I have what may be called a random comment: Please tip your waitresses well. They are only federally required to get $2.13 per hour, plus tips, and that is no typo. See the list of states that give $2.13 per hour, here,: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage_in_the_United_States, and know that some states in the $2.13 per hour list are conservative states, meaning they will find any loophole in the requirements to compensate waitresses if the $2.13 per hour+ tips dont add up to the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour. To those that say the tips will push the totals to over the minimum wage, I say a few things: 1. Some states or restaurants will require waiters and waitresses to share their tips, meaning, a $20 tip will be split evenly throughout the ENTIRE KITCHEN STAFF, which may mean the server/waitress will get lucky to get $2 out of a $20 tip. 2. Some people barely tip, or dont tip at all. 3. Consider the long work shifts of the waiter/waitress, or servers, and consider that the bare minimum that they need to do is offer drinks, take your orders, write up meal tickets, deliver your orders to the kitchen staff, and deliver your meal/s when they are ready within 30-45 minutes, in what could be a very busy restaurant. 4. The restaurant may be half-empty, or as full as Yankee stadium. 5. Imagine the pain it is, when there are only 1 or two waiters/waitresses/servers in a jam-packed restaurant, be it your favorite Chinese Restaurant, Pizza Hut, or IHop, for example. Now imagine the pain it is for THE WAITERS/WAITRESSES/SERVERS, considering they will have to do what I said in point #3 to perfection just for the slightest possibility of a good day in terms of tips, and consider that customers will only wait so long for their food to be served to them until they walk out. When an under-staffed restaurant means there are customers walking out the door, that means MONEY IS ALSO WALKING OUT THE DOOR, leaving said restaurants in the RED, and said servers UNDERPAID. If a waitress serves you your food in the circumstances described in this point that I am making, here, please make sure to tip that waitress well. 6. Imagine if the tips DO push said server over the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour, so what? With cost of living going through the roof at the moment, and bills, and taxes, a server, just like the other people who work for a federal minimum wage, is unlikely to have a lot of money left for anything else. SO TIP YOUR SERVERS/WAITERS/WAITRESSES WELL!!!
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 07:56:47 +0000
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