I worked for a short time as a waitress 25 yrs ago and only made $2.10 an hr no matter how much my tips where, which sucked cause it was a Mexican restaurant and if you weren't Mexican most of the customers didn't tip for sh*t.
HAHAHA! Businesses don’t employ undocumented immigrants either! It’s illegal… No one in the service industry can afford that. Business owners KNOW that. 😂😂😂 you really think waiters are out here suing their employers/restaurants?? I’m so dead.
Undocumented immigrants work in America. Employers don’t pay out minimum wage to tipped employees just bc they “have” to. I’m literally laughing out loud rn.
Thank you for explaining this to all the dumb people. Tbh, you know you are a shitty server if you don't make good tips. Period. Your tips are based on YOUR SERVICE AND PERSONALITY your money will literally show you who you are. If I was willing to learn another menu and deal with abusive management I'd go work at a restaurant again in a heartbeat.
Wow! It must be where I live that makes the difference because where I live you make hourly rate and your tips reflect how good you are at your job. Waitresses is what I know.
Speaking for Maui here, wait staff make over 30 an hour plus tips. They are not required to share their tips at all. This means the people at the front that greet you are the lowest paid, the cooks and clean up staff are paid better but the wait staff are the ones who are getting rich. They make often 100 or more an hour. Many make 250 an hour with tips. Those people in the front that you yell at if not seated fast enough they get only hourly pay. They have high turnover.
Most of this is true put tipping has gone down it's not the same as it used to be people don't tip for the right reasons anymore and most people don't tip
I've worked many places that were waitressing. At the end of my shift i had to put in how much i made in tips. You are right. If i didn't make enough in tips then they paid the difference. But i almost always ended my shift with almost $180 on tips a day, 5 days a week.
Yep, and people need to look up the show “Adam Ruins Everything” specifically the episode where he talks about the history of tips. Customers do not owe servers any tips. It is not the customers responsibility to compensate the servers low pay with tips. Restaurants use tipping for a way to pay servers low pay, but the restaurant can, and should pay a descent wage, keep prices low, and still make money. I know this cause I’ve worked in the service industry, and my sister owned a pizza restaurant. Do not expect a tip from any customer, and be great-full, and respectful for any tips the customer gives, even if it’s only $.50 cents from a grandma. If you cannot handle this truth, then you need not work in the service industry. Find a new career.
True, the law requires you to pay minimum wage. However, some states set a different minimum wage for tipped employees. Ohio sets minimum wage at $10.70. Tipped employees' minimum wage is set at $5.35. If you are wondering about my qualifications, I am an accountant who does payroll. Plus, the federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13. Look up the regulations they are available online.
As a tipped employee for decades and while this is technically true but MANY places do not adhere to this rule. If its a small company or local, you can't count on that or the IRS catching them . I said what I said!
I don’t make minimum wage and I am a waitress in NJ. I believe now I get paid 5 bucks and hour plus tips Maybe we should make minimum wage but we definitely don’t. I work in a diner. Hell for years we made 2.15 an hour . lol it’s a privately owned diner so maybe those rules don’t apply. On top of that we have to tip out our bus boy based on our sales so if a table doesn’t tip at all we are literally paying to wait on them. It sounds crazy but true.
This is a precursor to drop tipping altogether without raising the minimum hourly rate for servers, etc. Japan doesn't have tipping ( they consider it an insult to try and tip) and I can see a time when government tries to do away with it here. But servers in Japan are paid a livable wage. 😮
I worked as a waitress in the mid 70’s. My hourly wage was 90 cents an hour. It was a small family owned restaurant, and we were happy if we received a dollar from a table as a tip. When I joined the military in the early 80’s, I was excited because I made $500+ a month… a big raise for me. I understand what you’re saying
That’s some California bullshit. It’s not that way across the country. I worked for tips and 2.10 per hour. The restaurant and bars I worked for never kept kept track of out tips to compensate us if we fell below a certain limit.
