Look for a sudden rise in server openings at le pigeon despite how happy and on board they supposedly are with this.

Not all servers make 75000 a year at trendy places. Most of us struggle to get by same as our back of house colleagues.

If your bosses offered to cut the salary you've been building your craft for years at to split it more equitably, offering you less control and asking you to trust that they would give you a raise as they saw fit how pleased would you be?

Good service is a craft honed over years and creates its own market. If cooks are being treated unfairly they have the opportunity to go elsewhere or pursue front of house work or a different line of work altogether.

Or better yet why don't the owners of lepigeon cut into their profits and pay their staff with that?

Stop going after money meant for service and pay your workers.