymous
I guess that it could make eating out less expensive? But I somehow doubt that
4/22/2026 11:36 AM
Anonymous
Why do that? There's no need to burden tipped workers more. The questionnaire's
4/22/2026 12:54 PM
choices were a little confusing to me. I'm in favor of zero offset. Give tipped workers the same minimum wage as every other minimum wage worker. The added income from tips will make it easier for restaurant owners like me to find competent workers.
Anonymous
I lived in Europe for a time. Servers do not receive tips. Instead they receive a living
4/22/2026 01:07 PM
wage comparable to other jobs/careers. In this way the customer can feel they are treated fairly, receiving the service expected and knowing the server is already getting the income they deserve. The system of Tipping should be reevaluated in order to ensure hardworking people can pay their bills.
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous
I think people will tip more if there's an understanding that employees are making below
4/22/2026 01:49 PM
minimum wage. This is a benefit for everyone - the restaurant has lower expenses for employment and the employee can actually make more. I worked in restaurants when I was young and the base pay was something ridiculous - like $2.70/hr but I made so much money in tips, I had no expectation that my paycheck from the employer would contribute meaningfully to my income. I think the city needs to find ways to encourage food/restaurant businesses and nightlife that would extend restaurant/bar hours so businesses and workers have more opportunity to make money while the community members have more opportunities to socialize and enjoy local businesses.
Anonymous
Restaurant workers are not paid enough to begin with. I'd prefer the European and
4/22/2026 02:21 PM
Asian model of charging customers for the food and labor combined, and not asking us to supplant the labor costs.
Anonymous
I don't feel I will experience any positive impact
4/22/2026 03:29 PM
Anonymous
None
4/22/2026 09:22 PM
Anonymous 4/23/2026 07:09 AM
Anonymous
Possibly none, but there is a chance that if businesses depend so much on tips, some
4/23/2026 07:46 AM
of those may not make it, affecting my options
Anonymous
Improved service, better employee retention, and greater income stability for workers.
4/23/2026 08:19 AM
Higher wages can reduce reliance on tips—but only if paired with a clear, consistent model (such as service-included pricing) and strong communication to customers.
Anonymous
None
4/23/2026 02:52 PM
Anonymous 4/23/2026 07:28 PM
Anonymous
None
4/23/2026 09:56 PM
Anonymous
I am not sure what does tip offset meant or have impacts to me. But the tipped
4/24/2026 08:17 AM
minimum wage in Boulder is way too high now, causing raise in food and beverages pricing in restaurants. The increase in wages every year will inevitably be transferred to consumers like us. It has now reached a level that we consumers are cutting out eating out at restaurants due to the absurd high costs. Our further concern is the closing down of many family-owned local restaurants, which we love to dine in at. Then Boulder will lose its attractions to the locals and tourists, eventually.
Anonymous
To drop the minimum wage will help aid restaurateurs to survive.. Otherwise they will
4/24/2026 08:18 AM
shut their doors. Which is not good for the community.
Anonymous
I don't understand the tip offset but I do not agree the increase of the min wage as this is
4/24/2026 12:28 PM
causing a lot of chained effects to drive all the costs up
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous
It would mean that restaurants could actually make a profit. If restaurants go out of
4/24/2026 09:54 PM
business because costs are so high , particularly labor costs, that’s less revenue for the city and less jobs. Also the most impacted restaurants will be the local ones , not the chains.
Anonymous
Labor costs are killing small restaurant owners. Tipped employees are now making
4/25/2026 06:04 AM
more than the owner who bears all the risk.
Anonymous
Small restaurant owners may be able to stay in business.
4/25/2026 06:24 AM
Anonymous
A fair wage for working people. Although I think tips should be eliminated and all food
4/25/2026 07:38 AM
service workers should be paid standard wages like every other type of service job.
Anonymous
Allow my favorite, non national chain, restaurants survive and make a profit.
4/25/2026 09:30 AM
Anonymous
We do not go out to eat much anymore due to the significant increase in cost, which is
4/25/2026 04:12 PM
predominantly caused by the increase in labor costs. We’d love to be able to support local restaurants more and can only do that if costs are kept in check. Tipped workers make well above minimum wage and are not the workers most in need of help.
Anonymous
Full Service Restaurants to survive, we will end up with the a Boulder just with big
4/26/2026 10:46 AM
corporations owned restaurants, no more mom and pop’s businesses. My family will have to re-invente and it will be harder for us to make a living to support our four children and also very hard workers that have been with us since opening our restaurant will be jobless and many of them are immigrants and very diverse backgrounds. We are heading to be a boutique city just for the very wealthy with less public schools, with less of a variety of people all of different path of life. I have seen this happening since I live in Boulder for more that 21 years and feeling the city fail us in this respect because we know the restaurant community well and we have had to see many restaurants on Boulder go and heartbreaking for the person who once had a dream to add to our community with their restaurants.
Anonymous
None... Taking money away from the lowest-earning community members strains the
4/27/2026 11:06 AM
safety net, decreases the amount of money circulating in the local economy, and will negatively impact the quality of service due to increased worker shortages.
Anonymous
No positive impacts.
4/27/2026 11:42 AM
Anonymous
There is no benefit to freezing the subminimum wage. Restaurant workers are already
4/27/2026 11:48 AM
burdened with the cost of living in Boulder. There is no reason to place greater burden on some of the lowest paid workers in the city. The city should abandon the subminimum wage altogether so that every worker makes one fair wage with tips on top. Research has shown that in California after the subminimum wage was abandoned there was no significant impact on restaurants. In fact, California saw greater growth in restaurant openings after the subminimum wage was abandoned.
Anonymous
None.
4/27/2026 02:56 PM
Anonymous
I know owners of local restaurants. They are struggling because sales are stagnant,
4/27/2026 04:13 PM
while labor costs keep rising. Increasing the tip offset will help keep local restaurants in business.
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I will be able to continue supporting my local full-service restaurants, many of which are
4/27/2026 07:08 PM
on the fringe of closing because they can no longer meet the cost of goods sold. Change is needed now!
Anonymous
It will help struggling restaurants, of which there are many, and keep the variety
4/27/2026 09:54 PM
available to the public as well as the jobs these restaurants provide because they will be able to stay open.
Anonymous
I would like to see the tipped minimum wage to go down. said another way the tip offset
4/27/2026 11:24 PM
(difference between tipped and regular minimum wage) to increase. local restaurants would have lower costs in a high inflation environment. and not need to pay unskilled front of house workers so much while the kitchen staff remmins uneligible for tips, which is unfair. we are losing local owned restaurants due to the high costs. i dont want to see boulder full of chain restaurants with no character
Anonymous 4/28/2026 04:33 PM
Anonymous
Increasing the offset would give restaurants more flexibility on pricing to stay competitive
4/29/2026 03:10 PM
serve our community with affordable food.
Anonymous
Hopefully restaurants will stop getting more expensive. It's gotten crazy.
4/30/2026 09:47 AM
Anonymous
I believe in eliminating the tip offset. Members of the community should make a hundred
4/30/2026 10:58 AM
percent minimum wage plus tips. Waiting tables is a difficult job and I believe that owners need to pay their wait staff minimum wage plus tips. I also believe the wait staff should all get female for each shift that they work.
Anonymous
None
4/30/2026 12:15 PM
Anonymous
I believe it will help to slow the price escalation
4/30/2026 12:34 PM
For the above answer: I don’t know how much i support it. I don’t know what the details are.
Anonymous
Could lower restaurant costs but I do not see that as a positive impact to me or my
4/30/2026 01:43 PM
family. I suppose it could increase the number of available hours worked or slightly improve the process for new businesses to form.
Anonymous
Businesses are closing left and right due to increased costs across the board but
4/30/2026 03:00 PM
especially labor costs. Tip offset just makes sense to rise alongside CPI and base wage to keep costs in check. Nobody wants empty restaurants and storefronts. And if this doesn’t happen everyday community members are going to see astronomical price increases that may have a similarly chilling effect on businesses. Nobody wants to pay $10 for a latte or $25 for a sandwich which is what we’re talking about with out a modest tip offset increase.
Anonymous
None. I don't like the whole tipping thing, nor the bizarre expectations for both employee
4/30/2026 04:48 PM
behavior and customer behavior that go along with tipping.
Anonymous
Lower tips retain customers
4/30/2026 07:33 PM
Anonymous
No comment.
5/01/2026 06:16 AM
Anonymous 5/01/2026 07:18 AM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous
No positive impacts. The amazing restaurants that don't participate in tipping (an elitist
5/01/2026 08:19 AM
and racist practice) will face even more economic pressure to tip in order to stay competitive with their less conscientious competitors.
Anonymous
Avoid inflating costs of food and beverage. I imagine without this, employers would
5/01/2026 08:46 AM
recoup difference by increasing prices.
Anonymous
None
5/01/2026 08:50 AM
Anonymous
I’m unsure whether or not there would be positive impacts. I don’t understand why
5/01/2026 09:16 AM
Boulder, or Colorado, or the United States doesn’t do what most European places do and add the 20% gratuity directly to the bill. That would eliminate all confusion.
Anonymous 5/01/2026 02:23 PM
Anonymous
None, i dont expect price to come down.
5/01/2026 04:02 PM
Anonymous
I don't think there would be much of a positive change
5/03/2026 11:19 AM
Anonymous
Restaurant owners and managers are selfish, greedy people.
5/03/2026 03:23 PM
Anonymous
I don't believe there is a positive impact.
5/04/2026 07:32 AM
Anonymous
The impacts would be that we would be able to continue in business. As costs in
5/04/2026 11:52 AM
Boulder continue to skyrocket, it's getting more and more difficult to earn a profit and stay in business.
Anonymous
Might save many of the struggling restaurants
5/04/2026 12:34 PM
Anonymous
Modifying or changing the tip offset seems to imply increasing it. Therefore, I support a
5/04/2026 01:54 PM
minimal increase so that service workers who do outstanding work are well compensated for their efforts.
Anonymous 5/06/2026 04:26 PM
Anonymous
None. Employees should be paid a living wage and any tips should be for them, not the
5/08/2026 09:31 PM
employer.
Anonymous
None
5/10/2026 08:33 PM
Anonymous
Maintaining long-term, dedicated wait staff in the community.
5/10/2026 10:34 PM
Anonymous
I don't think there are any.
5/11/2026 07:55 AM
Anonymous
I am not a tipped wage employee, but I think increasing the tip offset will be detrimental
5/11/2026 02:15 PM
to the community.
