Why do waiters have to share their tips? (employees, work, wages)

[PriscillaVanilla]

I am not a server although I did it 20 years ago, but I'm wondering why servers have to share their tips with everyone else who works in the restaurant including the cooks/chefs? Because cooks are not paid a low server wage, $2.13 an hour, they are paid regular wages; so why are servers who make only $2.13 an hour required to share their tips with the cooks? It also seems to create a lot of problems amongst the staff who feel entitled to part of the tips and claiming the servers are trying to hide what they got.

[BirdieBelle]

Originally Posted by PriscillaVanilla

I am not a server although I did it 20 years ago, but I'm wondering why servers have to share their tips with everyone else who works in the restaurant including the cooks/chefs? Because cooks are not paid a low server wage, $2.13 an hour, they are paid regular wages; so why are servers who make only $2.13 an hour required to share their tips with the cooks? It also seems to create a lot of problems amongst the staff who feel entitled to part of the tips and claiming the servers are trying to hide what they got.

They aren't required to. They can't be forced to.

The only tip splitting/tip pooling I'm familiar with is among front-of-house staff who actually provide service to customers (including bussers).

Restaurants have different policies, but there is no one way of doing it.

[PriscillaVanilla]

Originally Posted by BirdieBelle

They aren't required to. They can't be forced to.
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I didn't know that. I thought the restaurant could force them to.

[BusinessManIT]

I used to be a bus boy and got 10% of the waitress tips. At the end of the day the waitresses would pay me almost entirely in half-dollar coins.

[BirdieBelle]

Originally Posted by PriscillaVanilla

I didn't know that. I thought the restaurant could force them to.

https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/arti...r-tips-anymore

[PriscillaVanilla]

Originally Posted by BirdieBelle

https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/arti...r-tips-anymore

That was a ruling in 2016, hopefully all restaurants will comply with that now. Back when I was a server we were told we had to share tips.


I found on that same site a link to this article that says many servers live twice below the poverty line.


https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/arti...are-flat-broke

[Rabrrita]

Ahh, but you forget that we now own Washington and employees lives don't matter. Businesses have already instructed their man to squash this and we get what we paid for!
Waiters must share tips under proposed Fair Labor Standards Act change - Business Insider

[rhbj03]

Why do waiters get tips but bank tellers don't?

[kokonutty]

Originally Posted by BusinessManIT

I used to be a bus boy and got 10% of the waitress tips. At the end of the day the waitresses would pay me almost entirely in half-dollar coins.

Half dollar coins? Did you work at the last supper?

[Catgirl64]

Originally Posted by rhbj03

Why do waiters get tips but bank tellers don't?

Bank tellers are not paid $2.13/hr.