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Originally Posted by Roderek
This is not correct, leaving a cash tip can help them circumvent tax as if they get audited the government goes through debit/credit card slips to determine average tip % for them.
A server tips out to the kitchen/bussers/hostess/bartenders based on there total sales. so if a server rings out $1500 in there shift, they tip out 3-5% to the kitchen/bussers/hostess's etc. if the server made 15% the server made $225 in tips and at 5% tipped out 75 to tip pool for everyone else. Leaves the Server with $150 in tips. a shift is about 4-6 hours on average so at 6 hours the server made $25/hr tips and $15 per hour wage=$40.00/hr.
That 3-5% to the kitchen and support staff works out to about $2-$4/hour on top of there $15-$18 wage so an average of 17-22/hr for the cook/busser/hostess etc.
If you do not tip your waitress on a $150 bill then he/she will have to pay the tip pool the 3-5% so $7.50 to have served you.
A server is never really making minimum wage, and in all honesty did not need an increase in wage. Restaurants need to make up that lost income, so they have less servers on less cooks on.
The restaurant also increases there menu prices to help offset the new cost, which everyone ends up paying.
The increase should not have been applied to restaurants that serve Alcohol, or at least not the whole increase.
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Talked to a waitress I know. Since the min wage increase her tip out was increased to 7.5%. And like you said its based on what she rang through the till....not on what she actually got.....doesn't matter......if someone tips her 5% on a big tab, she's on the hook for 2.5% of that tab.
The tip out increase (2.5% of tab) goes to the "management" and if she objects......she's out of a job. Wanna bet that out of the other 5%, the kitchen staff only seen half???
She indicated that she is actually taking less home now.....her wages have gone up but, customers are tipping lower and the management skim is higher equating to less overall for her.
Its a zero sum game when no additional value has been created....only a XXX fool would think otherwise.