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Originally posted by DJ Tranzit
moral of the story here..
i work in retail.. i don't serve food or drinks, but i do something very very similar.. i don't get tipped... (ok.. once).. i don't complain.. i was getting paid minimum wage, and i busted my ass off just like food industry people do..
now look at it in another perspective..
do the greeters/cooks/bus boys make tips? no...
just the wait staff and the bartenders...
do the bartenders make tips when they mix a drink, and a waitress serves them? no..
see.. it's all in the wait staff...
personally.. i think they SHOULD get some type of a tip... although i think MANY of them are greedy...
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Have you actually ever worked in a restaurant? I have been in the service industry for years and years and every single restaurant I have ever worked at have all required wait staff to "tip out" to the bussers, cooks, hostesses and bartenders. Usually, it's 1% of your total sales for the night, usually a dollar for every 100 dollars in food sales on your final read of the night. Some places will take the 1% and then divide up all of the "tip outs" among the bussers, cooks, etc...however a few places I've worked at made me tip out seperately to everyone. Now you figure a dollar per hundred you sell to about 6 or 7 people, on a regular basis, that cuts into your tips right there. I had nights at the last place I worked where I ended up tipping out over 25 bucks before I left even when I may have only made 40 or 50 bucks in tips...It isn't a percentage of your tips, it's a percentage of what you sold. So again, those in charge are ASSUMING that customers are actually tipping what they should be when most times, the average tip is usually 10% not the 15% it should be. I think tipping out is a great idea, cuz the bussers, hostesses, and cooks etc dont' come into direct contact with the customers so they dont' have an opportunity to get tips, and they do alot of work and make the servers' jobs easier alot of the times.
But don't say that servers are greedy and no one else gets anything...even if they aren't getting tipped out by the servers, the hostesses, bussers, cooks, and bartenders make more per hour than the servers. I had a cook make more than me when I was MANAGING a restaurant so I dont' wanna hear them complain to me about not getting tips. THEY are gettin 7-8-9 dollars an hour, whereas a server gets under 6...