Gosh, I wonder what that will do in high-tax states like New York (the city by that name eats out a LOT), and states like Nevada which have a lot of hospitality and food service workers/voters.
I guess the swamp slugs in congress eat out a lot
Not much border security, but plenty of fine dining security
When I lived in New York State, I tipped on the basis of the food bill, but not on the added taxes.
Jail anyone who skims tips a minimum of 5 year or summarily shoot them at dawn.
Wait staff are your sales people and should be justly rewarded for upselling customers as well for giving them a reason return
Nothing like a middle of the night tipping thread on FR!! Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead! LOL...
The part I haven’t figured out in the article was I had it in my head that those not actually waiting on customers had to be paid at least the standard minimum wage, not the lower minimum wage of a server. I really don’t get how the employer can set up tip pooling to augment pay in the kitchen and dish pit. It seems a base operational cost/concept that a restaurant will require competent kitchen help to have food that attracts diners. Thus, they also need a steady supply of clean service items plus clean cooking implements provided by a staff that busses tables and runs the dishwasher, etc. Using money given by customers, ostensibly to Server Susie, to pay Jorge in the dish pit is just out of line, IMO. And I’ve worked a dish pit and as a line cook so I’m not just talking out of my hind parts, either.
For the government to say where the tip goes, the government is acting like they are the owner of the tip.
From a property rights point of view, when was the control of the property conceded to the government?
Many owners have long sought to boost the pay of kitchen workers and bussers by forcing servers to share their tips...
Hey, here's an idea! Pay your kitchen workers and bussers more!
I thought most tips were shared among the entire staff.
I also had explained to me once in an ethnic restaurant that the workers were endentured servants
That’s an unenforceable advisory not a law unless there’s a penalty if they refuse to comply . Even then it may wind up in court.
In my experience, kitchen staff are paid an hourly wage starting at minimum wage, while servers are paid only a couple of bucks an hour as tipped employees. Asking tipped employees to share their tips with non tipped employees is wrong. Personally, I would rather do away with tipping.
“pooling tips is a good way to”
reward lazy, less efficient employees with the hard work of the productive.
This is about wait staff, NOT the kitchen staff.
Back in the early 80s I worked in a restaurant in which the owner charged back 5% of the tips on Amex cards because that was her cost to allow patrons to use Amex.