Voting Yes on 5 is a vote for fairness. In Massachusetts, the tipped minimum wage is only $6.75 an hour - less than half the state’s full minimum wage of $15/hour. This is an unenforceable two-tier system, and wage theft is rampant throughout the restaurant industry with tipped workers not being made whole at the end of a shift. Ending this low-wage carve out positively impacts almost 125,000 tipped workers in Massachusetts, and the restaurant industry as a whole.