Not enforced doesn’t mean legal. You said they legally can be paid that rate. They cannot legally be paid that. Full stop.

I do agree that “tipped minimum wage” shouldn’t be a thing and they should just be tied to the standard minimum wage.

It’s averaged out across a pay period, and in my twenty plus years in the service industry I’ve never heard of a server making less than minimum wage. They’re generally the highest-paid employees on a per hour basis.

The group of people who benefit the most from tipping are the servers.

Stick to topics you actually know something about.