Anonymous
Financial security. Most people I know are able to pay their bills but are living under
5/12/2026 07:18 AM
constant pressure and anxiety of whether and not gonna be able to
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous
Personally for me, I don’t believe it would have a great impact for me. Possibly that
5/12/2026 07:24 AM
restaurant food prices wouldn’t go up in the city of boulder. Though no matter what I can guarantee that these owners would still raise prices even if they had to pay us less. If they were told they couldn’t raise prices and had to obey that under contract, that would be a different story
Anonymous
Providing my family with food
5/12/2026 07:29 AM
Anonymous
Making it easier to live and save money especially in boulder where price increases
5/12/2026 08:15 AM
have made it almost impossible to live with only one job in the service industry
Anonymous 5/12/2026 08:54 AM
Anonymous 5/12/2026 09:28 AM
Anonymous
Help us get more of our actual worth
5/12/2026 10:34 AM
Anonymous
I’m not sure how the tip offset would affect me. I do know that my restaurant is on a tip
5/12/2026 10:37 AM
pool and it doesn’t seem fair. we a splitting tips with the back of the house so that the owners don’t have to pay them hourly wage. by cutting into my tips I have had to make some serious lifestyle changes and it’s made it really hard on me. I think we deserve a raise because of this.
Anonymous
The company will save more money.
5/12/2026 01:45 PM
Anonymous 5/12/2026 10:53 AM
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I could afford groceries and rent
Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous
I do not support increasing the tip offset, and I do not believe the positive impacts
5/13/2026 09:48 AM
claimed by proponents are supported by the evidence. The primary argument for increasing the tip offset is that it would reduce labor costs for restaurants facing financial pressure, helping them stay open and preserve jobs. I take the concerns of small, locally owned restaurants seriously. Boulder is richer for having independent, owner-operated restaurants, and I do not want those businesses to close. But the case for an offset increase rests on contested data. The $40/hr total compensation figure cited by Council member Benjamin in his March 30 hotline email, and used to justify proposals to slow tipped wage increases, is wrong by nearly half. Independent federal data from the U.S. Census American Community Survey shows median annual earnings for food service workers in Boulder County of $46,305 for men and $44,970 for women in 2024, equivalent to roughly $22 to $23 per hour. Critically, those figures assume full-time, year-round employment, which itself overstates typical restaurant compensation given the part-time, variable-hour reality of most restaurant work. A recent analysis in the Boulder Reporting Lab made a further point worth underscoring: the $40/hr figure being cited as evidence that tipped workers are thriving is almost exactly the hourly wage a Boulder County worker needs to earn to afford a modest apartment under standard affordability guidelines. It is not proof that workers are doing well. It is the floor below which housing becomes a burden. If relief for restaurants is the goal, direct support mechanisms would provide that relief without reducing the base wages of the workers least able to absorb the cost. The city should explore small business grants, streamlined permitting, and utility assistance. Council member Benjamin himself asked in his hotline questions which cost pressures — rent, food costs, insurance, utilities — council can actually influence through local policy. Staff's response was that they had focused only on the tip offset and would need council direction to explore other options. That exchange is telling. The tip offset is not the only tool available. It is simply the one that shifts costs onto workers.
Anonymous
Restaurant owner is able to take home more revenue
5/13/2026 10:12 AM
Anonymous
Could benefit workers who don’t receive the amount of tips that have earned.
5/13/2026 02:15 PM
Anonymous
I think the tip offset only benefits the city and business owners. It seems to be just
5/13/2026 04:26 PM
another loophole for businesses to get out of paying their employees a livable wage in the face of a statewide minimum wage increase.
Anonymous
None, I hardly make enough to live in Boulder already
5/14/2026 03:34 PM
Anonymous
I could pay my bills living in an already overly expensive area.
5/15/2026 10:08 AM
Anonymous 5/15/2026 10:30 AM
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It’s hard to afford rent in Boulder
Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous
Súper importante nos ayudaría muchísimo. Que las propinas no lo pusieran en la
5/15/2026 11:16 AM
nómina para no pagar impuestos y que sean completamente en efectivo.
Anonymous
None. Decrease it to $0.
5/17/2026 10:04 AM
Anonymous
None
5/17/2026 11:24 PM
Anonymous 5/18/2026 04:41 AM
Anonymous
I don't see any benefits to me, my family, or the community overall. I see that business
5/18/2026 09:51 AM
owners might feel negatively impacted, but I believe their concerns are better met by regulating commercial rents and easing other regulatory obstacles created by the city.
Anonymous
It would reduce the amount of hours that are required to work to make a livable wage
5/18/2026 09:59 AM
Anonymous
None. Restaurant owners will be lowering their costs by reducing paychecks to workers.
5/18/2026 04:33 PM
The City needs to find different ways of supporting restaurants than cutting pay to workers by increasing the offset.
Anonymous
There are none! An increase in the tip offset would make essential workers even more
5/18/2026 05:11 PM
pressured and would reduce their quality of life. I urge council to eliminate the tip offset entirely. Tips should put workers above minimum wage!
Anonymous 5/18/2026 05:21 PM
Anonymous
None. Prices will stay the same and a few business owners will have slightly better
5/19/2026 08:10 PM
margins.
Anonymous
It just benefits restaurant owners
5/20/2026 08:16 AM
Anonymous
More stable income, less hassle thinking about tips, the ethical thing to do.
5/20/2026 12:33 PM
Anonymous 5/20/2026 12:38 PM
Anonymous
None cause you are just looking to put dollars in your corrupt pockets
5/20/2026 12:45 PM
Anonymous
Not tips, everything is expensive. Company needs to pay its employees
5/21/2026 07:02 AM
Anonymous
Keep our small independent local restaurants from closing or cutting back hours
5/21/2026 10:32 AM
Anonymous
Lower overhead cost so lower prices on food and drinks
5/21/2026 11:26 AM
Anonymous
None. We should not be taking money out of the pockets of Boulder’s essential working
5/21/2026 11:35 AM
class to increase profits for business owners. It is already expensive enough to live here, we should be increasing wages instead of decreasing them.
Anonymous
Keeps prices lower for businesses.
5/21/2026 11:56 AM
Anonymous
I want to see BOH be able to make more money! All the restaurants money goes to
5/21/2026 12:14 PM
FOH, it’s hard to give raises to the people in the back when minimum wage goes up (doesn’t apply to them) and payroll just becomes more FOH heavy.
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I don't see any benefits to my family or me. As we are not shareholders in any company,
5/21/2026 12:21 PM
I don't see any way that cutting wages for others will benefit me.
Anonymous
We believe that we can stay in business if we can get some cost relief. If we do not see
5/23/2026 07:49 AM
some relief such as with payroll costs, we will likely not be able to stay in business.
Anonymous
It will allow restaurants, especially small independent full-service ones to survive. These
5/25/2026 02:07 PM
places are the heart and soul of the community. Margins are extremely small, and without a change to the tip credit we will drive small independent restauranteurs out of business. Wouldn't it be said if only large chain restaurants survived?
Anonymous
For my community, family, coworkers, and friends, raising the tip offset would not have
5/25/2026 08:08 PM
any positive impacts. Keeping it the same already makes it nearly impossible to make ends meet.
Anonymous
If it works for Tip pool as well then the business would not have to increase prices as
5/26/2026 10:03 AM
much and pass minimum wage increases to the guest
Anonymous
Reduce payroll taxes
5/26/2026 10:04 AM
Anonymous
The positive impact would be hopefully more restaurants staying in business and more
5/26/2026 10:32 AM
restaurants opening that aren’t fast casual or counter service. With more and more people in the digital world these days, we need more human interaction and more hospitality. If Boulder can exemplify that then I think it would be a win
Anonymous
People need more than just minimum wage to get by. Making a reasonable living is
5/26/2026 10:43 AM
good for mental health.
Anonymous
As costs increase for operators so do the prices of food and drink in restaurants. As a
5/26/2026 11:30 AM
limited service restaurant we rely on regular local business. When those people can't afford to eat our regularly our sales decline, forcing us to limit hours or staffing. Increasing the tip offset would allow us to keep our prices fixed and approachable for our regular local guests.
Anonymous
Small, independent restaurants could stay in business and continue to provide well
5/26/2026 11:46 AM
paying jobs for the communities they are immersed in.
Anonymous
More money to pay non tipped employees
5/26/2026 12:00 PM
Anonymous
It will enable us to maintain the hours of our tipped employees. Without a larger tip
5/26/2026 12:13 PM
offset, we won't be able to offer as many hours to our FOH employees. There simply won't be enough in our budget to afford that.
Anonymous
It's been shown, and has been my personal experience, that increasing the tip offset,
5/26/2026 01:16 PM
helps to control direct labor costs without negatively impacting take home pay for staff. In other words, there is a positively impactful benefit to restaurants without a negative impact to those earning wages. For Boulder, this means a healthier, more diverse small business community and more jobs available, and thus more pressure/incentive on those businesses to attract talented staffs.
Anonymous
I think we are looking at this through the wrong lenz. We should better educate
5/26/2026 01:21 PM
ourselves on Whole House Hospitality and find a away to get more restaruants to participate so we can get more people a higher wage
Anonymous
Our tips employees make on average over $50/hour. We would use the extra money to
5/26/2026 01:38 PM
give our kitchen staff raises. This would help their families a lot.
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Give us more ability to provide a living wage to our managers and kitchen staff since
5/26/2026 01:55 PM
FOH staff is already making beyond a living wage. Help maintain the business especially in face of slow downs .
Anonymous
None.
5/26/2026 02:45 PM
Anonymous
It helps to keep the restaurant open. It creates a fraction more cash to invest back in the
5/26/2026 03:14 PM
establishment and help pay for kitchen emloyees.
Anonymous
It would allow me to reinvest into my business, and allow me to provide a better
5/26/2026 05:57 PM
experience for my customers.
Mh
It would allow restaurants that are locked into the traditional tip model to add to their
5/26/2026 07:45 PM
bottom line and help them to survive.
Anonymous 5/26/2026 08:50 PM
Anonymous
Increasing the tip offset will only have negative impacts on my community by making it
5/26/2026 09:22 PM
harder for people to live here, and decreasing economic mobility within our city. Moreover, it is unlikely that restaurant owners would decrease prices if the offset were increased, despite the decrease in their labor costs. I would still be paying more for dining and still expected to tip 20%. Effectively, increasing the offset will result in greater profits by squeezing customers and workers.
