RE: [didyaknow] #3 To Tip or Not to Tip: That is the Question.

[Ian Skinner]

Back in my Waiter days, when I did these duties, I had to clock in under a 
different code and be paid more per hour while I was doing it.  I was under the 
impression at the time that this was an IRS rule.  Now, one probable still did 
not make what one could make in tips per hour, but we also did this at the end 
or beginning of shifts where the customer load was low or gone after the 
restaurant was closed.

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Ian Skinner
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...-----Original Message-----
...From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 2:22 PM
...To: CF-Community
...Subject: Re: [didyaknow] #3 To Tip or Not to Tip: That is the Question.
...
...At 05:04 PM 1/10/2005, you wrote:
...>Subject: [didyaknow] #3    To Tip or Not to Tip: That is the Question.
...>From: "David Churvis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...>Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:02:41 -0500
...>Thread:
...>http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm/method=messages&threadid
...=15507&forumid=5#141933
...>
...>Good old Tightwad Gazette :)
...>
...>I always leave a decent tip unless the service was noteably terrible,
...and my
...>reasons for doing so are based on my understandings of minimum wage.
...
...  My system:
...
...A) You start w/ 20%
...B) The first mistake you make drops you down to 15%
...C) Good or bad things along the way can bump you up or down a point.
...
...  I have had people who never made mistakes.  I don't ever remember
...leaving
...the dreaded "1 penny" tip for horribly bad service.
...
...
...>The
...>minimum wage for someone who can get tips is much less than the minimum
...wage
...>for someone who doesn't make tips.
...
...  I think that is the best reason I've heard for tipping.  (And I've
...heard
...it before).
...
...
...>However, employers don't often make up the difference fairly.  In
...addition,
...>I know enough people who don't tip well to know that waiters in most
...>restaurants don't make enough from their tips to make up the
...discrepancy.
...
...I used to have a roommate who could easily pull in $400-$500 a night in
...tips (on the weekend).  While I wouldn't consider that living it up, it
...tops minimum wage. He worked for a TGI Fridays, so it's not like he was
...at
...a fancy place where the average plate was $100+.
...
...  On a completely separate note, that same TGI Fridays (where my old
...roommate worked) is being sued by an ex-worker there, who complained that
...time spent doing "extra duties' such as filling ketchup bottles and salt
.../
...pepper shakers prevented her from properly servicing her tables, thus
...resulting in lower tips.  This was the topic of conversation at a radio
...morning show recently.
...
...
...
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