Your friend would need professional legal advice to get a definite answer on this. Insofar as I know anything about it -- and it's not much -- if she's getting minimum wage she may not have a legal leg to stand on.
Can I suggest that when the bill is brought, she remark that tips go exclusively to management, not to waitstaff, so customers should not feel they need to pay anything beyond the bill itself. That's honest, and if the customers want to tip management, they have the option... but I suspect tips will more or less disappear. |