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>It does deprive the server of a living wage. Then maybe the server should tell the customer how much they need to be tipped? "Welcome to AppleBees. My name i
by undersuit 8y ago
>It does deprive the server of a living wage.
Then maybe the server should tell the customer how much they need to be tipped?
"Welcome to AppleBees. My name is Trevor and I need an additional $24.89 in tips today so that my employer isn't obligated to pay me the minimum wage for this state."
Also, should I be under-tipping waitstaff that I think are rich enough?
- mikeash 8y agoEmployers have to make up the difference if tipped employees don't make enough tips to meet the minimum wage. However, minimum wage is often not a living wage.
- paulie_a 8y agoI would guess there are dozens of cases of that actually happening a year. And then the person got fired.
- awalton 8y ago> Employers have to make up the difference if tipped employees don't make enough tips to meet the minimum wage This is not true in all states. Kentucky has no provision for this, e.g. (I worked in restaurants through college, so I have hands on experience here.)
- mikeash 8y agoIt’s federal law: https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs15.htm https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs15.htm Maybe it was different when you were in college?
- dragonwriter 8y agoEmployers use tips as a performance metric, and particularly use needing to top-up an employee's tips as a firing cue, so in practice in places where cash tips are possible employees will often, at a minimum, report sufficient cash tips to avoid top-up even if they don't recieve them.