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Frost__2001,Jul 10 2006, 10:11 AM Wrote:As someone who works at a food place, it's good to get tips because some of you guys / girls don't realize that's more then likely their gas money to get to work as most of these jobs pay way to low to live off, and most people that work there live pay check to pay check.
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I agree with you on the living paycheque to paycheque thing... I've been a server for four years now, putting myself through university.
Another thing that most people don't understand is that most of the time, the server has to pay what is called "tip-out". For me, I have to pay 5% of whatever I sell to this tip-pool system which ensures that the cooks, bus boys, bartenders and hostesses get paid. When you leave a restaurant and you don't leave the server any tip, the server ends up having to pay the tip pool for your portion of their sales out of their own pocket!! When you're only making 6$ an hour, it hurts the bank account.
Not to mention the amount of people who run out without even paying their bill... who do you think has to pay for that?