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Originally posted by jehzsa:
Whenever possible, I prefer to leave cash tips.

If the service was good, I always tip in cash with the hope that the person will simply stick it in their pocket, and that will be the end of it.

I usually just slip the cash in her g-string....whoops, wrong forum...

I don't know for sure how it works at Great Clips but they always put the cash tips in the cash drawer during the transaction along with my cash payment and don't seem to make any extra notice of who received it etc. So do the workers just divide the tips evenly? Didn't seem fair...

so I started waiting until the transaction is done and the register drawer is closed to hand them my tip... and then sometimes they quickly pocket it but some will go to the trouble of ringing up a no sale to reopen the cash drawer and put the tip in.

But then that doesn't seem fair to the other workers if one pockets some of her tips and the rest put all theirs in the pot for division.

What's a well intentioned tipster to do

My 16 year old daughter is bussing tables (first job) at one of the nicer restaurants in town and gets minimum wage ($9.75) + 1% of tips. She averages right around $16.00 an hour. I can only imagine what the servers and bar tenders are making.

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Originally posted by berto:
CA servers get minimum wage plus tips. I wish tipping would go away. The customer shouldn't be forced to play middleman in a fair wage dispute between employer and employee.

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Originally posted by Edmond:

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Originally posted by jehzsa:
Whenever possible, I prefer to leave cash tips.

That's what I do. I give it directly to the server.

Even when it's cash tip, they still turn it over. It's not like nobody will look. It does screw the honest people who won't steal from their coworkers.

What I did on one occasion when I ascertained they share tips, I confirmed with her that if I gave her a book then she doesn't have to share it, right? So I had a booklet with me, stuck a twenty in it as a bookmark and handed it to her. She was a server at Johnny Rockets, teen-ager but exceptionally good worker.

Certainly you guys must realize why some restaurants group tips and divide them up. There are usually other people involved in your service even if you don't see it. The hostesses, the busboys, the guy serving water, the guy helping to serve food...I think even the dishwashers at my wife's restaurant get a cut. Point being, it's not just your server involved in your service.

At least in the case of my wife's restaurant and her colleagues, I know that they all work to help each other get through the night because they all end up making more money when everyone does well.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Certainly you guys must realize why some restaurants group tips and divide them up. There are usually other people involved in your service even if you don't see it. The hostesses, the busboys, the guy serving water, the guy helping to serve food...I think even the dishwashers at my wife's restaurant get a cut. Point being, it's not just your server involved in your service.

At least in the case of my wife's restaurant and her colleagues, I know that they all work to help each other get through the night because they all end up making more money when everyone does well.

All the more reason that tipping should just be eliminated and the business had to pay reasonable wages and directly charge the customers. The current tip system just makes generous patrons subsidize the meals of the cheap ones. (Think about it.)

flashguy

I have been in places where all tips are pooled and then evenly split. In a case like that I will try to slip the server their tip on the QT. I don't do not think that practice is either right or fair.

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Originally posted by SIG 229R:
I have been in places where all tips are pooled and then evenly split. In a case like that I will try to slip the server their tip on the QT. I don't do not think that practice is either right or fair.

And if the server is pocketing that money without pooling it with the others, then he or she is cheating someone else out of his money. It's theft, plain and simple.

Then you have industries like food delivery etc. The national pizza chain I deliver for pays minimum wage when you're in the store but when you checkout on the computer for a delivery you get paid $4.40/hour. 80-90% of the time you're on the road making $4.40. Additionally, we don't get the delivery charge. Basically, 90% of what we earn is tips.