Anonymous
I will make less money
5/27/2026 08:01 AM
Anonymous
It widens the pay discrepancy between dining room workers and kitchen workers. Its an
5/27/2026 08:54 AM
idiotic approach to solving a problem. Back up and assess your option before proceeding. There is a failure to connect inflation and the rising cost of everything and the natural rising increase in income related to higher check averages through tips. There has to be someone smart enough to analyze this on Council? You could do something that meaningful helps change the whole tipping culture and they way hospitality employees are paid. Not sure there are many positive examples of messing around with minimum wage yet you continue to like the headlines it brings you. Provide a tax credit offset for restaurants that participate in whole house gratuity. Be progressive and bold and please stop trying the same old tactics that has strong counter evidence.
Anonymous
NONE
5/27/2026 08:54 AM
Anonymous
We could hire more staff. Pay BOH more!
5/27/2026 11:46 AM
Lower our prices.
Anonymous
The tip offset can be the key for restaurants to make it or break it. Our employees earn
5/27/2026 12:24 PM
well above the minimum wage and the tip offset helps us to maintain what can sometimes be razor thin margins. Being able to pay our employees also ensures everyone is getting good hours. If the tip credit were to decrease, we would have to adjust employee hours and likely decrease our staff.
Anonymous
It will not affect our restaurants. But it will help many, some minority owned, and many
5/27/2026 12:42 PM
small, family operations continue to succeed. We are all at a point where many operators - long time and established restaurant operators in Boulder - are considering closing. It is becoming an impossible effort to make restaurants financially viable.
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous
No positive impacts. I do not think there should be a tip offset. I think that it is hard
5/27/2026 02:09 PM
enough to live in or near Boulder, and then your employer is allowed to reduce your wages because you might earn tips? Nonsense.
Anonymous
It would allow us to continue operating without greatly increasing prices, which inevitably
5/27/2026 07:08 PM
will reduce the frequency that people go to our restaurant. We have people that have been working for us for eight years, and we find ourselves having to cut back on kitchen hours to maintain an operable cost of labor. Our front of house staff is not attached to their hourly pay. They work for tips. Increasing the front of house pay every year has a negative effect on our ability to pay kitchen staff, many, who have children.
Anonymous
No positive impact to decreasing worker wages.
5/27/2026 08:30 PM
Anonymous
None
5/27/2026 10:27 PM
Anonymous 5/28/2026 07:40 AM
Anonymous 5/28/2026 08:20 AM
Anonymous
We could actually earn more stable income as the business owners, instead of taking a
5/28/2026 08:26 AM
loss, scrambling to stay in front of rising costs, or remaining flat on our profits from one year to the next as expenses have skyrocketed exorbitantly since the pandemic and NOTHING is the same cost since or has come down in cost. Labor, rent, taxes, insurance, cost of goods, maintenance, equipment have all gotten more expensive and more rapidly than ever before all at once, not allowing original margins for success to still hold their value. When 100% of the expenses to operate a business increase so drastically and all at once, it stresses out our systems, causing the business to cut expenses instead of adding to the offerings or investing in the business or staff, we have to scramble to stay afloat and we absolutely cannot simply raise prices high enough to keep the original margins without major sticker shock to the customer.
Anonymous 5/28/2026 08:39 AM
Anonymous
Allowing operators to manage paying all employees a more equitable wage, especially
5/28/2026 08:47 AM
allowing to pay our BOH employees more and what is deserved. The FOH employees are the highest paid in the restaurant by far, and they are the only employees that get an automatic increase in their wage every year. The offset was originally intended to make sure that any tipped employee was at least making minimum wage. So the tipped minimum wage should be dramatically lower, the offset should be dramatically larger than what it currently is with the increases in minimum wages every year. We have no issue with the increase in the minimum wage. Every year, we have $60k-$80K that goes directly into our highest earners pockets that we have to find ways of cutting back, sometimes decreasing hours, wages shifts from other valuable employees. And its very close to us not being able to operate any longer.
Anonymous
I just think going forward it shouldn't just so drastically every year. Its a huge impact on
5/28/2026 08:54 AM
business to raise wages 5-10% in January.
Anonymous
No positive if it’s decreasing my hourly wage
5/28/2026 08:59 AM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous
I actually do not think that increasing the tip credit will have any affect. Talking with
5/28/2026 09:53 AM
ownership at my restaurant, increasing the tip credit will harm the business owner as they pay out more money to staff, and effectively more in payroll taxes. As restaurants already operate on slim margins, this would hurt them. Plus, we don't currently tip pool. This has allowed us to provide excellent service because we attract motivated staff, and we believe we actually get tipped more because there is no service charges. If the tip credit were to decrease, the restaurant owner indicated that there would be no possible way forward without tip pooling, which discourages me and actually would make me quit, and I don't want to because I've worked their for over 10 years. And I don't even collect my minimum wage anyways as the government collects that for my taxes. So it doesn't even impact me because I earn so much in tips.
Anonymous
None
5/28/2026 10:01 AM
Anonymous
I do not see there being any positive impact
5/28/2026 10:45 AM
Anonymous
It would allow us to stay in business in Boulder. and would allow us to pay all members
5/28/2026 10:19 AM
of our staff well (as opposed to just tipped employees)
Anonymous 5/28/2026 10:21 AM
Anonymous
None. Greedier businesses.
5/28/2026 10:23 AM
Anonymous 5/28/2026 10:39 AM
Anonymous
It would allow us to keep prices low and still ensure our staff would continue to make
5/28/2026 11:00 AM
way above minimum wage. It would also help allow a small independent Boulder owned (I live in unincorporated Boulder) business to compete against national businesses and keep one of the few remaining Boulder institutions in business.
Anonymous
None
5/28/2026 11:21 AM
Anonymous
To be able to keep my labor low and not affect our customer with menu cost.
5/28/2026 11:28 AM
Anonymous
With hospitality revenue decreasing year over year, it becomes more difficult to have
5/28/2026 12:01 PM
staff on site. The establishment owners are always asking for us to switch to a minimal employee business model, like a self-pour tap wall, or all bar service (no service). We believe that the personal touch is important but it gets more difficult every year, even though the tipped employees get paid more, with their tips, than even the General Manager.
Anonymous
It needs to keep up with inflation and wage increases.
5/28/2026 12:17 PM
Anonymous
Allows small businesses to thrive financially which creates space for them to increase
5/28/2026 12:23 PM
employment rates, employee satisfaction and care, and allow for restaurants to offer better menu pricing to their guests.
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No positives, cutting planned increases for tipped wages workers like myself would
5/28/2026 01:18 PM
reduce the amount of reliable weekly income that I depend upon for my rent, groceries, and medical bills when my tips are slow or inconsistent, especially during the winter when my tips are the worst. My job does not provide health insurance so I must rely on my spouse's healthcare benefits, and we have struggle to make rent every month for over 3 years, relying heavily on EFAA and OUR center in order to make ends meet, and have since been forced to leave Boulder for Longmont over a year ago.
Anonymous
We have moral responsibility to support our brothers and sisters
5/28/2026 02:10 PM
We should take these things seriously even when acting costs us. Our behavior and actions can change the world we live in As a species we’re not doing very well in these grim times.
Anonymous
I do not see a positive impact
5/28/2026 02:22 PM
Anonymous
None
5/28/2026 02:47 PM
Anonymous
Allows for better pay for positions that are not tip compensated. Slows the meteoric rise
5/28/2026 03:27 PM
of FOH pay, as increase in hourly wage leads to increase in prices leads to increase in tips - so FOH have base wage that is disproportionately high PLUS the tips they receive - leaves no room for operators to pay those not receiving tips.
Anonymous
If increasing the offset means a lower hourly rate, then I don’t think that would really
5/28/2026 04:52 PM
help me directly, but it would help business owners keep costs lower for the community.
Anonymous
Closer to livable wages allow better community for all. More people can then afford the
5/28/2026 06:54 PM
services of my business. We are all connected. We all do better when we all do better.
Anonymous 5/28/2026 07:02 PM
Anonymous
I do not think there are positive impacts.
5/28/2026 07:57 PM
Anonymous
As a local restaurant operator, I have seen firsthand how rising labor costs, rent, food
5/28/2026 07:59 PM
costs, and insurance expenses have made it increasingly difficult to keep menu prices affordable for customers. Increasing the tip offset would help control rising restaurant labor costs and reduce the need for continued menu price increases. Rent, food costs, insurance, and other operating expenses have increased significantly in recent years, making it difficult for restaurants to remain affordable for customers. Many tipped employees already earn strong incomes through tips, and a higher tip offset would help restaurants remain financially sustainable, retain staff, invest in employee training, and keep prices more reasonable for local families. A healthier restaurant industry benefits the community by preserving jobs, supporting local businesses, and maintaining dining options for residents and visitors.
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous
A living wage is very important - especially in this high cost area. However the financial
5/28/2026 08:12 PM
strain on the restaurants income is huge for a cost that the recipients (staff) do not notice nor appreciate. One would be surprised how many staff members do not even realize the true hourly rate they are taking home (tips + wage). This leads to either cost cutting or price increases which are detrimental to the industry. In a perfect world there would be no tipping and serves could be paid living wages (not $15 or $20/hr but real living wages such as $35+/hr that they currently make and pricing would be appropriate. With the way things stand at the moment dining out is a crap shoot of hidden fees or cut corners that leave the customer dissatisfied with how they spend their money. A $20 meal at one restaurant can become a $30 meal at another with the same menu price but different fee/service structures. 3% inflation fee/4% living wage fee for the kitchen/20% 'service' fee (but tipping still encouraged). The most important part of living wage is the actual money brought home at the end of the day. If a server is making $40+/hr in tips they are being taken care of and the wage is just a drain on the restaurant. If they are making $5/hr in tips then the wage should be $20+/hr.
Anonymous 5/28/2026 11:15 PM
Anonymous
Higher wages benefit everyone in a local economy as it revitalizes the local market. It
5/29/2026 06:10 AM
inspires even more to operate their own businesses and hire even more people. This has a positive impact on cultural diversity and increasing both tourism and inclusion.
Anonymous
As a consumer I would like to eliminate tips completely like in most other developed
5/29/2026 06:21 AM
countries. When prices are listed in a menu, you end up paying 25% more and we have started to go less to restaurants. Business owners should pay the minimum wage and calculate it into their pricing and not expect the public to make employees dependent on customers and their tips. Then customers know their price, employees can plan on income and business people can take the risk and reward as entrepreneurs.
Anonymous
I think absolutely zero benefits. Please do not go after the small working class. If you
5/29/2026 06:55 AM
want to help restaurants create more tax incentives like the tip share. This is basically a decrease in wages when everything is more expensive.
