system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How can American restaurants legally pay their servers and delivery drivers less than minimum wage under the assumtion that they might get tips?
gpt
Legally they can't, they're required to make up pay to minimum wage if tips don't cover it. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean they do, and if you insist then they might decide that someone who doesn't earn enough tips is doing a crap job and should be fired.