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Originally Posted by warrrreagl
Now that minimum wage has increased, you should expect to see every restaurant you visit introduce brand new menus - with new, higher prices.
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As a general rule, in the restaurant industry, servers do not earn minimum wage-they earn less than. It's the tips that bring up their income.
There are several ways tips are figured into income. One, done mainly in national chains, the tips are turned into bookeeping and included in the paycheck. Another, tips are 'pooled' at the end of the shift and, depending on the business, divided equally between servers with a percentage going to busboys and hostesses. Still another, servers pocket their own earned tips and do not report them. When I worked, 1998-2000, waitresses earned just over $2 an hour, plus pooled and divided tips. As hostess/cashier, I earned $6.75 an hour, no sharing of tips, although if it was super busy and I helped serve, they'd hand me a few bucks out of their tip pool. In turn, if i got tips, those, too would go into the tip pool.