Not getting coins/change back at restaurant. Ne w trend?

[Tara922c]

Your check should have reflected your hourly earnings, plus any credit card tips from that pay period, minus tax and SS on your actual hourly earnings and 8% of your actual sales (not to be confused with you actual earnings, let's not get into a discussion about tax codes and ethics ). That 8% accounts for customers not tipping and servers 'tipping out'.

A non-negotiable check in a negative amount would imply a large amount of cash tips that pay period, as would a series of such checks. A non-negotiable check in a positive amount, or a series of them? Would indicate a pay-stub representing direct deposit

A non-negotiable check in the waiter world means your 2.13 an hour didn't cover your all taxes paid. Many waiters pay money to the IRS at the end of the year. When I was a server, 95% of my pay checks said, "non-negotiable this is not a check". It had nothing to do with my cash tips. I kept all my tips every night reguardless of if they were credit card tips or cash tips. My credit card tips were automatically claimed for me, and if I claimed less than 10% of my cash sales I got written up. My total tips appeared on my checks.

I didn't have a cashier that processed my checks. Normally, I would bring to work with me around 40 bucks of small bills, and jingle change. I was my own cashier. At the end of the night I ran my server report. It took my total sales, minus my credit card sales, credit card tips, gift card sales, and tip pool (3.5% of my sales) and what ever the number at the end was what I owed at the end of the night when I checked out. Sometimes it was a negative number meaning my credit card tips were more than my cash sales. I took the amout of money I had at the end of the night, subtracted my orginal 40 bucks, and that is how much I made at the end of the night.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Man... every time I see a post about tipping, minimum wage of states always comes up and I am forever greatful to live in a state that doesn't lower minimum wage for certain tipped employees. In Oregon, the minimum wage is $8.50/hour, across the board. And it's going up to $8.80/hour in January.

 

[TanyaS]

I had no idea there was such variety by state. Do tippers in states like Oregon with no lower amounts for tipped employees tend to tip lower than in those states that use lower amounts, I wonder.

This list of wage minimums by state shows quite a difference.

Learned something new today.

 

[happygirl]

Man... every time I see a post about tipping, minimum wage of states always comes up and I am forever greatful to live in a state that doesn't lower minimum wage for certain tipped employees. In Oregon, the minimum wage is $8.50/hour, across the board. And it's going up to $8.80/hour in January.

Do the servers get tips? Is the prices at restaurant super high?

 

[DeniseinNS]

What kind of restaurant do you work in?
I've worked in several, both chain and independent, and I was always paid $2.13 + tips. (It's been over 22 years now though).

I work in a chain restaurant but I am in Canada. I have been at the same job for 12 years and have always been paid what minimum wage is in my province.

 

[PelletierBears]

I would of politely but firmly told them I wanted my correct change. Then of course the tip would of been affected after seeing what the waitress/waiters reaction to my request was. If everyone did that all that change would add up real quick.

This happened to me a few times here locally and once in DISNEY...at the Plaza on Main Street!!!

When it happened here locally it was at chain restaurants and I gave a lower tip both times then tracked down the manager to complain. What a great way to suppliment your income! Keep .50 from every table and over the course of a week you've made a few bucks...by stealing it!

It hasn't happened it quite a while but I pay close attention now.

When it happened at Disney I asked the waitress for my ...however many cents and complained to customer service.

 

[kaytieeldr]

I'm in NJ. I worked in the same restaurant for 7 years. The wage was $1.57/hour. That all went to taxes. The computer system automatically assumed you received 10% of your sales as a tip and based paying taxes from that. At the end of the night you could enter in any additional tips you received for tax purposes but you could not deduct. Therefore, a pay stub was given but no check no direct deposit no money at all from the actual restaurant to the server. In addition to this, we had to pay 1.75% of our sales to the food runner and 2% to the bussers. Again all of this is based on sales not tips. So if someone dined and left absolutely no tip it actually cost me out of pocket to serve them.

You can believe a business should pay a server all you want but that belief does not actually pay the server your tip does.

It's interesting that you keep saying 10%, because the IRS minimum reporting requirement is 8% of gross sales http://rrgconsulting.com/tip_reporting_article.htm. It sounds like your employer was looking out for your and their interests mores than most or what, but it sounds like a smart way to run a business. If you were reporting cash tips daily and weren't getting any money in paychecks, it sounds like you were getting the bulk of your tips in cash.

 

[kaytieeldr]

A non-negotiable check in the waiter world means your 2.13 an hour didn't cover your all taxes paid. Many waiters pay money to the IRS at the end of the year. When I was a server, 95% of my pay checks said, "non-negotiable this is not a check". It had nothing to do with my cash tips. I kept all my tips every night reguardless of if they were credit card tips or cash tips. My credit card tips were automatically claimed for me, and if I claimed less than 10% of my cash sales I got written up. My total tips appeared on my checks.

I didn't have a cashier that processed my checks. Normally, I would bring to work with me around 40 bucks of small bills, and jingle change. I was my own cashier. At the end of the night I ran my server report. It took my total sales, minus my credit card sales, credit card tips, gift card sales, and tip pool (3.5% of my sales) and what ever the number at the end was what I owed at the end of the night when I checked out. Sometimes it was a negative number meaning my credit card tips were more than my cash sales. I took the amout of money I had at the end of the night, subtracted my orginal 40 bucks, and that is how much I made at the end of the night.

Ah, okay. When you choose to take all your tips on a daily basis, it makes absolute sense that you wouldn't also get money in a paycheck (by the way, a server who reports 100% of their tips and claims the proper number of deductions on their W-4 shouldn't have to be paying the IRS anything at tax time).