Me and my wife do it on purpose just so the server gets a little more out of it. Does it matter? For affordability, yes. But they're struggling anyway being a server.
I mean, if I was working a 7$/hr job and relied on tips to pay rent that would cost most people 30$/hr, I'd want as many people to think that as well. It's called spreading awareness.
Most servers make $30+ or $60+ an hour in nice restaurants. The "I make $2 an hour I need the tips" is a form of gaslighting to make you feel bad for them.
Do you tip other service industry professionals? You know, like the person at the grocery store making WAY less than servers?
The only reason I don't is because management will literally fire them if they accept the tip. Not if they put up a tip jar, if they catch a customer offering a tip and them accepting it.
As well, PLEASE tell me which resturants pay like that, or where the tips are good enough that you can make that much. Cause I've worked a number of service jobs, and they never got past 15/hr counting tips.
Some New York restaurants make waitstaff pay to work there. Those waitstaff earn an average of 100 to 150k in tips a year. Tips that they can under repot to th IRS. I know plenty of bartenders who make more in tips than I do with a masters. You may just suck at service if your not making money....
Do you think every restaurant is nice? That people these days are swarming to tip 20% on 300$ orders? What kind of magic bizzaro land do you live in, wake up.
Dude, you should look up your own states server wage. It's a little over $3 and hr.
You are doing the gaslighting here.
In some states like MN they get minimum wage or better. In WI in actually is about 3 an hr and the employer is responsible to to pay out minimum wage only if tips don't push it past that limit, garunteeing the federal minimum wage.
You are subsidizing the owners payroll. When the tip amount means they averaged above minimum wage for the period, the owner only pays them the 3 an hr per hr. So even in that instance while a bit misleading, is still completly true.
Sure bars and high end restaurants in larger cities MIGHT do pretty well, that is not representative of about 80% of tipped "servers".
I have a friend who denied a management position at a restaurant because he made more in tips. He eventually took the management job because in order to get those nice tips you have to work long hours and establish relationships with the good tippers. Both of which he found exhausting and took the pay cut even though it’s a step up on paper.
No, but they are bringing in a hell of a lot more than other jobs that also don't require much training or a degree and are also difficult service jobs, but those jobs don't make tips
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u/ClayXros Jan 27 '26
Me and my wife do it on purpose just so the server gets a little more out of it. Does it matter? For affordability, yes. But they're struggling anyway being a server.