Anonymous
I think it will help restaurants continue to operate. It is a real challenge to manage labor
5/29/2026 07:57 AM
costs without substantially raising prices and cutting hours. $20 burritos are becoming the norm because restaurants have no choice with minimum wage jumping up every year. Prices will continue to go up, service will suffer, and more restaurants will close as it becomes harder and harder to sustain margins in an already challenging industry.
Anonymous
None. We should be focusing on affordability in Boulder.
5/29/2026 08:47 AM
Anonymous
Negative impact for me in the short term, but in the long term it will allow the industry to
5/29/2026 09:11 AM
survive.
Anonymous
A larger tip credit would allow us to keep menu prices down in a time of hyper inflation.
5/29/2026 09:56 AM
The rapidly increasing minimum wage has by far been the larger driving factor for our increasing prices. With every price increase we are losing customers and risking the health of the business and the jobs of our employees.
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Increasing the offset theoretically should decrease costs for restaurant owners and
5/29/2026 11:07 AM
therefore the cost of food, HOWEVER, this is not always the case. The restaurant owners should be required to pass through the savings, but instead, they are adding line item fees for the cost of wages to the bills.
Anonymous
There are no positive impacts to increasing the tip offset. There are no positive impacts
5/29/2026 11:50 AM
of tipping in general. We should ban tipping in our city and pay people a fair wage
Anonymous
Minimum wage is fine where it is, no change is needed.
5/29/2026 11:51 AM
Anonymous
Not sure
5/29/2026 03:02 PM
Tina
I hate when we lose neighborhood, family-run restaurants, and helping restaurant
5/29/2026 03:20 PM
owners just a bit by allowing a greater tip offset would keep more of them in business. That helps employees too.
Anonymous 5/29/2026 03:54 PM
Anonymous
Pay people a living wage and not rely solely on tips
5/29/2026 04:27 PM
Anonymous
I think I could pay the back of the house more. For 2025, my shop increased $50,000 in
5/29/2026 05:06 PM
net sales. All of the $50,000 went to payroll. I did not get to save any money to get the restaurant through the winter, to prepare for a $250,000 restaurant renovation, nor pay anyone else.
Anonymous
I am not sure unless it could mean those serving me will be more satisfied due to a
5/29/2026 06:14 PM
better wage, and may provide a better service to me and my family.
Anonymous 5/29/2026 06:41 PM
Anonymous
It would allow me to keep my employees and survive the current difficult economic
5/29/2026 06:50 PM
situation.
Anonymous
No positives.
5/29/2026 08:14 PM
Anonymous
As a manager of a locally owned restaurant, I believe the tip offset should be adjusted
5/29/2026 08:40 PM
to help local restaurants with rapidly rising costs. Our restaurant does not pool tips, so servers are getting a raise every year when minimum wage increases, and the receive higher tips when we raise menu prices to combat rising costs. The $3.02 tip offset was first set in 2006, when the state minimum wage was $5.15 per hour, representing a 57% credit. Based on today’s minimum wage, it is less than a 20% credit. It would make much more sense for the tip credit to be set as a percentage of the minimum wage.
Anonymous
Remove the top offset please just stop forcing tips to be the way my boss thinks I am
5/29/2026 10:12 PM
paid. A higher “normal” minimum wage would be better.
Anonymous
It supposedly would allow existing restaurants and dining places to be able to continue
5/29/2026 11:33 PM
operating longer.
Anonymous 5/30/2026 12:43 AM
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Stay in business. Take better care of our good staff
5/30/2026 04:51 AM
Anonymous 5/30/2026 07:38 AM
Anonymous 5/30/2026 07:46 AM
Anonymous
Relieving pressure on business owners could help preserve existing businesses.
5/30/2026 08:58 AM
Anonymous
None. Employers already are underpaying staff in tipped jobs. Customer service jobs
5/30/2026 09:24 AM
are some of the hardest jobs around. Employees are working extremely hard and should not be losing out on potential tips so that employers can offset the cost.
Anonymous 5/30/2026 09:29 AM
Anonymous
There was no option to no change in question 10 but I think there should be no change.
5/30/2026 09:50 AM
Business owners should pay their employees a proper wage. I think most of the benefits will go into the owners' pockets. Anonymous 5/30/2026 10:00 AM
Anonymous 5/30/2026 10:59 AM
Anonymous 5/30/2026 11:18 AM
Anonymous
Hopefully lower restaurant prices, but it seems like the restaurant owners aren’t
5/30/2026 11:34 AM
discussing passing the savings through to customers.
Anonymous
Restaurant owners get to keep more money, letting them buy nicer things and go on
5/30/2026 01:46 PM
cooler vacations!
Anonymous
My family might be charged less for a restaurant meal than if the restaurant employees
5/30/2026 02:31 PM
were paid more.
Anonymous
No positive impacts of tip offset.
5/30/2026 04:43 PM
Anonymous
Literally none.
5/30/2026 07:18 PM
Anonymous 5/30/2026 09:49 PM
Anonymous
No positive impact at all
5/31/2026 03:33 AM
Anonymous 5/31/2026 07:29 AM
Anonymous
No positive impacts....Just another cob method to rip off visitors and constituents.
5/31/2026 10:10 AM
Anonymous
Zero
5/31/2026 12:03 PM
Anonymous
There aren’t any. (To be clear, I understand increasing the tip offset as just a convoluted
5/31/2026 12:08 PM
way of saying companies can offload more risk onto employees.)
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None.
5/31/2026 01:07 PM
Anonymous
The restaurant owners get to pay less in salaries and put more of the burden on
5/31/2026 11:14 PM
patrons. City Council said that it was not going to review the minimum wage for AT LEAST 3 years but here we are. What would be good for our community is for elected officials to keep teñir word and to listen to low income people not just business owners!
Anonymous 6/01/2026 03:20 AM
Anonymous
I am from Boulder and in 46 years here I've seen friends move away year after year
6/01/2026 04:40 AM
because they cannot afford to live here. You can't lower wages and say you want a vibrant community of people who actually live here. We've already become a place where rich people live and others drive in to perform service work. It's disgusting and should be reversed in every way possible.
Anonymous
I understand restaurant owners are struggling and I feel for them. I worked for many
6/01/2026 06:12 AM
years as a server in Boulder. Their margins are slim and I do not want them to fail -small businesses are the lifeblood of our community. That said, the fight should not be with their employees, who just want to be able to afford to live here. It should be with property owners, who do not lower rent even though the commercial rental market has declined. These property owners pass every single cost they incur onto their tenants. Or perhaps look at other fixed costs like payment processing or delivery apps who skim off the labor of both owners and servers.
Anonymous
Absolutely none. Presently, my partner is the only one with permanent employment
6/01/2026 06:51 AM
between us two. They work in haircare, a category not represented by the narrow categorization of being either a restaurant-associated person or not in this questionaire. They already have what they make in tips removed from their hourly wage by thier employer, and increasing the tip offset would further reduce our ability to make ends meet. There are literally no positive impacts for real people.
Anonymous 6/01/2026 07:10 AM
Anonymous
None
6/01/2026 08:48 AM
Anonymous
None
6/01/2026 09:37 AM
Anonymous
None.
6/01/2026 10:11 AM
Anonymous
There is no positive impact of doing this.
6/01/2026 01:40 PM
Anonymous
The ability to live in Boulder
6/01/2026 03:05 PM
Anonymous 6/01/2026 03:34 PM
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We can keep our small independent businesses running if we reduced the costs.
Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous
There is absolutely no benefit to anyone except to restaurant owners. It would reduce
6/01/2026 03:40 PM
the income of the middle class, make basic like food and housing unobtainable. The problem is that commercial space is owned by 3 companies that raise rental rates in tandem and would rather have a space vacant the housing a business which can benefit the community. If Boulder can pass bedrooms are for people then we need to pass retail spaces are for businesses. You successfully reduce the rent in this town and paying middle income people will not be a problem. Inflation and insane cost of living in Boulder is hurting people that do demanding jobs.
Anonymous
There is nothing positive about increasing the tip offset or tip credit.
6/01/2026 04:21 PM
Anonymous
No positive impacts
6/01/2026 05:42 PM
Anonymous
Restaurant owners keep more profits off the backs of tip payers and workers. It's
6/01/2026 06:07 PM
possible they won't hike up prices as much, but it's not likely it will equal out. This is an opportunity for them to keep making money while paying employees poorly.
Anonymous 6/01/2026 06:14 PM
Anonymous 6/01/2026 06:16 PM
Anonymous
I believe all employees should make a fair wage
6/01/2026 06:17 PM
Anonymous
All wages should be going up not down. Everything cost more now to live cost more.
6/01/2026 06:17 PM
Anonymous
Good service businesses already have thin margins; a slight change would help them
6/01/2026 06:22 PM
stay open while the tip offset on the Boulder minimum wage would still be less than the tip offset on the lower state minimum wage
Anonymous 6/01/2026 06:24 PM
Anonymous
None.
6/01/2026 06:26 PM
Anonymous 6/01/2026 06:30 PM
Anonymous
None
6/01/2026 06:32 PM
Anonymous 6/01/2026 06:33 PM
Anonymous
I’m most worried about the tipped workers who have to make a living and live in Boulder
6/01/2026 06:35 PM
or close to Boulder.
Anonymous 6/01/2026 06:36 PM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous
Business owners profit margins, already favored by the last state legislative session and
6/01/2026 06:48 PM
the federal administration, get even more help.
Anonymous
Business owners could make more money
6/01/2026 06:54 PM
Anonymous
I do not think there should be an offset
6/01/2026 07:07 PM
Anonymous
Nothing.
6/01/2026 07:14 PM
Anonymous
Workers in the community would have a better quality of life.
6/01/2026 07:16 PM
Anonymous
There are noe. Businesses are not offering to provide real benefits to employees like a
6/01/2026 07:18 PM
401k match, or health insurance or anything in lieu of their increased profits. Most of them don't even buy much if any local produce or equipment anyway. Even if they spent all their increased revenue to buy more supplies from Sysco or Shamrock or Greco or What Chefs Want, it would be about 1 cent on every 5 dollars of new tax revenue for the City of Boulder.
Anonymous
None.
6/01/2026 07:20 PM
Anonymous 6/01/2026 07:45 PM
Anonymous
None
6/01/2026 07:58 PM
Anonymous
No idea
6/01/2026 08:00 PM
Anonymous 6/01/2026 08:06 PM
Anonymous
I do not see any way to justify reducing the income of potentially vulnerable members of
6/01/2026 08:39 PM
our community in the context of an affordability crisis.
Anonymous
Nothing, Restaurant owners will just make more money.
