Disneylover69
Active Member
Cause you live there
sorry you just set yourself up for that one
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WOW - What a week at WDW
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sorry you just set yourself up for that one
FutureCEO
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Min wage for my state of tipped workers is 3.89.
Basil of Baker Street
Well-Known Member
I don't eat out much because honestly I cook better food than I get eating out. But when I do, I double my tax with come out to 20% most of the time.
Personally I find tipping to be ridiculous. If I order tea with a ham and cheese croissant for $15, a server takes the order,puts the order in, then bring it to me when its ready their expected tip is $3.
If I order the rib-eye with a glass of red wine for $60, same taking the order, same bringing me when ready and the expected tip is $12. A 300% increase for the same conversation, same steps, same everything.
I just find it to be a silly system.
Personally I find tipping to be ridiculous. If I order tea with a ham and cheese croissant for $15, a server takes the order,puts the order in, then bring it to me when its ready their expected tip is $3.
If I order the rib-eye with a glass of red wine for $60, same taking the order, same bringing me when ready and the expected tip is $12. A 300% increase for the same conversation, same steps, same everything.
I just find it to be a silly system.
Ayla
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$2.33 here in Wisconsin.
Chi84
Premium Member
You’re new to the boards, but personal insults are against the TOS.Cause you live there
Disneylover69
Active Member
Whomp whomp
MickeyLuv'r
Well-Known Member
It would depend on the tips earned. I neglected to say tips in that portion of my post.
Another way to say this is to say that tipped employees have to earn at least min wage, but a portion of their tips can be counted as wages. So if $12 is the min wage in FL, then the restaurant can only count $3.02 of an employee's tips (per hour) towards the $12min wage. The employer always has to pay the employee at least $8.98 per hour. Though it looks like the FL min wage is set to keep going up by $1.00 every year on September 30th until it hits $15.00 on September 30, 2026, so I think it already is at $13.
Someone else claimed that employees can't afford to eat where they work, and that might be sorta true, but also sorta not true. Most restaurants make some effort to feed their employees. Big chains tend to give employees like 50% off or something like that, but they might limit the employee to food they actually eat during that shift. At some places, the chef might make up a platter(s) of food for the employees.
One small aspect of this thread that kinda bothers me about this thread is that waitstaff are not saints. There are great employees, and not so great employees. It is a tough job and just as with other CM's, kindness is in everyone's best interest, but employees are not saints. They sometimes do some really bad things.
Chi84
Premium Member
My question was actually whether they have to pay a server anything if they cut them early. So if a server shows up for a scheduled 8-hour shift and they get cut after 4 hours, do they just earn the wage you cited for 4 hours? Does the business have any obligation with respect to the scheduled hours not worked?
Of course waitstaff are not saints. That really has nothing to do with anything. I worked with some very highly-paid people who were not saints, nor did they meet minimum levels of civility. How much that affects the employer depends on the type of business or profession.
Every employer out there has to watch out for employees who do bad things, regardless of how much they earn.
Figgy1
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You only get paid for the hours you work, no obligation to honor a schedule unless it's in a contract. Not sure if it's still legal but some places were charging a daily fee to be fed even if you didn't eat
Chi84
Premium Member
That's what I thought.
JoeCamel
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Plus after growing up in Chicagoland and leaving for 20+ years I came back for a convention and while staying downtown had the most magical week of music every place I went, great food and visiting old haunts with late spring blooming all around me. A day at the MSI, Grant Park and the lakeshore, a trip up to Navy Pier with lunch at Uno's#1 plus a reception at the Field one night where l got to wander the exhibit galleries on my own alone as live music played in the central gallery......
I grew up there going to all these places as a kid and never understood or appreciated what a wonderful experience it was to visit the city as a tourist. The Art Institute, a Cubs game up the Red line, so many things done in my childhood were amazingly special to experience as an adult with years of perspective.
The dig, even with the smiley face was uncalled for IMO