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Originally Posted by Rainger99
You can do whatever you want with mathematics. Is this what happens in real life? How many places pool tips? 10%, 50%, 100%? I am sure that if this actually happens, the bartender and good waitress would be gone after two weeks.
Even under this example, even the lousy waitress working 5 nights a week for 48 weeks, would make over $58,000. And I have heard some people don’t report all of their income on their taxes.
Looks like you are going to need a bigger golf cart.
If anyone has worked as a waitress or bartender, please provide your input.
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Most waitresses don't get 5-night shifts. Any waitress who works on a monday afternoon can tell you - you won't be making bubkes that day. If the managers doesn't like them, OR if they're a new employee, they will generally not be scheduled for Thursday-Sunday dinner shifts, because those are for more seasoned (or more liked) employees. Those are the money-making shifts.
Happy hour shifts are the worst. People are looking for a bargain. You tip 25% of the bill - but it was a BOGO happy hour and you actually received 4 drinks and only tipped for two of them because the other two were free and 25% of 0 is 0.
If you had tipped 15% of the total before discounts, they'd be ahead of the game. But that'd mess up your "get stuff cheap" strategy for happy hour.
But yes tips can be pooled 100% - unless they're cash tips. And then, that's only because smart, but disobedient wait staff pocket that cash tip and don't report it to the manager. The only tips that are guaranteed to be spread among the staff are credit card tips, because the manager sees those automatically.
The tipping pools differ from one place to the next. In some, bartenders get to keep 100% of their own tips, and only the waiter tips are spread. In some, the kitchen staff doesn't get any tipped funds, only the busboy gets a piece of that. In some, the hostess gets something, others, they don't. But whenever there is pooling, you know for absolute sure, that the person who EARNED the most of the money that gets pooled, will not get that much. And the person who EARNED the least, will get more than they earned.
Also yes, turnover is horrendous in many restaurants because the servers learn after they're hired that their earned money doesn't necessarily all go to them. That's one of the reasons some restaurants are so short-handed, why customer service in them is so horrible, why it looks like some of the servers are always annoyed, or make so many mistakes. Managers will hire almost anyone, just to fill the position. And then they either quit or get fired within a few weeks and they have to start over again.