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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Bartenders in restaurants that have bars where patrons can sit, earn their tips at the bar. They aren't tipped out, here in the Villages. It's just not how it works. They get paid better than waiters.
Kitchen help get paid minimum wage, which is $11/hour at the moment. Wait staff gets paid $7.98/hour and RELY on tips to make up the difference. If their tips are pooled and split among kitchen staff, bartenders, and hosts, then those kitchen staff could theoretically be earning significantly more than the wait staff, after the tips are split.
That isn't how it works everywhere, and it definitely isn't how it worked at the places I've been on wait staff or as a bartender. Wait staff works their butts off, the customers THINK that the tips are going to the wait staff, but in actuality they only get a piece of the tip.
If a waiter gets tipped $10 for a $50 meal - and there are 10 employees working during that shift, then that means the waiter earned $1 out of their customer's tip for themselves. If the other waiter had half as many tips, then the one who EARNED more will lose out when it's time for their share of their tips.
Pooling tips to "make up" for a minimum wage benefits only the management. It hurts the employees.
And that is why there is such a huge turnover. A waiter who EARNED $100 in tips that day, might only see a total of $40 when everyone else's tips are split among themselves, and the people who don't get tipped at all BECAUSE THEY ALREADY GET PAID A HIGHER WAGE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
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As to the" benefits only the management. It hurts the employees", that is what happens in all industries, especially in the last 50 years. The only counter to that situation is UNIONS. Florida and the south, in general, are anti-union. Nationally, unions in the US (not Germany) have been decreasing, which has weakened the middle class and divided America into the "Haves and Have-Nots". Which makes for a less stable and less powerful America than prior to about 1970.
We are seeing that instability here locally in the inability to maintain a stable RESTAURANT work force. They are faking enjoyment for their jobs and are casting about looking and hoping for something better. Meanwhile. management at MacDonald's is looking to have robotic servers to eliminate as many workers as possible.