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Really, the stingy fucking owner passing on their virtue signalling bullshit back onto the customers. Essentially with sales tax + this fee, your total post bill tax is 20% .... Owner could have just wrapped into the cost, but no, fuck the wait staff, we can add it in as a tertiary cost instead because we despise our customers so much

Really, the stingy fucking owner passing on their virtue signalling bullshit back onto the customers. Essentially with sales tax + this fee, your total post bill tax is 20% .... Owner could have just wrapped into the cost, but no, fuck the wait staff, we can add it in as a tertiary cost instead because we despise our customers so much

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Why should a server walk out with 1200 in cash and a dishwasher make 10 bucks an hour? Dishwasher/busboy/cooks work just as hard or harder and under worse conditions than a server. Thats why. Cuz fuck the servers.

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Neither the busboy, nor the dishwasher, work as hard or with the talent as good waitstaff. The waitstaff also get $2 an hour in wages, far below the minimum wage of the busboy or dishwasher, and the waitstaff are not walking out with $1200 an the end of their shift.

Bus boy and dishwasher are zero skill minimum wage jobs that only require the person to bust ass for 6 hours a shift.

Cooks get paid more than minimum wage and get paid based on their position in the kitchen and the cooking and organizational skill required to hold that position.

Wait staff get $2 an hour plus tips and their success or failure as a waiter relies on their professionalism, the restaurants' popularity, and their ability to meet the needs of the customer.

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No

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Not $2/hour, it's half the states minimum wage. I work part time in the summers as a server to go towards our debt, just one the weekends when I'm not working my other job.

I get $5.50/hour plus tips. Any credit cards tips are automatically reported and taxed heavily. We also have to tip out to the busboy, good runners, expo, bartenders, and hostesses, which is another 20% or so total.

So, say I make $500/10-hour shift, and only $50 of that is cash. $100 goes to divvied up to the rest of the staff. If we are training someone as a server, we'll throw another $50 or so their way so they have some cash before payday, more if they busted their asses.

So in the end, we walk out with a maximum $400, taxed on $450 bc they're tied to the credit cards under our sales. And that's for a good, fairly busy shift at a popular restuarant.

I'm just glad we're in an area that doesn't implement those bullshit fees.