Not blaming him at all, just saying he isn't promoting this for the employees.



On another note, it's funny when you go out to eat you do all the tip calculation for what ever %, but do you think the waiters really know what it should be?

You can call and give your opinion, we did
 

Marlene O'toole, House

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Alan Hayes, state senate

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We went to both their village offices a few months ago and was told by both that it was a dead issue for this year. I'll go back and see if anything changed.

Minimum wage in 1968 and 1969 was $1.60. If you were making a buck an hour plus tips that probably wasn't bad money. The minimum wage didn't hit $2.60 until 1978.

OK, I'm going to step in it.

I don't like tipping. I do tip, but what is a GOOD tip? Why is it based on the bill? When I eat at Frisch's Big Boy and have a $17.00 total dinner bill and a $3.40 (20% tip) verses a $50.00 total dinner bill will be a $10.00 (20%). I see them serving the same number of customers, bringing me the same number of drink refills and often cleaning their own tables. It just doesn't seem fair to me.

I do like to tip to reward good service, but I hate having to tip just to make sure the servers can have a decent wage.

That's my 2 cents.

at some resturants the bills for each server are added up and a % is reported to the goverment. So if some one over tips they win if someone stiffs them they loose all the way around.. not fair, but the goverment wants to make sure they get their money even if the servers don't

They have to be able to demonstrate that the server is making at least minimum wage with salary and tips combined. I don't think that's a problem for most servers.

By having this kind of system servers are able to make a lot more money. If they got paid minimum wage, the cost of the meal would increase and people wouldn't tip as much. I lived in country where there is no tipping and servers get minimum wage and they pretty much make minimum wage. Almost no one tips except for Americans who are so used to tipping that we feel guilty if we don't.

That is true in one sense, added staff, but what happens with increased staff is less tables assigned to a waitperson thus lessening the amount to be made. Some staff that we know from our area restaurants have left because of that reason.

The Reality . . .
 

Some people in TV have come up with a scheme. They order their food, then
complain that it didn't taste good using words like "bad", "sour", "rancid". The manager is called over, the bill is forgiven, then guess who pays the bill?

Yup, the server. They sometimes get stuck paying the bill - the manager accuses the server of not attending to the customer.

Also, many times, I have heard servers say people just get up and walk out without asking for a bill. Guess who pays for that? Servers have to keep an eye on all that they serve and stop them at the door if they try to skip out.

It's not easy work.

That I'm sure is illegal, no employe is responsible for a loss to an employer due to error or neglect.

If they steal from an employer that employer can not deduct the money.

Against the labor laws.

yes happens often