LogFAQs > #889138766

LurkerFAQs, Active DB, DB1, Database 2 ( 09.16.2017-02.21.2018 ), DB3, DB4, DB5, DB6, DB7, DB8, DB9, DB10, DB11, DB12, Clear

Topic List	Page List: 1
Topic	So tips are how waiters make their money?
Mike_Stanton 10/25/17 6:31:23 PM #11:	MabusIncarnate posted... Mike_Stanton posted... MabusIncarnate posted... They essentially get paid $1.80 an hour. If their tips don't match federal minimum wage, the restaurant they work for pays them minimum wage for the hours worked. This is how it's supposed to be. Some places you don't report your tips at all, some combine them all and split them evenly. Some have to report all tips and have them taxed. The average weekly paycheck from their employer is literally about $15 to $35 a week, again, depending on how they run things. They do not make minimum wage pay on top of tips, they only get minimum wage pay if the tips don't exceed that weekly wage. So in other words, if you don't tip them then they get paid just as much as other minimum wage workers? If it's a collective effort from other non-tipping customers, yes. This goes for corporate chains only. Family owned businesses don't have to agree to these standards. If you have a server that works 40 hours and gets fucked that week and only makes $87 in tips, it's too bad for them, that's what they get on top of their tiny pay check. But if nobody tipped then it's not like they would fire everybody. Same goes for if none of the waiters get any tips. Do you really think the managers are going to screw everyone that hard? They have to create incentives for work, so if the typical standard for tipping were to change then restaurant owners would have to keep up in order to make sure people will want to work for them. This is the same reason why there shouldn't be a minimum wage at all. --- RIP Butters_1188 2005-2009 Prove me wrong <cite>Mike_Stanton posted [p:889138766] in So tips ar... [t:75916762]...</cite> <quote><cite>MabusIncarnate posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Mike_Stanton posted...</cite> <quote><cite>MabusIncarnate posted...</cite> <quote>They essentially get paid $1.80 an hour. If their tips don't match federal minimum wage, the restaurant they work for pays them minimum wage for the hours worked. This is how it's supposed to be. Some places you don't report your tips at all, some combine them all and split them evenly. Some have to report all tips and have them taxed. The average weekly paycheck from their employer is literally about $15 to $35 a week, again, depending on how they run things. They do not make minimum wage pay on top of tips, they only get minimum wage pay if the tips don't exceed that weekly wage.</quote> So in other words, if you don't tip them then they get paid just as much as other minimum wage workers?</quote> If it's a collective effort from other non-tipping customers, yes. This goes for corporate chains only. Family owned businesses don't have to agree to these standards. If you have a server that works 40 hours and gets fucked that week and only makes $87 in tips, it's too bad for them, that's what they get on top of their tiny pay check.</quote> But if nobody tipped then it's not like they would fire everybody. Same goes for if none of the waiters get any tips. Do you really think the managers are going to screw everyone that hard? They have to create incentives for work, so if the typical standard for tipping were to change then restaurant owners would have to keep up in order to make sure people will want to work for them. This is the same reason why there shouldn't be a minimum wage at all. --- RIP Butters_1188 2005-2009 Prove me wrong</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Topic List	Page List: 1