What you are describing may be in violation of the law. Tips back to other staff are excluded from the minimum total amount per hour that is required by FL law. There is nothing stopping anyone from being an anonymous whistle blower.
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Originally Posted by redwitch
Read what I said previously. The Darden chains for a start. Applebee's. Can only name those because I've seen it occur at those two places. I'd suggest you ask servers here if a restaurant has ever added to their hourly rate. Restaurants will use the excuse that they don't know actual tips since many tips are given in cash or partially in cash and partially on a card. They actually ignore the amount given for a tip (the servers do get the actual tip amount, whether five percent or twenty percent), calculate the tip at eighteen percent of the food amount and deduct a percentage of that amount for tip backs to other staff. My daughter once had to pay some of the tip backs out of her own pocket, so she actually made less than $3.35/hr that day, regardless of what was reported to the IRS. And let's not forget the off the clock work bartenders and servers are frequently required to do. Too much competition for these unskilled jobs for folks to complain.
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