Oh next do the explanation of delivery driver for say pizza hut. When i left i made minimium wage in store i think it was 7.25 an hour but when i went on the road it was $3 less an hour. They charged 2.50 for delivery but we got .33 a mile. The computer determined the miles not the actual mileage we drove alot of times 10 to 20 miles less than we drove. Delivery fee went back to the store. One day i did the math and what they profited between deliver fee and my milleage payout covered my pay check. Job wasnt worth drove 2 vehicles in to the ground and customers were mostly horrible towards us. Plus the joy of having a gun pulled on me after a delivery and the company didnt even send an advocate for court. Plus i was only one punished cause i got written up for fighting back. I never got a good look at dudes face so no one was convicted.
So I have what I feel like is an odd question. I have a friend – an actual friend who is not me, which is probably why I dont know. What about after wages are garnished? Does the person still have to make minimum wage after the garnishment for that to take effect? Or are they just screwed? Where he works, he makes over $1000 a paycheck and only has a couple hundred after garnishment from what I've been told. Please dont be mean, I'm genuinely asking.
New Mexico is $2 and something witch is bullshit they should not be able to determine your tips as part of your wage your wage needs to be at least minimum wage if not higher, and whoever deems you deserve a tip. Then you deserve a tip that should not be taxed that should not be part of your hourly wage that is a tip because the person you served enjoyed your service
Very true, in i was in college working at Sonic. i made tips, and some days, it was less than 10, but there were days i made more in tips, and then i did working on the clock. This was back in 2001.
This is very true just to bad that is not what happens. With that said if my server sucks his or her tip will suck. If they do good i will tip well over the recommended tip
We didn't even make the $2.13…and NO, the restaraunt doesn't pay you, they force you to claim a certain % of tips whether you make it or not. Quinn…you are good on a lot of stuff but you are being a moron on this one. Note I loved making 50-60/hr and not claiming anything but my 8% but your premise here is backwards.
Here in Oregon all servers make the same amount of money you get minimum wage plus tip everybody gets tips everybody gets minimum wage everybody gets paid the same all everywhere servers do not get paid $2.50 an hour they get paid whatever our state minimum wage is plus tip so here in Oregon they do make a lot of money
I know some who make $20 an hour behind the bar plus tips. Key word behind the bar, bartenders generally get paid more because it’s not just the tips it’s the craft of the job, if they are a mixologist (they didn’t work behind a bar a learn to make basic drinks and cocktails) they went to school for it and are professionals, they are the people who can tell you the difference taste and notes of a drink and they normally get tipped well also since they are normally providing a service to a higher quality of drinkers. Find a place with mixologist and go in and see if you can trip those people up on a drink(not some home concoction) but a real drink that’s rare! Good luck
YES! I've done payroll for ages, and I get so sick of trying to explain this to people. My tipped employees always seemed to understand it, it's just everyone else who struggled with it. 😅
To a point you're very correct. The waffle house i worked at did not count your tips at all. Im almost certain that was illegal. Also, you don't take in to account that the poor server also has to tip out to the bar, kitchen, and bussers, and some places also make them tip out the hostess too. Which is total BS if you ask me.
I got fired because no matter what i did i was pd 1.25. Min wage was 6.50. And it was a very small restaurant. The bosses MIL would ru.n around taking orders the putting the orders in and got the drinks ….butttt when the food came out she went off to chat with the customers. Rarely took the food out to her tables …guess who had to do her job along with my job.
He's so right on. His math is correct. $20 an hour for fastfood employees in CA messed everything up for all servers in CA. Now they wannt tips on top of that! NO!
Every time I was a server/ bartender I NEVER expected to receive a paycheck because I also made my money. That money is taxes like everything else. Servers complaining about not having a check over $2.13 an hour just don't get it and should move on.
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Because minimum wage is survival….. yeah still not acceptable
You should be paid minimum wage plus tips not if your tips equal minimum wage in Oregon we get our minimum wage plus any tips
I worked as a waitress in the early 80's and all we were paid was less than $2 an hour. That's it.
I worked for a short time as a waitress 25 yrs ago and only made $2.10 an hr no matter how much my tips where, which sucked cause it was a Mexican restaurant and if you weren't Mexican most of the customers didn't tip for sh*t.
HAHAHA! Businesses don’t employ undocumented immigrants either! It’s illegal… No one in the service industry can afford that. Business owners KNOW that. 😂😂😂 you really think waiters are out here suing their employers/restaurants?? I’m so dead.
