My post was in response to the post regarding servers making minimum wage. You miss the point and you are wrong with your conclusion. Servers are guaranteed to get the minimum wage ($8.25/hour, not $5.23/hour) regardless of the tips they receive. Go back and read the law. They can certainly make more and that is entirely up to them and the choices they make. The employer is required to make up the difference if their tips don't cover the difference. There is no attempt on my part to state anything other than the facts. If you want to introduce some sort of morality issue into the discussion then please start another thread. I am not really interested in such discussions since what people make is mostly a result of their choices.
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Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa
Wow. A royal $5.23 an hour.
Notice that they are assumed to receive tips or $3.02 an hour, whether they do or not. (This is because it is known that some people tip in cash, which the server might not report to management.)
The employer is required to pay $5.23 an hour, not the Florida minimum wage of $8.25 an hour.
A person who is stingy with tips should get cold comfort from the fact that the server would get $5.23 an hour anyway.
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