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Actually, yes. California doesn't allow tipped restaurant servers to be paid less than minimum wage like many other states. PA minimum wage is $15(10-12 take ho

Actually, yes. California doesn't allow tipped restaurant servers to be paid less than minimum wage like many other states. PA minimum wage is $15(10-12 take home), and you can expect another $15-30/hr cash. So yes, that's not that much. Not a living wage.

tyingq 9y ago
Not all the employees get tips though. Cooks, busboys, host/hostess, etc.
- lsiebert 9y ago
  Often waiters will pool tips are pooled with kitchen staff, the exception being managers (managers taking tips would be illegal)
  - tyingq 9y ago
    The fair labor standards act limits that basically to front-of-house in the US. "A valid tip pool may not include employees who do not customarily and regularly received tips, such as dishwashers, cooks, chefs, and janitors."
brianwawok 9y ago
So THIS is why California has so many" no waiter, order at window and take food back to table" restaurants. I knew there has to be a reason but couldn't figure it out... Which I guess means this policy is very polar. The waiters that still have a job make more money. The ones that got replaced by a to go window have nothing.