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Originally Posted by jimhoward
For what its worth, servers in Villages restaurants make a lot more than $13/hour. More like $30. It is usual for a server working a double shift (lunch and dinner, 11-3, hour break, 4-9) to bring home $250 - $300/day in tips alone after paying out hosts and bussers. The hourly wage is on top of that. Some experienced servers that can handle more tables make more than that.
My data comes from two daughters who work at two different villages restaurants.
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Tell that to the people who used to work at Gator's Dockside. They got the "tipped employee" minimum (which was lower than the regular minimum). All tips were pooled for each shift, and the cooks and host got a share of the pool even though cooks and host were both paid the regular minimum.
Sometimes, servers would go home with just minimum wage, because another server might have earned NO tip at all, but they'd get an equal share of the tip pool. A bad server might not last long, but however long they did last, affected the pay of everyone else on the shift.