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Back in December, we reported on the Trump administration's proposed changes to tip-pooling regulations that would allow employers to pocket servers' tips as long as the employees continue to make minimum wage. That's right: Employers could take servers' tips and just dole out the minimum wage. But wait, it gets worse!
Turns out, the Department Of Labor knew how crappy this would make life for restaurant employees. This Bloomberg Law article, citing sources within the agency, reveals that the Department Of Labor knowingly buried its own data that showed restaurant workers would lose billions of dollars in gratuities under the new proposal.
Source: https://thetakeout.com/proposed-tip-pooling-law-is-so-bad-for-workers-the-gove-1822664111
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @07:32PM (5 children)
but at many places its not just the waitress that dips into that money--the bus boy, the cook, other waitstaff... all get a part of that.
there are places that the tip goes right to the waitperson, but many others divide that up among the people responsible to make the food get it to the table and ensure your needs are met when the wait person is waiting on other people, so you don't have to wait for the waiter--like for the person that often refills the water. there is no water waiter!
You are allowed to do as you want with the money, sure, but just remember it doesnt always get split up the way you might expect unless you specifically hand it to the wait person and say this is for them.
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Tuesday February 06 2018, @08:32PM (3 children)
I have never really understood this mentality.
I interact with the wait staff at a restaurant, but really, it's the kitchen staff that ensure my meal is tasty and not full of salmonella or other bacteria. It's the kitchen staff that are most important for my enjoyment of a meal.
Why tip the wait staff when the kitchen staff cooked a stellar meal?
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @10:00PM
The waitstaff are paid 3 dollars an hour and the kitchen staff 9? That's a damn good reason right there, jackhole.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2018, @04:19AM (1 child)
Because all the others in the US get the 'full' minimum wage - wait staff don't.
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Thursday February 08 2018, @01:35AM
Where I live the wait staff get full minimum wage.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 07 2018, @12:06AM
Uhhhh - not in my experience. I grew up in Pennsylvania. Labor law, at that time, defined "cook" duties as being separate and distinct from any other duties in a restaurant. And, cooks made better than minimum wage, even in a fast food dump. In real restaurants, cooks were actually paid pretty well. Not great, but pretty well. Cooks never got any part of any tips - period. Bus staff? Mmmmm - wait staff often times considered it a promotion to get a bus job. Bus staff wasn't paid as well as a cook, naturally enough, but they were paid better than waiters/witresses. Restaurants without separate bus staff are bussed by the wait staff, of course.
I think it fair to say that if you intended a tip to go to the wait staff, you could safely leave that money on the table, and the waiter would get it. At least, up until the time that the IRS determined that the manager/owner should collect all the tips and share/tax them "equally".
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