6/01/2026 08:40 PM
Anonymous
I could afford to pay my rent and live. They give me no health care.
6/01/2026 09:09 PM
Anonymous
Would benefit the restaurant owners, the prices will still increase no matter what. That’s
6/01/2026 09:38 PM
how they role, I’ve worked in numerous boulder restaurants and they all are for the money. This time they would just be capitalizing more.
Anonymous 6/01/2026 10:48 PM
Anonymous
I do not see any positive impacts
6/01/2026 11:27 PM
Anonymous
Not sure. It is very hard to balance the needs of workers with the impact on restaurant
6/02/2026 06:04 AM
survival. As a consumer, I will continue to eat out and support restaurants and accept that if I choose to do that I must also support a fair/livable wage for workers.
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In our restaurants, tips average $25 per front of house labor hour. Add the tipped
6/02/2026 07:19 AM
minimum wage of $13.80 and the average pay for the front of house worker would be $38.80 per hour. Great wages that unfortunately inspire our smart youth to stay in this industry instead of pursing their passion of education or healthcare or other needed community services because they do not pay as much. I am proud of the restaurants we run and our teams, but the system is broken. The continuous increase in min wage = continuously higher prices = dining out is becoming more and more out of the price range for many in our community. It doesn't need to be this way. Let's recognize that the economics of tipping have changed and put pay rates back in balance. And let's keep our diverse and vibrant independent restaurant culture alive.
Anonymous
No positive impacts.
6/02/2026 07:39 AM
Anonymous
It’s important to take care of workers and prioritize their well being. We need to support
6/02/2026 08:11 AM
our local workers. If businesses claim that paying their workers fair wage means they can’t operate, they shouldn’t be operating. Or should be advocating for bigger, structural changes that will support our collective well being (taxing the super rich, advocating for more affordable business and housing rent, etc)
Anonymous
None
6/02/2026 11:55 AM
Anonymous 6/02/2026 11:56 AM
Anonymous 6/02/2026 12:23 PM
Anonymous
Currently, most restaurants in Boulder operate on a "tip pool" system and cap their
6/02/2026 12:30 PM
hourly wages; restaurant employees forgo their earned tips in exchange for a "consistent" wage. This hurts the worker. The business is relying on tips to pay its overhead and operating costs, when it should be charging more through menu prices, responsible sourcing and timekeeping, etc.
Anonymous
Reduced cost of eating out. Fewer restaurants failing.
6/02/2026 01:27 PM
Anonymous
Better restaurant stability and lower labor costs for restaurants that are already
6/02/2026 03:03 PM
struggling
Anonymous 6/02/2026 05:01 PM
Anonymous
None this burdens workers and consumers immensely and benefits an only very small
6/02/2026 05:40 PM
handful of restaurant owners while ignoring the real burden these small businesses face - commercial rent hikes.
Anonymous 6/02/2026 06:44 PM
Anonymous
I think that restaurant owners have found a way to offset paying staff a living wage and
6/02/2026 09:36 PM
passing that responsibility onto the consumer. A lot of restaurant workers are on public assistance because of practices like this and we the tax payer have taken on that responsibility. It is governments job to protect these citizens.
Anonymous
To be clear - I want major change as in lowering the tip offset. I think it would help small
6/02/2026 09:36 PM
business manage overwhelming expenses. This management is a bypass of the overwhelming fact that we need to tax the rich and stop scrapping for pennies.
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Restaurant owners in the community will be more rich from taking tips intended for their
6/02/2026 10:48 PM
workers. They will be able to take more expensive vacations and buy more expensive houses in the community.
Optional question · 232 responses · 45 skipped Question type : Essay Question
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Q18. What do you think the negative impacts of increasing the tip offset could be for you, your family, and your community? Anonymous
Increasing the tip offset would lower my wages - there would not be a positive impact
4/21/2026 03:22 PM
Anonymous
Do not cut workers wages-the idea that tipped employees are earning all kinds of money
4/21/2026 03:45 PM
is disingenuous, and that is the most precarious type of employment (by position, by shift, by hour) that I have ever worked (i.e. “it’s slow, you have to clock out and go home”). After working for years in service industry I transitioned to another job type with better regular hours and some benefits. Based on the low pay of that type of work. Do not lower tipped workers pay!!!
Anonymous
Community members will make less, and not be able to afford to live here anymore. It is
4/21/2026 08:18 PM
not in line with our values to take from the worker and give to the capitol owners.
Anonymous
None
4/22/2026 07:29 AM
Anonymous
Workers need a minimum wage that is a living wage in Boulder or they will be forced to
4/22/2026 07:42 AM
commute more and congest the roads etc.
Anonymous 4/22/2026 08:20 AM
Anonymous
You will continue to see full service restaurants struggle and go out of business. And
4/22/2026 09:38 AM
probably the corporate restau rants will fill the void.
Anonymous
The tip offset and minimum wage should match the state. There is no need for Boulder
4/22/2026 09:45 AM
to overcomplicate the issue and be different.
Anonymous
I think we should do away with tips. It's incredibly awkward to always be asked for a tip
4/22/2026 10:23 AM
when you bring up what you're purchasing or you've put your order in and are taking it to go, etc. Remove tips, have employers pay fair wages instead of all of these taxes/fair wage/back of house fees and a tipping area.
Anonymous
It feels like workers will get paid less. Also, I hate tipping! I do it, but I wish we could
4/22/2026 11:36 AM
move away from a system that is arbitrary at best, and totally inequitable.
Anonymous
If this went into effect I'd simply pay my employees more than the tipped minimum, like I
4/22/2026 12:54 PM
do now.
Anonymous
Too many people forego leaving a tip because they feel the prices are already too high.
4/22/2026 01:07 PM
There is a concern about leaving a tip that is pooled together for all servers, bar tenders and other restaurant employees to share at the end of the shift. There are additional concerns about being pressured to leave a tip for someone who simply takes an order at the counter. Aren't they simply doing their job? Why do they deserve a tip for taking a fast food order?
Anonymous
I would definitely tip way more. I was shocked when I found out servers were making
4/22/2026 01:49 PM
minimum wage and began significantly reducing my tips and stopped tipping at coffee shops and other to-go places.
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Restauranteurs say their margins are too slim. I think Boulder is a pretty wealthy
4/22/2026 02:21 PM
community and we would all appreciate a fair price with no tipping. That said, don't put the burden on us, the consumer. Offer a couple of lower-priced options on your menu to keep patrons dining with you.
Anonymous
Dillusion of the motivating aspect of the whole purpose of tips. Employer should pay a
4/22/2026 03:29 PM
wage, any tip should have no effect on employer other than passing on 100% of it to the employee for credit transactions. Poor service equals low tip, great service equals high tip. Free market determines wage above minumum. Already too much screwing around/lack of transparancy in this space with items like. '4% added for back of house livable wage'.
Anonymous
Fewer workers able to afford to live in Boulder.
4/22/2026 09:22 PM
Anonymous
This is bullshit. If an employer can’t afford minimum wage - they should not be in
4/23/2026 07:09 AM
business. Maybe the businesses should be paying lower rents rather than pay their workers less.
Anonymous
The informality of payment from the employer
4/23/2026 07:46 AM
Anonymous
Increased hourly wages don’t always reduce tipping expectations in practice. Without a
4/23/2026 08:19 AM
clear “no-tipping” or service-included model, customers often continue tipping at standard rates, which can lead to confusion and higher overall costs for diners.
Anonymous
Ultimately I think tips are an outdated tradition and should go away. By reducing the
4/23/2026 02:52 PM
tipped minimum wage, we are moving further away from this goal.
Anonymous 4/23/2026 07:28 PM
Anonymous
More reliance on tips for making ends meet
4/23/2026 09:56 PM
Anonymous 4/24/2026 08:17 AM
Anonymous
To drop the minimum wage will help aid restaurateurs to survive.. Otherwise they will
4/24/2026 08:18 AM
shut their doors. Which is not good for the community.
Anonymous
I don't understand the tip offset but I do not agree the increase of the min wage as this is
4/24/2026 12:28 PM
causing a lot of chained effects to drive all the costs up
Anonymous
None. There has to be a balance. Business owners should not benefit at the expense of
4/24/2026 09:54 PM
their employees, but it’s also not good to strangle business owners. Colorado is becoming very anti business, not good for anyone.
Anonymous
Tipped workers will lose a little pay.
4/25/2026 06:04 AM
Anonymous
Small restaurants will likely stay closing their doors because they can’t sustain the high
4/25/2026 06:24 AM
minimum wage and a small tip offset. Let’s not make Boulder a restaurant PE world. Let’s protect the small, family owned restaurants.
Anonymous
Restaurant prices may go up, but that is happening anyway,
4/25/2026 07:38 AM
Anonymous 4/25/2026 09:30 AM
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None
4/25/2026 04:12 PM
Anonymous
I kind of said this is the previous question. It will hurt my family having to close our
4/26/2026 10:46 AM
business which is probably happen because we can not keep up with the increasing mínimum wage every year, our margins are many months bellow 0 dollars profit we are using our savings to stay afloat until we have to make a decision to close. We have owned restaurants in our location for about 20 years. I will be heartbroken for our staff that have been with us for more than 15 years specially the cooks, with our clients and Boulder is becoming a hard town to open a new business and the feel of private own businesses that add a charm to a town is being erased for less community like big corporations ownership.
Anonymous
Many... Restaurants will struggle to attract workers, who can already make $4 per hour
4/27/2026 11:06 AM
more in Denver. Low-wage workers already do not live here, by and large, as they cannot afford rent. Why will they continue to commute into a town just to be paid less? For those that do reside here, reducing the pay of low-wage workers will increase their need for community safety net services (already strained far beyond capacity) and reduce the amount of money circulating in the local economy.
Anonymous
Tipping is a scourge on society. Restaurants should pay their workers a living wage and
4/27/2026 11:42 AM
have prices that are transparent and reflect the economic reality of restaurants/bars. There should be no offset, and tipping as a practice should decline/disappear. Boulder should also ban fees separate from taxes on bills that reduce price transparency.
Anonymous
Greater burden on some of the lowest paid workers in the city.
4/27/2026 11:48 AM
Anonymous
Boulder is becoming a desert in terms of affordable businesses, mostly because of the
4/27/2026 02:56 PM
high cost of real-estate rental and ownership but also because of high salaries required for basic low-level employment like restaurant staff. With high inflation especially with regards to medical insurance, fuel and any goods that must traverse high tariffs and fuel costs for transport, we are going into a a bit of a deatj spiral where nothing is affordable any more. I believe you should drop the Boulder tipped offset by $1.66 to $12.14 / hour, which is the state tipped minimum, so that independent and start-up restaurants can play on a level playing field, and give the Boulder community back some more affordable restaurants.
