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Lancero

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2. Depends on where you eat.

Reply to shireen (Original post)

Sun Aug 3, 2014, 12:59 PM

Aug 2014

Some keep full tips, some have to turn tips into the manager so it can be divided equally amongst all workers, some get the 2.13 minimum and make minimum wage with tips with the rest going to the owner. To the last, if a employee gets a LOT of tips then they get minimum from the tips with the remainder going to the owner (As in, their employer doesn't pay them shit and uses creative accounting to list them as minimum wage, despite the entirety of that wage coming from tips.)

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question about minimum wage [View all] shireen Aug 2014 OP

You didn't misunderstand a thing. tech3149 Aug 2014 #1

Depends on where you eat. Lancero Aug 2014 #2

I don't think you have it right hfojvt Aug 2014 #3

Only circumstantially, I know for a fact they sometimes have to tip out the other staff TheKentuckian Aug 2014 #4

Not only that, but if you pay by credit card... malthaussen Aug 2014 #5

The Wiser Waitress has a lot of good eye-opening info: Lars39 Aug 2014 #6

We were always taxed as if we made minimum whether we did or not. I made $2.50+ in Mnemosyne Aug 2014 #7

$3.35 in 1984 is equivalent to about $7.68 now. PoliticAverse Aug 2014 #9

I still have a button that reads, "3.35 is a Crime". Nothing changes, does it? nt Mnemosyne Aug 2014 #11

US Labor Law on tips... PoliticAverse Aug 2014 #8

Well, it's technically illegal for employers to steal the tips, but it happens. Warpy Aug 2014 #10