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Originally Posted by conman5652@aol.com
They do more then bring u a plate. Remember their pay per hour is less then half the current Fl minimum wage. So yes cheap people like u my be keeping good servers from working in the bubble.
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The above comment is definitely not true if you are taking about servers. The current Florida minimum wage for non-tipped employees is $11.00 per hour. That, by the way is in the top third of minimum wages in the US.
There is separate Florida minimum wage for tipped employees. That by itself is $7.98 which by itself is well over half of the minimum wage of non-tipped employees. However, the law basically requires the employer to pay a supplement to the employee if the tips do not reach the same level of pay the non-tipped employee minimum wage provides.
The result is that the tipped employees are insured of getting at least as much as non-tipped employees. Further, the tipped employee can far exceed the $11.00 figure. For example, today my wife and myself went to Mallory and our bill was $29.75 including taxes. We were there about 45 minutes. We tipped $6.00 in cash and paid the bill by credit card ie $29.75. There were at least two other tables of 4 being serviced by this server. Assuming at least a $50 tab per table and 20 % tipping would be another $20 tip, ie $26 of tips in 1 hour.
Cash tipping is not just a nicety. What it does is potentially allow the server to avoid sharing the tip and to potentially reduce income and tax liability. If servers netted less than dishwashers, I'm sure they would not still be servers.
Also, we shouldn't assume all servers are paid Tipped employee minimum wages.