Anonymous 4/27/2026 04:13 PM
Anonymous
None. Servers in full service restaurants already make more than kitchen staff, FOH,
4/27/2026 07:08 PM
and most of the owners/managers.
Anonymous
It could negatively impact the workers but if the tips are good it will lesson the impact.
4/27/2026 09:54 PM
Anonymous
None. wait staff will still make enough money for their skill set, which is low. they are
4/27/2026 11:24 PM
essentially unskilled workers.
Anonymous 4/28/2026 04:33 PM
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If employees choose to go elsewhere, we would have to become more creative to make
4/29/2026 03:10 PM
our team happy.
Anonymous 4/30/2026 09:47 AM
Anonymous
It puts more pressure on the public to pay for wages through tips that the owners of the
4/30/2026 10:58 AM
restaurant should be paying. There are already many community members that would like to see tips done away with and people working in restaurants making a living wage. I believe restaurant should move to a new model of charging more for food but paying the employees a living wage out of those prices. The tip model as a way to pay your employees is outdated and can have many restaurant workers struggling to pay bills because of unknown income
Anonymous
Puts further financial strain on the working class as tips are inconsistent and often
4/30/2026 12:15 PM
insufficient given the rising cost of living. Those who are disenfranchised will also likely face difficulty in ensuring and enforcing that their employers are indeed accounting for the baseline minimum wage when tips are insufficient. Wage theft is one of the most widespread and unreported crimes, and increasing the tip offset will enable more missing and stolen wages. It is vital to the well being of our community that local businesses thrive, however, that cannot come at the expense of disempowering the workers that make their existence possible. Furthermore, less money for the workers means less money they have to spend to patronize these local businesses.
Anonymous
It creates a dilemma for operators like us that have committed to whole house tip pool
4/30/2026 12:34 PM
I don’t believe that this survey or the public information educates enough on the differences between employers taking the tip credit or not. It is a complex issue.
We
pay full minimum wage and do not receive money back from the tip credit. It could be a disadvantage for us in our menu pricing. Anonymous
Lower the wages of tipped employees who are already working hard and low pay jobs.
4/30/2026 01:43 PM
How will people be able to afford to live in or even close to the city where they work. If the business are hurting then they should find other ways to improve their revenue or other legislation to make it easier for them, not coming after a small amount in the tip offset where that amount would be more beneficial to the worker.
Anonymous
None. But I understand it may impact workers take home pay. As long as the offset is
4/30/2026 03:00 PM
moderate and in line with inflation and base wage increases the workers shouldn’t see noticeable differences…not nearly as noticeable as the alternative
Anonymous
It will make me less inclined to eat out than I already do (which has already become
4/30/2026 04:48 PM
rare), especially if changing the offset results in employers doing things to make tips mandatory.
Anonymous
None
4/30/2026 07:33 PM
Anonymous
Tipping has gone out of control. Pay workers regular wages and make tips truly
5/01/2026 06:16 AM
optional.
Anonymous
?
5/01/2026 07:18 AM
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I think restaurant employees are some of the most consistent patrons of restaurants,
5/01/2026 08:19 AM
and many studies show most frequently impacted by wage theft. Cutting their wages will result in a less equal society, less potential customers for restaurants, and more crime committed by restaurateurs.
Anonymous
May make dining out slower/inconsistent as it may be harder to recruit and retain
5/01/2026 08:46 AM
restaurant workers
Anonymous
Workers inability to keep up with the cost of living. Costs of everyday necessities have
5/01/2026 08:50 AM
increased so much over the past 5-6 years. We need to support tipped workers and make sure we are standing by our commitment to them and not reverse course. There has been so much talk about wanting workers, specifically restaurant workers who have to drive into work here in Boulder from out of town, to be able to live here. Them affording to live here not only helps them but helps all of us in the community who want to decrease car traffic and the affects that it’s having on destroying our environment. How is lowering their wage growth going to help this?
Anonymous
I’m unsure whether or not there would be negative impacts. I don’t understand why
5/01/2026 09:16 AM
Boulder, or Colorado, or the United States doesn’t do what most European places do and add the 20% gratuity directly to the bill. That would eliminate all confusion.
Anonymous 5/01/2026 02:23 PM
Anonymous
Fewer interesting people able to afford to live in boulder and more employees needing
5/01/2026 04:02 PM
assistance. more $ for businesses owners, many of whom are well off.
Anonymous
I am concerned about maintaining a living wage for people who work in restaurants, and
5/03/2026 11:19 AM
less concerned about rising prices for restaurants.
Anonymous
It will impact everyone who patronizes restaurants or works in them.
5/03/2026 03:23 PM
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I personally would lose money. Every cent matters at this point. Every second I'm
5/04/2026 07:32 AM
clocked in matters. Every cent this city wants to take away from me and other tipped earners feels personal. Cooking is a thankless job sometimes. Some guests are amazing. But most don't even respond when you ask how they're doing, they even cut you off. I'm surprised when guests show the common courtesy of asking how I'M doing. And I appreciate it greatly. Tipped workers have to go above and beyond for every guest, we NEED them to tip us. We do not get the luxury of cherry picking who we are kind to. We're expected to serve our community with a smile on our face, no matter the customer, the tip, the interaction. Tipped workers, especially on Pearl Street, are the backbone of the economy. There would be no one to serve the thousands that come here for graduation, Sundance, Boulder Boulder, Folsom field concerts, etc. I'm deeply hurt, because as the people who serve our community, we feel we should be held at a higher value. We should matter more than the people who own the businesses. The fact that the solution to rising costs and these other issues business owners are facing is to slash employee pay is just disgusting. You can't employee a quality workforce with a slap to the face like that. Other solutions need to be found. I work 45 hours a week, and I still live paycheck to paycheck. My company only offers a small subsidy to help pay for my health insurance, they dont offer it outright. It's 300$ a month. My rent is 2000$. I HAVE to eat at my job every day, because I NEED the free meal. And I'm doing a lot better financially than a lot of folks I know in restaurants. I don't have the added responsibility of children, but a lot do. And I still struggle. I worry about money every day. The wealth disparity in this city does not need to grow. The city needs to take care of the people who make it run. Who make it the place vacationers and travelers want to come to, and return to. We want to serve our community. We just hope the community returns the favor and serves us. Boulder voted on this a year ago. To watch them back pedal is disheartening. WE DESERVE STABILITY!
Anonymous
None
5/04/2026 11:52 AM
Anonymous 5/04/2026 12:34 PM
Anonymous
None.
5/04/2026 01:54 PM
Anonymous 5/06/2026 04:26 PM
Anonymous
I don’t tip so that an employer can claim them. Tips are for employees providing the
5/08/2026 09:31 PM
tipped service. Increasing the offset is wrong and will discourage me from tipping since I won’t be able to ensure that it’s going to the people who provided me the service. It goes against the purpose of tipping if employers can penalize their employees for being tipped
Anonymous
I think it would demoralize a lot of people who are already struggling.
5/10/2026 08:33 PM
Tipping is a relic of slavery. We shouldn’t be basing wages on it. Anonymous
Boulder has lost a substantial number of restaurants in the last decade. Too much
5/10/2026 10:34 PM
increase could accelerate that trend.
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I think it continues to push workers out of Boulder and make it impossible for them to
5/11/2026 07:55 AM
live. Why are asking the question of how we make things cheaper for businesses? Have you asked what owners of restaurants like Dave Query make compared to their lowest paid worker? Maybe you should talk about putting a pay ratio policy in place - why are wages for the working class always on the table but not high pay for owners?
Anonymous
I am not a tipped wage employee, but increasing the tip offset will be a detriment to the
5/11/2026 02:15 PM
community. Service workers will get paid less, which means they can't go out as much , or at all, and contribute to the community. They may even have to move out of the city and commute in, which just puts more strain on the roads and public transportation system. Prices won't come down for customers, so I won't be benefitting. The only people who would benefit are business owners that are already exploiting their essential labor.
Anonymous 5/12/2026 07:18 AM
Anonymous
It would cause me to loose out on more of my money, possibly having to get another job
5/12/2026 07:24 AM
to make ends meet. I would love to live in boulder and not commute to my RESTAURANT job, but it is just not feasible.
Anonymous
None
5/12/2026 07:29 AM
Anonymous
None
5/12/2026 08:15 AM
Anonymous 5/12/2026 08:54 AM
Anonymous 5/12/2026 09:28 AM
Anonymous
None
5/12/2026 10:34 AM
Anonymous
I’m not sure how the tip offset would affect me. I do know that my restaurant is on a tip
5/12/2026 10:37 AM
pool and it doesn’t seem fair. we a splitting tips with the back of the house so that the owners don’t have to pay them hourly wage. by cutting into my tips I have had to make some serious lifestyle changes and it’s made it really hard on me. I think we deserve a raise because of this.
Anonymous
Wont make money during a none busy time of the year. I won’t get my moneys worth
5/12/2026 01:45 PM
because the tips will go elsewhere. Good for the company not so good for the people with inflation going up. It puts more responsibility on the customer rather than the company to make my wages.
Anonymous 5/12/2026 10:53 AM
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Increasing the tip offset reduces the guaranteed base wage that tipped workers can
5/13/2026 09:48 AM
count on. Tips are inconsistent, vary by shift, season, and economic conditions, and are subject to theft. A 2024 Rutgers Workplace Justice Lab study using federal Current Population Survey data found that between 15.4% and 18.6% of waiters and waitresses in the Denver area are already paid below minimum wage in any given year, because employers fail to make up the difference when tips fall short. Boulder's own Office of Human Rights received only three tipping-related inquiries in the past two years — a figure that reflects not the absence of violations but the well-documented barriers that prevent low-wage workers, especially immigrants and workers of color, from filing formal complaints. Widening the offset deepens that risk for the workers already most vulnerable to wage theft. Increasing the tip offset also does nothing for back-of-house workers, who bear the full impact of any restaurant closure but receive no benefit from a lower tipped wage floor. In fact, our community has already seen cases where the interaction between tip pooling rules and the tipped minimum wage left kitchen staff with less compensation than before, while front-of-house workers made more. A higher standard minimum wage is the only mechanism that raises the floor for all restaurant workers. Boulder's affordability crisis is severe. Fifty-nine percent of Boulder County renters are already cost-burdened, and nearly 45% spend more than 40% of their income on housing. The 2024 minimum wage ordinance was adopted unanimously after three years of economic analysis and community engagement specifically to address this crisis. Slowing wage growth for the workers least able to absorb the cost of that crisis, on the basis of an industry-commissioned survey that overstates earnings by nearly half, moves in exactly the wrong direction. The city should hold firm on the existing wage schedule, add a fourth year of 8% growth before reverting to inflation-indexed increases, and direct staff to develop direct support tools for restaurants that do not come at workers' expense.
