tips for the waiter?

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I just double the sales tax and thats the total I leave for tip...Show more

Ok, I have been a server at several places and most all restaurants pay their servers $2.13 an hour. This is because you rely on tips. Unless you operate illegally and put yourself subject to an investigation, a server has to report a portion of his/her tips. Unless they can prove otherwise, a server must claim that he/she made tips equaling 10% of their total sales. This means that if you sell $500 of food/drinks, you must claim you brought in $50 in tips. The government then taxes that income and takes it from your $2.13 an hour. I have received many checks that were void on account that it was all used up on taxes. Most checks I received for a forty hour work week were around $20. I worked at three star restaurants. Most of the time I would average $10 - $12 an hour cash. There is NO way I would do the job for less. If I was a woman, I would work an easier serving job and be a cocktail waitress in a bar and make more then this. Even at the restaurants I worked at, the bar tenders were paid the average state minimum wage, not the $2.13 an hour server minimum wage....Show more

I have worked in the restaurant industry for 35 yrs. Trained as a Chef, I have been a manager, caterer and now work in fine dinining as a Server. I have worked in casual style restaurants. TIPS = To Insure Proper Service.

This translates differently for each person being served. By law I must claim at minimum 10% if not 15% of my total sales which includes sales tax nightly. I also am required to tip out the bar staff out of my take home earings. Generally 5% for wine and beer and 10% for cocktails. If there is bus staff or food runners, we are also required to tip these individuals from our take home earnings (tips). This all ads up. Servers on the whole make $2.13 an hour, taxes, ss and any food eaten and not paid for has to be covered by a server.

If a client (customer) walks out with the signed top copy of a credit card receipt and does not leave a tip on the second copy, the server never earns the tip.

Most service people are generally attentive without being overbearing. We are trained to make your time with us enjoyable. Some people though are not happy, we have to put on a smile. Generally if something is wrong with your food, it is often the mistake of the kitchen or wheel person who plates up the food and does not read the ticket properly.

Most restaurants have computers that allow changes in food items, but time and space to get it all in is limited.

It is our responsiblity as server whether casual or fine dinning to ensure the customer is taken care of properly. To anticipate the clients needs before they ask. Dependent upon the management and style of Restaurant also are factors in the type of service you might receive.

Hours are long usually 12 hour days if working doubles. Most service personnel have 4 or 5 tables to attend too. Some tables require more time than others.

Those of us who have made a profession from serving know and understand the profession. Serving is just that it is a professon. I have been out with people who treat their servers poorly, and are rude in general. I do not usually associate with these individuals often. If they think it is a joke or due this generally, you have to wonder how they treat other people in their lives.

I have earned 3 degrees, but have never been able to find work in them. Told over or under qualified too many times. Serving in restaurants has allowed me to travel the USA and World, meet interesting people, own my home, vehicle and live a comfortable life.. I learn my clients likes and dislikes in food, and even become friends.

If a person waits tables or serves food as a way to make ends meet. Your tips will probably reflect this. If you approach the job as a profession with a positive attitude you should succeed. Serving is a big acting job, you are there to make the person(s) have an excellent experience and want to come back and better yet request your service again.

Age, gender, sexual orientation, race has nothing to do with the server or client. If you pre judge a person by any of these or a number of any other things you are setting yourself up for a problem. Every one deserves the same treatment....Show more

tip waitresses more!!!, but honestly... i round up to an easy number and round to the next 10's spot.. like 55 dollar meal, 11 dollars is 20%.. but go to 70 normally with good service.. or with okay service, break out the small bills, get as close to possible to the 20%..
or since I'm a teenager.. when i get bad service.. probably more frequently than others, some meals I've not even received refills and decent restaurants.. which really pisses me off, it destroys the meal.. what is the point of spending all that money on food to not be satisfied.. tips at below double the sales tax.. or if it was slightly disturbing the meal, rounding down to the dollar instead of up.. like 59, going to 11 dollar tip to go to 70 dollars
or a wonderful meals of service and friendliness up to 1/3 to 50%...Show more

Think about it- say its a $20 tab- it makes a big difference tipping $4 and not $3 which is 15%- if you can afford to go out to eat then tip respecfully- these people work hard and have to tip out - they are trying to make a living - the $1 extra dollar makes a huge difference over time...Show more