(April 5, 2018 at 12:11 pm)Tiberius Wrote: FYI, the whole $2.83 an hour is bullshit. That's the legal minimum employers have to pay service staff, and the rest is expected to be made up in tips. However, if the combined wages and tips earned in any week do not add up to $7.25 (standard minimum wage) then the employer must increase their wage to make up for the loss. Servers do not lose out on any money by not getting tips.
Also: "As of May 2017, the average hourly wage – including tips – for a restaurant employee in the United States that received tip income was $11.82."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wag...ted_States
The only thing that ever made me be able to put up with the bullshit of working a busy night in food and beverage was knowing that there would be bank at the end of it. Sure, on slow days, you don't get squat. But you don't do squat either.