Force employers to pay their employees properly? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.......

In a restaurant I would tip 5 bucks on 35 dollars,,

so who gets the VAT then...the government...doesnt sound quite fair,,snooping around I found UK wages for wait staff..not as high as you say but more than is paid here..

Waiter/Waitress Salary

The average pay for a Waiter/Waitress is £6.10 per hour. Most people move on to other jobs if they have more than 10 years' experience in this career. Pay for this job rises steadily for more experienced workers, but goes down noticeably for the few employees with more than 20 years' experience.

Average eh... hmm, I should have been more specific. The bar manager at an awesome pub I tended at in the early 2000's was from Edinburgh. He stayed in Canada for a couple of years before returning because the money in food and beverage sucks here, he never received a tip in Scotland, but was paid 15p/hr to run the bar. His servers and tenders got 10p/hr.

He said the quid was even bigger in some area of London, but much worse in others. But salaries always kept in line with a living wage for the area, always. I should Facebook that old crotchety bugger... memories