Do you enjoy sitting down in a comfortable booth at a full-service restaurant where a friendly server greets you, explains the menu, brings you a beverage, refills your water glass and delivers a delicious meal?

Do you enjoy being served after working hard all day? Do you enjoy it when, for under $20, you can relax, share time with friends and family, and let somebody else do all the work?

Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but with a $15 minimum wage with no tip credit for servers and bartenders, you'll have to kiss this experience goodbye.

If the proposed Minneapolis minimum wage ordinance is approved, you will be left with two options: Chipotle or Oceanaire. You will either have to queue up in a cafeteria line or shell out $100 for a full-service restaurant experience.

But it doesn't really matter what I say, or what any of my peers in the midrange restaurant community say. It appears the die has already been cast.

Our only options will be to retool to a cafeteria model or ride out our leases and say goodbye to the style of restaurant we so adore. It will also mean saying goodbye to all of the fantastic servers and bartenders we have had the pleasure of working with over the years.

Operating a restaurant in this niche is more difficult than any non-restaurateur could possibly know. The margins are razor thin, and they would be totally eclipsed by an additional $6 an hour for tipped employees — all of whom already make well above $15 an hour.

If you have never pored over your books and lain awake at night wondering how you are going to make payroll, then you don't understand how this restaurant game works. We operators work our tails off with very little reward these days. Much of what profit we generate is used to reinvest in the business or pay down debt.

All I can say is, thank you, Minneapolis for the pleasure of serving you for these past 30 years, giving you full service without picking your pocket.

If you have enjoyed this type of restaurant experience and would like to see it continue, contact your City Council member and demand a tip credit for any future minimum wage increases.

They are not listening to us.

Charles Lodge is an owner of Ginger Hop Restaurant in Minneapolis.