Crucial aspects of eating out
The purpose of this is to open the public's eyes to the unrelenting and under-appreciated service industry. I could begin with statistics (servers make, on average, $2.13 per hour), terminology (running your server, 86, gratuity and its benefits), or just daily life (rants and raves of various customers).
Hopefully this shall combine the above.
Beginning with:
Tips.Are.Crucial.
As previously stated, servers make around $2.13/hr. That being below minimum wage, tips ARE our income. It is VITALY IMPORTANT to tip AT LEAST 15% in order for us to survive and pay bills. 3% of our total sales is distributed between the bartenders, hostesses, and bus boys. This comes out of our tips, whether or not we are tipped. This is inaccurately called "tip-out". When you stiff your server/leave a crap tip, we are essentially paying to serve on you.
This is hated universally among us of the server class. You are lucky most restaurants enforce a policy that we can't run after you and tell you something to the effect of "You need this $2 you left me on that $67 tab more than I do. Thank you for trying to support me and my toddler, but your efforts really aren't necessary."
Our paychecks really aren't paychecks, it is how we pay our taxes. The $2.13 we receive for each hour for dashing back and forth to ensue that your salad is drowned in three ramekins of ranch, one after the other, goes to Uncle Sam. This makes our hourly wage null and void, so your tips are essential to us keeping the electricity on. Keep this in mind when you budget your restaurant adventure! It will result in less curses on you and yours after you leave the restaurant. My personal supply of voodoo dolls is running low, and I can't afford to buy any more.
This is not over, people. Be nice to those that are bringing things that are going to be immediately consumed by you.
Right now, I personally have to doll myself up to go to work. Let's hope the antics of tonight are low and the tips are high.
The water bill's due tomorrow.
Hopefully this shall combine the above.
Beginning with:
Tips.Are.Crucial.
As previously stated, servers make around $2.13/hr. That being below minimum wage, tips ARE our income. It is VITALY IMPORTANT to tip AT LEAST 15% in order for us to survive and pay bills. 3% of our total sales is distributed between the bartenders, hostesses, and bus boys. This comes out of our tips, whether or not we are tipped. This is inaccurately called "tip-out". When you stiff your server/leave a crap tip, we are essentially paying to serve on you.
This is hated universally among us of the server class. You are lucky most restaurants enforce a policy that we can't run after you and tell you something to the effect of "You need this $2 you left me on that $67 tab more than I do. Thank you for trying to support me and my toddler, but your efforts really aren't necessary."
Our paychecks really aren't paychecks, it is how we pay our taxes. The $2.13 we receive for each hour for dashing back and forth to ensue that your salad is drowned in three ramekins of ranch, one after the other, goes to Uncle Sam. This makes our hourly wage null and void, so your tips are essential to us keeping the electricity on. Keep this in mind when you budget your restaurant adventure! It will result in less curses on you and yours after you leave the restaurant. My personal supply of voodoo dolls is running low, and I can't afford to buy any more.
This is not over, people. Be nice to those that are bringing things that are going to be immediately consumed by you.
Right now, I personally have to doll myself up to go to work. Let's hope the antics of tonight are low and the tips are high.
The water bill's due tomorrow.