/ck/ - Food & Cooking

i give tips, but i'd love to have a server i knew complained like that.

i'd give that bitch a dime.

I'm not anti-tipping, but that bitch has gone full retard. If a job is potentially costing you money, quit.

>>5293633
but that would imply that she made a bad choice and that it's actually NOT someone else's fault.

live in europe

I know a few waitresses, and they average $15/hour. Might not be the best job, but they actually thought about it for a second and applied for popular places and not shitty restaurants where a bad tip means you're less than minimum.

Didn't expect people who complain about this to think anyway.

>>5293632
I tip extremely well. Typically 25%+. Usually minimum $5, but if I had a server that was like that I wouldn't leave her anything. Fuck it.

Especially when she more than likely is not claiming full tips on her taxes, etc. Most servers I know make a minimum of $100 a night, unless it is really slow, which isn't that often, which is more than enough.

She's a liar to boot.

>>5293638
i would say the majority of servers are like the on in OP's picture. though, most of them would never say anything, but only think it

>Bussers, bartenders, and food runners
Worthless server expects me to pay them for not doing anything other than taking my order.

>>5293646
I realize that, I was a food runner as well as a server years back. Made good money doing it, too.

I understand talking amongst friends and coworkers, but putting it on facebook is just annoying.

One thing I learned while foodrunning is how lazy servers are. When I'd take the food out, I would be typically filling up everyone's drinks, etc, grabbing silverware, fixing orders, servers were always lazy as fuck. Of course, some of them would take care of me at the end of the night, but some wouldn't. I even had some tables that would give me a tip separately from the server; I would go as far as making a much hotter salsa for a few of our customers who came in because one time he bitched that our salsa sucked; became a regular. Generally, I would clean at least one servers section for them($20 for each section) so they could get out of work earlier.

In the beginning, I would typically pull in $60-100 in tips alone, but was making like $8+ an hour at the time(minimum wage was under $7.25), so I'd get all that money tax free, plus a paycheck, and it was awesome. And that was a cheap shitty Mexican restaurant. Soon, all the white people left, I started making shit for money, and then, being the last white person there, I left as well.

20% on subtotal before tax
$1 per drink at a bar

>>5293657
How do I get a job as a busser/food runner for a real restaurant? All my previous food service experience has been at fast food places making minimum wage. I need that tip money.

>>5293666
I just knew someone on management. It was great money, especially for the age(14 to 15). Then I quit, started working in a shop doing manual labor, made less money for two years, and using that as a stepping stone for my current job, which paid off in the long run, as most of my friends are still working in restaurants, and I am making good wage for my age.

In my state, employers are obligated to pay their tipped employees the difference between their total earnings and their would-be earnings if they were minimum wage. In other words, servers are always guaranteed at least minimum wage if keep track of their earnings. Being a waiter/ress is a minimum wage job, they deserve nothing more.

It bugs me that waiters think they have such a difficult job because they have to "deal with people." Who the fuck DOESN'T deal with people?

>>5293677
Well, the problem there stems from servers who don't claim full tips, and receiving the minimum wage requirement; it's a double edged sword as far as arguing about it goes.
>Who the fuck DOESN'T deal with people?

I've never seen a server make sub-minimum wage as far as tips go. The only time it's possible is if a restaurant is dead, and in that case, people typically get cut. More than likely, she is bitching about "potential loss", IE: she expects to make "x" amount, but since she didn't get a tip, it's costing her.

>>5293677
That's a federal law.

>>5293688
Even better, now I can feel ok about not tipping where ever I go!

In california, I heard that waiters make state min wage (~$8) and get tipped on top of that. And they still complain. That's fucking nuts, they're just too used to getting way too much money for doing monkey work. Entitled for sure.

Food ticket machines. It's gonna happen.

>>5293701
It's already started.

>>5293626
It's an incentive to give good service and treat it as more than "just a job." I agree that employers who abuse that excuse need to be shot though.

>>5293699
>$8 min wage
It's like $10.50 in SF

>>5293719
Our servers are unionized. They make 12-something an hour. I agree that people should still tip them, many work harder than managers, but several of those bitches need to go.

>>5293711
A restaurant opened near where I live that had those. They were gone within a month, replaced with paper menus and a lanky hipster who read your order back to you for confirmation.

It is breaking the law for an employer not to pay an employee minimum wage. Fact.
Tips make up the difference in pay, by law. If they do not make enough money during a shift, employers match what is the base wage to the actual federal minimum wage (or whatever ordinance is in that locale that could be higher). If tips do NOT meet that amount....something is very seriously wrong, and they should quit that sleepy joint, or find a career where they don't piss people off all day from ineptness. Get a clue.

In other words, this entire jpg is a big fat lie. This person failed math and competition. No one server is ever going to change the mindset of the average diner. People who work in highly touristed zones, college bars, etc might encounter some unbalanced level of tip stiffers, but anything beyond that, they should change jobs or treat customers better. If you aren't making enough money, you find some other line of work or new business to work at.

Only tips you leave by credit card are known to the employer. Many many many people who tip well purposely will leave the tip in cash, and not on record on their credit card receipt. This is so service by a server is rewarded at whatever rate they earned. If it was exceptional, why should a maitre'd or busser get beyond their percentage cut? They should not. Similar can be said for taxes.