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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580
Here is a thought that occurred to me while out for lunch at one of our average restaurants. Wife and I ordered mid-priced meals and drinks. Waitress brought 2 drinks and 2 plates. Our "tip" was $10.00. Using us Ave "average" customers, using the small amount of time she spent with us and the 5 tables we observers her serve in the 30 minutes we were there, she could easily have picked up $@50.00 in tips on top of her wage. A hundred dollars an hour for ten tables of two people in tips. 1 +- minute to take and place order. 1 minute to deliver drinks. 1 minute to deliver food. 1> minute to drop check. 1+- minute relieve payment.
Remember, you are not their only customer/tipper. Five, ten, or more dumping lots of tip money every hour. If they have agreed to tip-share with salaried employees, that is on them.
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One of my friends owns a bar and restaurant. She said her employees do not want to be paid a living wage. They love tips.
She said on a good night her employees can earn $500 or more in tips and $250 on a slow night. Working just four nights a week with two good nights and two slow nights, a person can make $1500 a week. With four weeks off for vacation, they can make more than $72,000 a year.
Assuming an 8 hour shift and just four tables per waitress and a 2 hour turnover per table, that is 16 tables per shift. (These are conservative numbers.)
According to my calculations, at $100 per table in revenue, that is $1600 per night.
A 15% tip is $240, 18% is $288, 20% is &320, and 25% is $400.