Tipping in America

[udsweetpea]

As We're trying out the DDP for the first time next month, wont our tab for cocktails be brought to us seperate from our bill for our meals to be paid w DDP credits? And wont that alcohol/ extras charge already have the customary 18% inc?

Yes, your alcohol bill will be given to you separately, and it will have an 18% gratuity included.

 

[Mulan82]

Well, what do you know, I can be wrong, but really I thought it would be the same throughout the US, really I can't base my tips off of what each state's laws are as there is no way that you can possibly know every state's laws if the the Federal Government will allow such a thing, the reason I kept saying so is that I have read the laws, as posted at my employer, which posts what is required by California Law and the federal section notes nothing of an exemption for "tipped positions" I do suppose that part may be omitted considering that it doesn't apply in California. By next year our minimum wage will be in the double digits in California.

I never have understood the reasons behind tipping either, really why can't the restaurants just pay a decent wage and say no tipping? I know there are a few locations here like that and those are always nice.

im not even going to bother reading the rest of the posts after this one...

all i am saying is that in some states, you get paid below minimum wage because you will arguably make more than that when you leave work. thats why you have to declare tips. so in New Jersey, i get paid 2.13 an hour. i don't get the 5.15 minimum wage because most like, when i leave work i will have already made at least 10/hr. like tonight. i worked from 5:30-10:30 on a slow night. really slow. i had 10 tables all night. my last table left at 9. my first table came in at 6. so technically i really only served for 3 hours. i walked with 80 bucks. in that same amount of time on a friday, i will average 150 on a slow night to 200 in a dinner shift. i don't get a paycheck. i get taxed so much that it ends up being like 2.00. who wants a 2.00 paycheck. i mean, even if you tip a dollar because the server was lousy. theres nothing worse though, than knowing that you really worked your butt off at a table and you get nothing. tonight a server really worked hard for guests that weren't going to be satisfied with anything. their check was 100 some odd dollars. they left him 5. sometimes i don't get it.

 

[Mulan82]

ps. sometimes i wish that i got 8.00/hr plus tips.