Posted on 06/05/2014 9:39:21 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Not only that, if the customer walks out without paying the bill, the cost of the meal comes out of the server's own pay........
I accidentally walked out of a bar without paying my meal and bar tab one night. When I woke up the following morning and realized what I had done, I was devastated and embarrassed all day and couldn't wait to get back that evening and make it right.
The waitress was there and she said that one of the other people I was with took care of it for me........That was a big relief.
You really do not understand the restaurant business. There is no line cook, chef (of any variety) or kitchen staff who is paid LESS than servers and waiters.
I guess you too are one of those who buy the idea of ‘income equality’....look at other systems and countries who have tried that. Better yet look at the civil service system...that tells you all you need to know
I don’t give a crap about income inequality
“There is no law that says you cannot tip the kitchen staff if you so choose.”
Exactly. I like to eat at a few places where kitchen staff get tipped heavily. I’ve seen $100 bills be handed out for kitchen staff that are amazing. There was this place called Saffron’s that was simply amazing for food. At Christmas, the extra tipping was rather rich and well deserved.
Reservoir Dogs
My daughter waitress-ed all the way through college. Here is what she told me. BTW, she never asked for any money the whole four years.
- She was very good. Made more in tips than any other waitress. She averaged $15-$17 an hour in 2000.
- She shared tips with the busboys and cooks (when deserved of course). Guess whose tables always had the best food and service?
- She often stayed after closing and helped bus tables and sometimes assisted in the kitchen
- She rarely said no when called to fill in for someone on short notice
- The lazy, selfish waitresses, first out of the door at night / never shared or volunteered anything, could never figure out why she made so much more money than they. And why she was so much more well liked by most of the staff.
When she graduated from college her people skills were very impressive. She learned to deal with every kind of person one can imagine. The waitress-ing years paid major life skills dividends.
Her only complaint was that because she carried gobs of small bills, occasionally someone would ask if she was a “dancer”. That used to get her mad.
Although it’s an imperfect analogy, I compare it to working piecework. Which I did building frames in a furniture plant in college and building fence sections for a fence mfg. Busted my butt like you wouldn’t believe.
Just about EVERY TIME we talk about Hank Johnson.
There ya go. The restaurant where I worked for 3 yrs. paid the cooks very very well plus benefits. the waiters/waitresses got less than minimum wage and had to depend on tips to make up the difference. No benefits.
I tip 20% if the service is good. If it isn’t, I deduct accordingly.
and so why won’t you tip? or is it that you never eat out? or that you never eat out at any place other than Zax’s or McDonald’s pr Wendy’s or Hardees or maybe Captain D’s??
Mt H.S. age grandaughter earns between $75 to $100 every Saturday and Sunday serving breakfast and lunch.
The location makes a big difference.
Good luck to your daughter.
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Most people don’t realize how low and tenuous a wait staffs income is. The wait staff pays the difference if you make a mistake on a bill too. Most people assume that the restaurant/bar eats the loss.
Do they refuse to go to the hospital if they’re sick because the surgeon makes more than the janitor?
I tended bar for a number of years, and while servers weren’t required to share their tips, if I worked the service bar and they didn’t, they could freeze in hell before they got any drinks from me. I shut out one particlarly nasty waitress once, and she was forced to spend her next shift walking clear across the crowded bar to the other service rail because I refused to work her orders.
I would imagine the kitchen staff in a decent restaurant could make life equally miserable for a selfish waitress.
What???!!! Surgeons make more than janitors??? DAMMIT! What is this world coming to!!???
Thank you!
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