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In many healthy restaurants tip culture goes beyond the frontline staff - servers and hosts will tip out the kitchen, bussers, etc at the end of the night. Fri
by oasisbob 8y ago
In many healthy restaurants tip culture goes beyond the frontline staff - servers and hosts will tip out the kitchen, bussers, etc at the end of the night.
Friends I had in high school would make 2-3x minimum wage as bussers on busy nights. $2-3 per server per shift was pro forma, even on a quiet night.
- astura 8y agoWhich makes the whole thing very, very, very silly: People say you're supposed to tip based on "quality of service" (whatever that means?) and tips are an incentive to provide "good service"[1] (because obviously everyone who isn't tipped doesn't do their job?????) However, in practice if your server is an asshole and you don't tip you also stiff the host and bussers and bartenders. That's obviously profoundly unfair. Not to mention if you get bad service it's unlikely that it's your server's personal fault, restaurant service is a team effort and the quality of service is mostly a function of quality of management. [1] I don't see a functional difference between this and bribery.