Undocumented immigrants work in America. Employers don’t pay out minimum wage to tipped employees just bc they “have” to. I’m literally laughing out loud rn.
That is not the case in the state of TN. I was a server and bartender for many years.
Thank you for explaining this to all the dumb people. Tbh, you know you are a shitty server if you don't make good tips. Period. Your tips are based on YOUR SERVICE AND PERSONALITY your money will literally show you who you are. If I was willing to learn another menu and deal with abusive management I'd go work at a restaurant again in a heartbeat.
Wow! It must be where I live that makes the difference because where I live you make hourly rate and your tips reflect how good you are at your job. Waitresses is what I know.
Speaking for Maui here, wait staff make over 30 an hour plus tips. They are not required to share their tips at all. This means the people at the front that greet you are the lowest paid, the cooks and clean up staff are paid better but the wait staff are the ones who are getting rich. They make often 100 or more an hour. Many make 250 an hour with tips. Those people in the front that you yell at if not seated fast enough they get only hourly pay. They have high turnover.
Most of this is true put tipping has gone down it's not the same as it used to be people don't tip for the right reasons anymore and most people don't tip
I've worked many places that were waitressing. At the end of my shift i had to put in how much i made in tips. You are right. If i didn't make enough in tips then they paid the difference. But i almost always ended my shift with almost $180 on tips a day, 5 days a week.
Yep, and people need to look up the show “Adam Ruins Everything” specifically the episode where he talks about the history of tips. Customers do not owe servers any tips. It is not the customers responsibility to compensate the servers low pay with tips. Restaurants use tipping for a way to pay servers low pay, but the restaurant can, and should pay a descent wage, keep prices low, and still make money. I know this cause I’ve worked in the service industry, and my sister owned a pizza restaurant. Do not expect a tip from any customer, and be great-full, and respectful for any tips the customer gives, even if it’s only $.50 cents from a grandma. If you cannot handle this truth, then you need not work in the service industry. Find a new career.
True, the law requires you to pay minimum wage. However, some states set a different minimum wage for tipped employees. Ohio sets minimum wage at $10.70. Tipped employees' minimum wage is set at $5.35. If you are wondering about my qualifications, I am an accountant who does payroll. Plus, the federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13. Look up the regulations they are available online.
As a tipped employee for decades and while this is technically true but MANY places do not adhere to this rule. If its a small company or local, you can't count on that or the IRS catching them . I said what I said!
Not always tru, there are sly managers who does shady sh*t
I don’t make minimum wage and I am a waitress in NJ. I believe now I get paid 5 bucks and hour plus tips Maybe we should make minimum wage but we definitely don’t. I work in a diner. Hell for years we made 2.15 an hour . lol it’s a privately owned diner so maybe those rules don’t apply. On top of that we have to tip out our bus boy based on our sales so if a table doesn’t tip at all we are literally paying to wait on them. It sounds crazy but true.
This is a precursor to drop tipping altogether without raising the minimum hourly rate for servers, etc. Japan doesn't have tipping ( they consider it an insult to try and tip) and I can see a time when government tries to do away with it here. But servers in Japan are paid a livable wage. 😮
I worked as a waitress in the mid 70’s. My hourly wage was 90 cents an hour. It was a small family owned restaurant, and we were happy if we received a dollar from a table as a tip. When I joined the military in the early 80’s, I was excited because I made $500+ a month… a big raise for me. I understand what you’re saying
This may be true, the problem is workers not knowing their rights and getting taken advantage of because of shady businesses owners.
That’s some California bullshit. It’s not that way across the country. I worked for tips and 2.10 per hour. The restaurant and bars I worked for never kept kept track of out tips to compensate us if we fell below a certain limit.
Oh next do the explanation of delivery driver for say pizza hut. When i left i made minimium wage in store i think it was 7.25 an hour but when i went on the road it was $3 less an hour. They charged 2.50 for delivery but we got .33 a mile. The computer determined the miles not the actual mileage we drove alot of times 10 to 20 miles less than we drove. Delivery fee went back to the store. One day i did the math and what they profited between deliver fee and my milleage payout covered my pay check.
