Tipping in the service industry

[vulcanlogician]

Many places encourage their servers to sell food. In addition, servers are taxed based on their end-of-night ticket. I see where you are coming from, RR, but if you pay a lot of money for a meal, you ought to consider tipping higher too because your server is getting taxed based on what you spend.

What.... wait.... are you in the US. This sounds kind of crazy.   I think here, they are taxed on their earnings, the owner, is getting taxed off of what I spent (actually profit from it), but not the server.

I live in the US.

They are taxed on their earnings   . But how are their earnings calculated? In Maryland (when I was a server) the federal gov't taxed 7% of my sales each night. It might be higher now. IDK. You are SUPPOSED to report all your tips. But nobody does. If you enter in 7% of your sales each night as earnings, the gov't won't come asking questions.

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And no shit, RR! Listen to Jor. You need to tip more, man. The service industry sucks worse than you think.

You think being a waitress is just bringing food out to the table? Fuck no! There is a ton of prep work involved. And when shit hits the fan, you have to multitask: remind the cooks to have your order ready, maybe prepare salads, get drinks, all the while being bitched out by the owner (a bleach blond, half drunken 40 something with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth) every time you go back to the kitchen.