Edgewater boosts tip credit to restrain restaurant costs

Edgewater boosts tip credit to restrain restaurant costs

Edgewater on Tuesday became Colorado’s first city to take advantage of a new state law allowing it to increase its minimum wage without automatically pulling up the lower wage collected by tipped workers. The state law, which took effect in June, allows municipal governments that set their own minimum wages to create a bigger pay gap among restaurant positions — typically front of the house vs. back of the house — than the difference set by the …