Anonymous
Being a tipped worker comes with many challenges, including an inability to predict how
5/13/2026 10:12 AM
much you'll make any given shift, and any given month. Not only that, but with increasing costs throughout the nation, especially most recently with costs of living like gas and groceries, the precarity of unstable income increases. By reducing the minimum wage and increasing the tip offset, these tipped workers will begin to suffer and will have less disposable income to participate in our local economy. Why wouldn't we want to ensure that those in our community are able to participate beyond the bare minimum, and have the means to cover their living expenses and go out themselves for dinner once in a while? It seems short sighted to undercut tipped workers to keep restauranteurs flush with cash. The two are symbiotic. Why not look at subsidizing local produce for restaurants, or reducing the rent costs for restaurants, or doing something more systemically helpful vs. making the survival of restaurants dependent upon undercutting the lowest paid individuals in the equation?
Anonymous
It could be a problem with how much money the business is uses to taking in, to pay
5/13/2026 02:15 PM
their employees.
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I am a tipped worker and I see no reason why I deserve to make less of a livable wage
5/13/2026 04:26 PM
just because I work for a restaurant instead of owning a restaurant. If restaurants want good employees, they cannot scare off all the good people by making the cost of living in Boulder so unreasonable than good workers move and work elsewhere. The tipped service industry is one of the main industries that anyone can break into without a degree and simply upon the merits of their hard work. Tipped employees work harder than many desk bound employees and they deserve to make the full hourly wage in addition to tips. If anything, the tip offset should be abolished completely and tipped employees should be paid the same as everyone else. Also the city should mandate that restaurants provide health benefits and paid time off for their employees.
Anonymous
I would make less money and likely be pushed out of boulder
5/14/2026 03:34 PM
Anonymous
I would be unable to pay my bills.
5/15/2026 10:08 AM
Anonymous
It’s hard to afford rent in Boulder
5/15/2026 10:30 AM
Anonymous
Pues que estarían descontando más impuesto
5/15/2026 11:16 AM
Anonymous
Our town relies on service industries to provide the comfortable way of life we maintain.
5/17/2026 10:04 AM
Without well-paid workers who can afford to live locally, our service industries will die, and Boulder's small-town charm will give way to franchised services that look like everywhere else in the country. We can be leaders in making sure our service workers make MORE than the minimum wage. Any adjustment to tip offset that isn't towards $0 tip offset is a betrayal of our fellow community members who work these jobs, Boulder's unique charm, and an exemplar of greed from a city overflowing with money. Any and all reductions to service worker pay is morally wrong, greedy, and short-sighted. If the city wishes to ease the cost of operation of small community businesses, I recommend they rescind the business licenses of competing national-chain stores and reduce the tax they collect from those business owners.
Anonymous
None.
5/17/2026 11:24 PM
I'm in favor of eliminating tips completely and requiring that restaurants pay a fair wage. A restaurant patron is not in the position of determining the compensation of the waitstaff. Bills with an ever-growing laundry list of "service charges" "staff fees" and accompanying nonsense are thinly-veiled methods to increase the management's profits, not the waitstaff. Restaurant owners should set their menu prices as needed and let the market decide if it meeds demand. Waitstaff who rely on tips take a risk -- if they work during a slow shift, they barely get paid. The restaurant owner should take this risk, not the employee. Anonymous 5/18/2026 04:41 AM
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Our community benefits when tipped workers are well compensated, and it is morally
5/18/2026 09:51 AM
right as well. In already hard-to-afford place, we need a workforce that arrives at work healthy, well-rested, and content to continue serving the Boulder community and our out-of-town guests. Reducing the amount that tipped workers are able to earn makes me less likely to eat at restaurants -- I will feel obligated to tip more and resentful that the business involves me in compensating its workers. Charge me more for the meal, that's fine, but take responsibility for your own employees' well-being.
Anonymous
None
5/18/2026 09:59 AM
Anonymous
Restaurant workers are already some of the lowest paid workers in Colorado. Reducing
5/18/2026 04:33 PM
their take-home pay in 2027 by increasing the tipped offset will make some of the most vulnerable in our community even more hard-put.
Anonymous
I would be more forced to support tipped workers in other ways. I would feel worse
5/18/2026 05:11 PM
about my restaurant-working community members. Our community would be more stressed and encumbered by the high cost of living. It would be terrible!
Anonymous
Increasing the tip offset takes away money from those in our community that are already
5/18/2026 05:21 PM
the most vulnerable to the affordability crisis that is affecting working Americans, and especially working Boulderites. I would support a change to the tipped offset in the opposite direction, as in making one unified minimum wage for Boulder to make the lives of our community members more equitable. If there is concern from the business community, the real concern should be directed towards the incredibly high rents that everyone faces and city council should turn their efforts to bring down rents for the businesses, not take money away from workers to alleviate the small margins some of the restaurants in the community are facing. Please consider using a vacancy tax on commercial and residential properties to help all members of our community: the restaurants we love and the people who work there. Increasing the tip offset will only make life harder for people working in our town and does not progress our city towards the inclusive, equitable, and diverse place we all want it to be.
Anonymous
It is a pay cut for all tipped workers in Boulder.
5/19/2026 08:10 PM
Anonymous
This will further push our economic troubles to the most vulnerable. Restaurants are
5/20/2026 08:16 AM
having trouble, but it is not because of the earnings of servers. Lets focus on what is really costing our community, landlords
Anonymous
Maybe services cost a little more but it should off set from the necessary tipping
5/20/2026 12:33 PM
Anonymous 5/20/2026 12:38 PM
Anonymous
Taking more money from residents
5/20/2026 12:45 PM
Anonymous
I won’t eat out
5/21/2026 07:02 AM
Anonymous
People don't make as much in tips.
5/21/2026 10:32 AM
Anonymous 5/21/2026 11:26 AM
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None
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Even more financial strain on Boulder’s essential working class. It is genuinely violent to
5/21/2026 11:35 AM
be cutting wages when we are experiencing historic levels of inflation and economic hardship across our nation. If Boulder wants to market itself as a compassionate, environmentally minded, forward looking city, we need to support our working class, not drive them out of the city. With a decrease in income, folks will be hard pressed to find affordable housing near their place of work, adding commuter pollution to our already stressed atmosphere, decreasing the time these workers spend with their families, which directly impacts childhood development outcomes, and will increase financial stress, which has statistically led to increased domestic violence, increased suicidal thoughts/actions, and emotional distress that is absorbed by community.
Anonymous
Less hourly wage.
5/21/2026 11:56 AM
Anonymous 5/21/2026 12:14 PM
Anonymous
I think that this will heave detramental effects to everyone in Boulder. Wealth inequality
5/21/2026 12:21 PM
is one of the biggest things rotting at the core of Boulder. I do not believe that any more decisions should be ame to intentionally increase the wealth inequality.
Anonymous
None.
5/23/2026 07:49 AM
Anonymous
There are none
5/25/2026 02:07 PM
Anonymous
The negative impacts would be colossal. I am already getting priced out of the area. I
5/25/2026 08:08 PM
have lived and worked here for my whole 32-year life. My family, friends, and small business are all based here. For years I have been part of providing meals for well over 100,000 people in and around Boulder. I have been part of planting, farming, and harvesting; I have transported the food; I have prepared it; and I have provided it directly to my lifelong neighbors who are also getting priced out of being able to eat at restaurants at the same time as the owners are going out of business and the workers can't make ends meet. We're all in the same boat, and even nudging the tip offset isn't a solution at all, because it comes at the direct cost of people who already aren't making enough to live even with tips. We can't expect workers to cover more of the rising costs that are already too high for my parents and me to stay in our intergenerational home, we can't expect tips from community members to increase to cover the difference, and we can't expect small businesses to stay viable as super-corporations drive up all of our local commercial rent and operational overhead. We need to interrupt these cycles upstream of all of us, together, while keeping a high base wage. If a business can't afford to pay its workers enough to stay secure locally, it's not using a viable business model for our area, and Boulder needs to take it seriously that this is becoming such a hostile place to run a business that our local business owners are being asked to consider underpaying us even more each year as costs continue to climb. It's already ridiculously hard to make ends meet in our area, with hardworking people like me having to choose between food, housing, healthcare, transportation and other essentials to decide what to do without each month. The saying really is accurate that we're having to choose between toothbrushes and toothpaste. Workers are being hit by the same absurd costs that are putting so much pressure on our small businesses that they would even consider asking for a higher tip offset so they can stay afloat, and it's
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 pitting us against each other instead of uniting employees and employers in realizing that the costs of space, food, gas, materials, transportation, and so many other things are a shared issue which absolutely cannot be solved by expecting consumers to pay higher tips, which would be the only sustainable option in a scenario where we raise the local tip credit. It's already absurd that compared to much of the world we even allow tipping to be a standard cultural and economic practice in order for our workforce to survive. Even without any tip offset change, the proposed increases to Boulder's minimum wage are still leaving us without enough to get by, because they are disconnected from the real cost of living which is much higher and increasing much faster than the national measures of inflation reflect. Even back in 2022, the Self-Sufficiency Standard for a single healthy adult in Boulder County was already $19.44/hr, with that number allowing for no recreational or emergency spending at all. That number goes up to $54.22/hr as the absolute lowest sustainable wage in Boulder for an adult supporting two young children, again without allowing any budget for fun, emergencies, or recreational spending (https://selfsufficiencystandard.org/wpcontent/uploads/2022/11/CO22_SSS.pdf). The cost of living has gone up drastically in recent years since those numbers were last collected in Boulder (https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2022?amount=1), and our area is seeing much higher costs of living than most of Colorado (https://www.urban.org/datatools/american-affordability-tracker? metric=rent&state=08&district=0802&level=district). We know essential costs like gas, electricity, and food are getting expensive much faster than many other components of inflation, leaving low income community members like me most in the dust even if we let base pay increase as planned without any offset increase, let alone if we consider raising the offset. Prices are already pushing our workforce out of the area at the same time as even the most affordable neighboring counties are seeing higher prices as well, and the cost to commute is compounding at the same time. If Boulder aspires to be a secure place to both work and run a business, we can't pretend we can ignore these costs that are elevating the minimum wage debate in the first place. Restaurants and restaurant workers are both struggling with astronomically high rent and exponentially tightening budgets. Taking from either is not the solution for the other; instead we need to make the city a more affordable place to both run a business and to live while working in one, protecting and continuously increasing a secure and abundant tipped base wage while making sure sustainability is simultaneously able to stay within reach for businesses. Anonymous
N/A
5/26/2026 10:03 AM
Anonymous
Uneducation about the TIP structure for employees
5/26/2026 10:04 AM
Anonymous
I don’t think there would be a negative impact. Everyone who works at out restaurant as
5/26/2026 10:32 AM
it is lives in Boulder and affords rent very well.
