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Originally Posted by Eg_cruz
Wow in my day, we didn’t pool but we had to tip out to the bartender, bus boy and host and then we kept the rest.
I would not work in a place if I had to share my tips with other servers……period
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When I worked for a resort one summer, our tips were pooled. It was horrible. I did a pretty good job most of the time - had a bad day here, a bad shift there, but mostly positive. We weren't even allowed to see how much tips we were getting, the meals were billed to the customer's room and they paid tips when it was time to settle at the end of their stay.
The first week, I got less than $20 in tips. That was for two tables of 12 people, mixed guests from different rooms, for breakfast and dinner, for 7 days. No explanation of why it was so low but I didn't care, I left that job.
I've worked in small restaurants as well, where I might get $50 in tips for a shift. I bartended in a place where I got around $80 in tips for early afternoon/suppertime on a Friday, and maybe $10 on a Monday lunch (never bartend on mondays - it's the worst tipping day ever). This was when the normal minimum wage was $6-something, and tipped servers got $4-something. So $80 was definitely a good day, then.
We weren't required to tip out the busboy but everyone did. Usually 10% of whatever our tips were. The busboy got normal minimum wage, but he worked almost as hard as the waitstaff did. He'd usually end up between $30-50 in his pocket on a good night on top of his wages.
Because the bartender had his own customers, and was the only waitstaff that got normal minimum wage, we didn't kick in anything to him. He took in more than we did.