Job wasnt worth drove 2 vehicles in to the ground and customers were mostly horrible towards us. Plus the joy of having a gun pulled on me after a delivery and the company didnt even send an advocate for court. Plus i was only one punished cause i got written up for fighting back. I never got a good look at dudes face so no one was convicted.
So I have what I feel like is an odd question. I have a friend – an actual friend who is not me, which is probably why I dont know. What about after wages are garnished? Does the person still have to make minimum wage after the garnishment for that to take effect? Or are they just screwed? Where he works, he makes over $1000 a paycheck and only has a couple hundred after garnishment from what I've been told.
Please dont be mean, I'm genuinely asking.
New Mexico is $2 and something witch is bullshit they should not be able to determine your tips as part of your wage your wage needs to be at least minimum wage if not higher, and whoever deems you deserve a tip. Then you deserve a tip that should not be taxed that should not be part of your hourly wage that is a tip because the person you served enjoyed your service
Very true, in i was in college working at Sonic. i made tips, and some days, it was less than 10, but there were days i made more in tips, and then i did working on the clock. This was back in 2001.
Unless you're a 1099
How do you know how much they made if tips are cash?
This is very true just to bad that is not what happens. With that said if my server sucks his or her tip will suck. If they do good i will tip well over the recommended tip
We didn't even make the $2.13…and NO, the restaraunt doesn't pay you, they force you to claim a certain % of tips whether you make it or not. Quinn…you are good on a lot of stuff but you are being a moron on this one. Note I loved making 50-60/hr and not claiming anything but my 8% but your premise here is backwards.
Where I live the minimum wage is $18.81. Don't inflict poverty on your workers because you are a cheap business person.
Absolutely true. I was making $3 an hour but clearing an average of about 600 a wk. My tips equalled way more than the hourly job I worked.
Here in Oregon all servers make the same amount of money you get minimum wage plus tip everybody gets tips everybody gets minimum wage everybody gets paid the same all everywhere servers do not get paid $2.50 an hour they get paid whatever our state minimum wage is plus tip so here in Oregon they do make a lot of money
My friend works at a restaurant he got lucky cause he gets hourly pay and his tips
Was law always like that or was it adjusted years ago to this?
I'll say it. I'd rather work for $12-$15/ hour…..waiting tables terrifies me
Um…..7.25 an hour hasn't been enough to live on for a LONG time…
I know some who make $20 an hour behind the bar plus tips. Key word behind the bar, bartenders generally get paid more because it’s not just the tips it’s the craft of the job, if they are a mixologist (they didn’t work behind a bar a learn to make basic drinks and cocktails) they went to school for it and are professionals, they are the people who can tell you the difference taste and notes of a drink and they normally get tipped well also since they are normally providing a service to a higher quality of drinkers. Find a place with mixologist and go in and see if you can trip those people up on a drink(not some home concoction) but a real drink that’s rare! Good luck
YES! I've done payroll for ages, and I get so sick of trying to explain this to people. My tipped employees always seemed to understand it, it's just everyone else who struggled with it. 😅
You are so wrong, tipped employees, for the most part, are not paid minimum wage. You have this very weary wrong.
To a point you're very correct. The waffle house i worked at did not count your tips at all. Im almost certain that was illegal. Also, you don't take in to account that the poor server also has to tip out to the bar, kitchen, and bussers, and some places also make them tip out the hostess too. Which is total BS if you ask me.
I got fired because no matter what i did i was pd 1.25. Min wage was 6.50. And it was a very small restaurant. The bosses MIL would ru.n around taking orders the putting the orders in and got the drinks ….butttt when the food came out she went off to chat with the customers. Rarely took the food out to her tables …guess who had to do her job along with my job.
He's so right on. His math is correct. $20 an hour for fastfood employees in CA messed everything up for all servers in CA. Now they wannt tips on top of that! NO!
A lot of people know this but tell your employer they are covering difference good luck
I am so glad I live in Australia we do not tips over here because our minimum wage is responsible fair, and you can live off it. Just
Every time I was a server/ bartender I NEVER expected to receive a paycheck because I also made my money. That money is taxes like everything else. Servers complaining about not having a check over $2.13 an hour just don't get it and should move on.