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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: Last night was "surf and coop."
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 13:31:50 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-09, Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 3/9/2025 5:46 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On 2025-03-08, Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> On 3/8/2025 5:33 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>> On 2025-03-08, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Make it something close to what they would be expected to make with
>>>>> tips. They are the restaurant's employees so they should be responsible
>>>>> for paying their employees, not the customers.
>>>>
>>>> The customers pay the employees either way.
>>>>
>>> That's true.  But in states like SC where the minimum *server* wage is
>>> still a ridiculous $2.13/hour, it's kind of silly to have to depend upon
>>> the kindness of strangers to make up the difference between that and the
>>> Federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour.  (Technically the employer is
>>> supposed to make up the difference.)  Counting on the customer to leave
>>> more than a 50 cent tip on a $40 meal doesn't cut it.
>>>
>>> My manager and his wife eat out a LOT.  He had no idea $2.13 is the base
>>> server wage in this state.
>> 
>> Have you told him?  Ignorance can be remedied.
>> 
> Of course I told him.  He was shocked.  I gather he assumed everyone got 
> paid about $16/hour like most of the minimum wage workers in NY.
>
>>> And oh, it doesn't matter if you tip in cash
>>> or put it on your credit card because server income is reported based on
>>> sales rung at the register.
>> 
>> It does if I tip more than 15% in cash.
>> 
> How so?

The server tip income is reported at 15%.  She pockets 20% and follows
her own conscience about informing the IRS.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton