Tip or go to jail

[the max 0]

The biggest I ever left was $10, but it was a girl that I knew from high school.

 

I smallest amount I left (aside from nothing) was $0.02, and I wrote a few "tips" on my placemat for her.

[Hoff 0]

I've stiffed, but only when the server was downright rude. Poor service will usually net 25 cents from me.

[Guest Nanks]

$US2 is not enough to grease a bouncer in order to skip a 50 person long queue.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

I don't understand how people in the US work for like $2/hour, that shit should be illegal.  In Canada I was working for $9/hour and I felt violated.

This was discussed in one of the classes I had (Restaurant Mgmt.) and as far as I understood:

 

The Fair Employment Act states that no one can make less than minimum wage. But for tipped employees, their wage is figured as base salary plus tips, so technically, even though the waitress is making less than minimum wage (often around $2/hr), they are still paid above minimum wage when tips are factored in.

 

Restaurants are able to sell food cheaper because they don't have to make up the $3+ difference between the $2/hr that waitresses get and the minimum wage. If wait staff were paid in line with everyone else and tips weren't required, you would see food prices rise by at least 25%, if not a lot more.

[Guest Nanks]

So when waitresses aren't tipped their employers are in breach of the Fair Employment Act??

 

Or when mandatory tips are put in food prices rise by that much regardless, it's just called something else.

 

Just makes no sense.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

So when waitresses aren't tipped their employers are in breach of the Fair Employment Act??

The only thing I know for sure is that if a tipped employee's reported tips aren't as high as the IRS thinks they should be (the IRS uses a % of restaurant sales I think to figure a rough estimate for reported tips),I think the IRS usually comes after the Restaurant, not the employee for the difference.

 

So if a waitress sucks so bad that she doesn't get a lot of tips, the restaurant would probably have to pay the difference. Of course, she would probably be fired before it came to that so it really doesn't matter.

[Styles 0]

Heh, reminds me of this link I found that gives extensive instructions on tipping on deliveries: www.tipthepizzaguy.com