"Throw it away. I don't want it at all. I really hope nobody really wants it, especially for someone who works in a restaurant or has anything to do with one," said Blue Top Waffle Shop Waitress, Carol Luevano.
She is concerned that Senate bill 2106 would mean less money in her pocket.
"Why not just go to school and do what you need to do and make twice that instead of making twice as much as you need to do and make less," she added.
This proposal would allow restaurants to pay servers the current federal tipped minimum wage of $2.13 in exchange guarantee they'd make $10 dollars an hour including both for a wages and tips. That's 130 percent more than the state's current minimum wage of $7.67 for all workers.
But Luevano says she often makes more than ten an hour.
"I don't know what I'd do with ten dollars an hour year round...I wouldn't have half the stuff I have," said Luevano.
Statewide, critics say this is a business move to slash wages for workers at the bottom of the pay scale.
If a server's tips and wages worked out to $10 at the end of the week—they'd only make $2.13 an hour. Right now, they make $4.65 an hour in addition to tips. That's a pay cut of $2.52 an hour.
News of this bill sparked conversation Friday morning among restaurant goers.
"I don't think that's right because for all these people here, it's nothing but tourists and they depend on their tips all the time. Then when spring break comes, this is where they make their money," said a restaurant goer.
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