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Originally Posted by pauld315
Everybody mourns the poor restaurant worker. Here are a couple examples of great severs and bartenders I have spoken to about this. A waiter I knew told me that he makes 40 to 50 dollars per hour every hour that he works. A lot of that is cash so I doubt it ever makes it to his 1040. A great bartender I know just told me he is extremely busy and makes about 100 dollars per hour in tips. How do you think these 2 would react if they were told they were now going to make 15 an hour but they would no longer get any tips ?
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Out of that tip money they have to pay the same taxes everyone else pays. My granddaughter worked as a server while in college and she did make good money on tips, but nothing like the amounts cited above. The government has enacted laws that makes it difficult for a server to claim less money in tips than actually received. There is some wiggle room to cheat but not that much. I've never heard of a restaurant providing health care coverage for servers, so out of the tips received they must also pay for medical insurance which isn't cheap. I've known quite a few people who have worked as servers and they struggle to keep up with living expenses.