Comment · Tue, December 18, 2012
My gf got stuck with the closing shift and then BOOM, the karma police showed up.
What they were answering
ferrarisnowday · 1 points
I pretty much agree with you, just a couple of points.
$65/hour isn't accounting for slow days, short shifts, and the probable total lack of benefits. It's still a lot though, compared to cooks, retail, cashier, and fast food workers. Server's earnings can vary wildly, both from day to day and from server to server.
And if I get a $30 plate instead of a $10, that's the same effort to my server. Why should he/she get 3 times the tip? I never stay longer than an hour, half hour usually. I don't like to dilly dally. So I am not being an imposition, or demanding. I pick my food quickly, order politely, eat, then leave. I would walk up and get my own food if they let me. I don't want to be served and make a huge deal out of it.
Apparently some server's tips for income tax purposes are calculated as a percentage of sales for the year. So a $30 steak comes with the income tax assumption of a $3 tip.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
To be perfectly honest, it's not my job to compensate them for slow days. It sounds like I'm being an ass, but that is life. I run my own business; I have slow months, or multiple months. That's the nature of the profession I have chosen. I do not expect what customers I do have, to add money for me on top during the slow months. That expectation is frankly insulting. I know what my cash flow is like, and I adjust if things get slow. Servers need to as well.
When I am guilted into paying my server a "tip" equivalent to me personally paying him/her $10-$12 per hour, that is ridiculous. Especially when I am not the only table being guilted by our system into doing that. The restaurant is expecting them to make a certain percentage? Not my problem. The managers estimate tax based on percentage? Not my problem. I have to pay for my company's health insurance out of my revenue. I have to hold $5 Million in liability insurance. I have to pay business taxes and accountant fees. We all have factors that affect our bottom line. Servers need to grow up and stop with this entitlement bullshit. I have never, and will never, stiff a server. I understand that some people will. However, it's not my job to subsidize for that. I'm currently owed $13,000 by an Egyptian company. I may never see that money. Do you think I expect my other customers to help subsidize that? No