This has been discussed in a previous thread. As I understand it, FL law requires tipped employees to make a minimum of $8.05/hour. If salary and tips don't add up to this amount, the employer must make the difference. Tips that are shared are excluded from the calculation. This is my understanding of the law. If someone knows differently, by direct experience, I would like to know. I am just trying to understand the FL law.
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Originally Posted by CFrance
This points out further what Redwitch said in another thread, that poor tippers frequently cause waitstaff to have to pay out of their own pocket at the end of the night, because restaurants use a percentage across the board that is not necessarily reality.
I think it's wrong, and I am of the opinion that the way this job is viewed in European countries--as a skilled job and oftentimes a career--solves the problem. Instead of leaving the tip up to the customer, it is added to the bill and nothing further is required of the customer. If a diner feels he has received poor service (which has never happened to us in 20 years of traveling overseas and even living there for 6 months), complaints can be made to the manager, and the manager can take it up with the waiter. But that rarely happens, because this is the server's livelihood on the line.
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