<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Ling:
And what about the tips they recieved every day? Why isn't that counted towards your "paycheck" every week?</font>
It is.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">If I pay my dishwasher 6.50 an hour, is that waitress doing sooooo much more than him to earn 6.50 an hour plus tips? Only if she is doing her job. And if she isn't making at least 8% of her total sales in tips, she is a really BAD waitress. Wait staff paychecks are deducted by the TAXES on that 8% of her total sales, NOT THE 8%. So if her total sales for the day was 500 dollars, her paycheck would be deducted the TAXES on $40.</font>
You are misinformed. The tax law states that a directly and indirectly tipped employee is resposible for declaring 100% of their tipped income. The 8% rule, is based on the employee declaring 8% of their net sales, as tipped income.
At one time this kept the IRS out of restaurants and prevented audits. NO LONGER.
The governement has instituted what is called a Tracking, where the servers cash tip must be close to or identicle to that of their charge tip percentage. If it is not. The employee and the business suffer an audit.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Another type has no other skills (ie. lazy), waits on tables until she dies, because the money is easy and her husband pays most of the bills, or she has child support/welfare/foodstamps. </font>
hmm, I find it odd that you only group women into that lot.
Of my staff, I can honestly say that none of them are professional servers. But as their Manager, I guide them, through example, to be the most productive they can be. To follow the same guiding principals for service that guide me.
The
people who are slow to catch on, provide poor, inattentive service, simply no longer work for me.
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Just My 2¢