Anonymous
The price of going out to eat could go up.
5/26/2026 10:43 AM
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Labor is our biggest expense; and when that base rate increases above the average
5/26/2026 11:30 AM
rate of inflation we struggle to compete without drastically changing our operations. It also makes it difficult for us to provide raises for non-tipped employees which includes management.
Anonymous
N/A
5/26/2026 11:46 AM
Anonymous
Zero. But what really needs to happen for best outcome for all employees is to allow
5/26/2026 12:00 PM
tipped employees to be able to share tips with ANY EMPLOYEE not just those front facing. Why should a server make 2-3 times more than other staff that contribute to the dinners experience. Why are tipped employees who have a natural increase of pay because as menu prices increase(natural inflation) continue to also receive a higher minimum wage every year. That dollar increase could be used to pay back of house more.
Anonymous
We don't see any at this time,
5/26/2026 12:13 PM
Anonymous
None
5/26/2026 01:16 PM
Anonymous 5/26/2026 01:21 PM
Anonymous
There would not be any. Our tipped employees already make three times the minimum
5/26/2026 01:38 PM
wage.
Anonymous
Don't see much since servers already make a living wage
5/26/2026 01:55 PM
Anonymous
I am entirely opposed to increasing the tip offset. It's just picking the pocket of some of
5/26/2026 02:45 PM
the lowest wage workers in Boulder. My friends who are workers in the restaurant industry will struggle to make due with a decreased baseline salary, and they are barely getting by as it is.
Anonymous
I see no negative aspects. I dont think the majority of staff actually notices it.
5/26/2026 03:14 PM
Anonymous
It would upset people who don’t know what my employees make, don’t know what it’s
5/26/2026 05:57 PM
like to run/own a business.
Mh
Over time it will be a small reduction in front of house incomes which, arguably, are
5/26/2026 07:45 PM
artificially high compared with back of house employees.
Anonymous
More poorly paid restaurant, brewery, and coffee shop workers who can’t afford to live
5/26/2026 08:50 PM
near the places they work. Increased traffic into Boulder because even more people have to commute from out of town. Less voting representation of workers in the city because they can’t afford to live there.
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The tip offset should be decreased to $0. Labor is entitled to fair compensation and
5/26/2026 09:22 PM
restaurant owners should not get special dispensation to skirt the minimum wage by passing off the cost of labor to customers. If restaurant owners cannot afford to pay their employees, then they should not be in business. It's beyond absurd that restaurants would get a separate pay structure at any time, but especially so at a time when economic conditions are historically terrible for the lower-income workers who work at restaurants. The people who own restaurants in Boulder complain loudly about the challenges of their businesses, and while we shouldn't discount their complaints, ensuring this small group of people maintains their high personal income by taking money out of the pockets of their employees.
Anonymous
I will make less money
5/27/2026 08:01 AM
Anonymous
You can't go backwards. You've managed to stumble your way into this problem and
5/27/2026 08:54 AM
tweaking the existing structure nominally will do very little. Provide a template for the next evolution. We know through every survey that wages go up, hours get cut for hourly employees and hours get cut for the business. The sales tax decrease should scare you enough to make philosophical shift in what pay system - tipped vs whole house gratuity - that you support. Tips are a losing issue; everyone will vote for higher wages and higher wages will stifle innovation in the restaurant community. The fall of relevance and revenue from our restaurants in the last 10 years should indicate the current direction is not desirable.
Anonymous
Decreasing pay in the middle of rampant inflation is absolutely not the right thing to do!
5/27/2026 08:54 AM
Anonymous
We will have to charge higher prices which will continue the reduction in traffic we have
5/27/2026 11:46 AM
seen in the last 5 years. Our business in Boulder is becoming unsustainable. Our lease is up in 2028, without change to the current tip offset policy we may close.
Anonymous
None
5/27/2026 12:24 PM
Anonymous
See above.
5/27/2026 12:42 PM
Anonymous
I think it is unethical for a business to be able to hire a person at a stated rate and then
5/27/2026 02:09 PM
for that employer to be able to reduce their wages because customers tip them. Tipping culture should be done away with completely, but that is another issue. Get rid of the tip offset. Get rid of the tipped-wage. Everyone should make a living wage, and that currently is far above the sad minimum wage set by state law, but at least far exceeds federal minimum.
Anonymous
None
5/27/2026 07:08 PM
Anonymous
People not being able to afford things
5/27/2026 08:30 PM
Anonymous
Working class People DESERVE a chance to live, recreate and be here in Boulder.
5/27/2026 10:27 PM
With insane costs of living, a very unstable economy, we need to caretake for our people in the service industry.
Anonymous
Lowering income when rent and cost of living are increasing can be detrimental to
5/28/2026 07:40 AM
college students attempting to support themselves
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous 5/28/2026 08:20 AM
Anonymous
None whatsoever. If anything, it incentivizes the employee to work hard for their income
5/28/2026 08:26 AM
instead of a "free" handout from the business just because it's expensive to live here. This move would HELP small, local businesses invest in themselves and not keep owners behind the 8-ball for decision-making that would grow or contribute to the vibrancy of their business. Another point to make is that if costs to run a business in Boulder rise, then the business has to raise prices to keep margins aligned. If this happens all over town, we're not raising the tide for all ships, we're inflating the cost of living in our town and now the tipped worker who also needs to eat, pay rent, and contribute to the community in which they live, also has to pay more to exist in town. We didn't give them a raise large enough to save up and purchase a home here in Boulder (something that will NEVER happen here; too late), but just enough to survive, not thrive. The same cup of coffee that once was $3 is now $6, but the owner of the coffee shop didn't make more money on the sale, they just covered the cost margin to continue to survive as that cup cost is so much higher now than ever before with all the increased business expenses. And that same cup at $6 is still $6 for whomever is purchasing it, a tipped minimum wage worker or a multi-millionaire who lives in their 2nd home in Boulder 3 weeks per year. Help the business owners out in this community by making the cost of doing business here in Boulder more attractive, not by creating greater barriers to entry. This will inevitably make or break the vibracy of a local economy here in town. If it's too difficult to afford to live here, people can't, so the hourly workforce slowly disappears and makes running an establishment requiring hourly workers nearly impossible, therefore diminishing the economic balance of town. We absolutely CANNOT do here in Boulder what Aspen did to their workforce, it will destroy the character and attractiveness of Boulder as a whole.
Anonymous 5/28/2026 08:39 AM
Anonymous
There is no negative impact other than the highest earners in all restaurants are not
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given an automatic increase in their wage every year. Furthermore, their tip percentage is increased almost every year as menu prices have, and will continue to increase as they always have with time and inflation over time.
Anonymous
I think most people pay the least they can and it makes it hard to find good staff.
5/28/2026 08:54 AM
Anonymous
Decreasing hourly wage because of a tip offset creates instability in my life and I am
5/28/2026 08:59 AM
sure in others lives as well. Our hourly is guaranteed, but tips are not. Higher offset could make me unable to pay rent
Anonymous
Refer to the above
5/28/2026 09:53 AM
Anonymous 5/28/2026 10:01 AM
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I would not be able to pay rent, buy groceries or live a comfortable life.
Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous
This would cause us to change our entire business model on tipping. We don't currently
5/28/2026 10:45 AM
tip pool, but this would force us to. And our staff has indicated that they wouldn't work here anymore if we moved in that direction. The national average increase in cost to own a restaurant over the last five years is 35%. That is insane. And it doesn't look like that is going to come down, but if we could decelerate that, everyone could go home happy. The only ways for us to stay on pace and keep our doors open is by increasing menu prices, which we don't want to do. And that only perpetuates inflation in Boulder and costs everyone out of eating Downtown. Things are only going to get more expensive if this goes into affect. And with the low income housing projects that the city is building, these people won't be able to support the local businesses in the area. Every action has a reaction. And this is SIMPLE economics. As costs go up, so do prices until people stop being able to support their favorite businesses.
Anonymous
I cant think of any negative effects. it would not decrease anyone's pay. only increase
5/28/2026 10:19 AM
some team members
Anonymous 5/28/2026 10:21 AM
Anonymous
More unhoused people, less spending in the local economy. More uncertainty with
5/28/2026 10:23 AM
savings and general economic wellbeing.
Anonymous 5/28/2026 10:39 AM
Anonymous
I don't see any, our employees average between $20-50 an hour as is and will always
5/28/2026 11:00 AM
be guaranteed by law to make at least the current minimum wage regardless of tip credit offset amount.
Anonymous
It would be financially devastating to our business. Labor cost is by far our leading
5/28/2026 11:21 AM
expense and further labor charges would result in having to raise prices, which are already higher than they should be due to the extremely high cost of running a business in Boulder
Anonymous
Will have to look at the business model and make drastic changes to my restaurant so I
5/28/2026 11:28 AM
can keep the doors open.
Anonymous
I do not see a negative. Five years ago, we paid $11.80 and hour in the tip pool. Now
5/28/2026 12:01 PM
we pay $13.80 an hour. Our revenue has decreased over those five years, not increased, making it more difficult to do business in Boulder.
Anonymous
None
5/28/2026 12:17 PM
Anonymous
None
5/28/2026 12:23 PM
Anonymous
Our financial situation has already grown worse and worse this year, I am unable to
5/28/2026 01:18 PM
afford gas for my vehicle, and public transportation has been too unreliable for me to make to my scheduled shifts. I am afraid of losing my job due to the cost of living and being forced to completely leave the county where I grew up.
Anonymous
Tipped workers are in the grinder just like folks who work in agriculture, and slaughter
5/28/2026 02:10 PM
houses. I’m lucky that fates and cosmic forces handed me a good deal
Anonymous
Would negatively affect me, will need to find a job outside of boulder
5/28/2026 02:22 PM
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Tip Offset Questionnaire : Survey Report for 12 March 2018 to 02 June 2026 Anonymous
It will hurt the lower paid members of my community. I don't believe in tip offsets and
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