tips for the waiter?

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

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.

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.

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%

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

i wish you would frequent the establishment i work in more often..im in ohio....even tho the minimum wage just was raised to 6.85$ an hr....the loopholes and such didnt cover the service industry of under certain levels.....i work in a small town(under 7,000) 2 regular rstraunts and 3 pizza parlors...however just 8 miles away there is a much larger demographic reagion with multible restraunts many of them chains,and fast food......economics of the area play a large role in my tips....i see my job as a proffesional..i do my absolute best to pay attention to the customers under my direct care or indirect....im one who understands the teamwork ethic in a small establishment....as i may actually be responsible for as many as 12-14 tables at a time

this 5 tables at a sit down restraunt.....never happens to me... seriuosly tho the bill is rarely above 10$ per person...i am perfectly content with a 1$ per person tip....i dont expect 20% in this economy....i only get 2.15 from the restraunt ...so needless to say its the tips i rely on to make a livable wage... and im living thusfar

some ppl i know cant afford to tip..i understand some ppl are under the impression that i make 6.85 an hr...some ppl at one restraunt thought i was the owner......i never got a tip from them...some waiters think theyre services are being stolen...and technically they are....but i continue to give the best i can regardeless of my expected tip.......because i know the local economic state

t.i.p.....to insure promptness.................tips is plural.... the old tip used to be given at the begining of the meal...as sort of a bribe

you are an exeptional tipper regardless of where you live

When you look up the word "tip" in the dictionary it defines it as "to give gratuity to". When you look up gratuity, the dictionary defines it as "a small sum of money given as a reward for good service". I could go on and on defining the definitions, but in laymen terms, a tip should be something that you FREELY give as a reward to the person serving you and their GOOD service.

When you go to a restaurant, you expect to get the food you order in a timely fashion because you are paying the place of business to provide it for you. If they fail to meet this requirement you have put upon them, they do not deserve extra money. However, if the service you receive could be characterized as above and beyond, why not recognize this effort with a return effort on your behalf in the form of money.

As soon as people start thinking of the tip as a mandatory thing, waiters and waitresses will start thinking that they are automatically owed extra money just for doing their basic job. I have actually met some of these people who demand a tip automatically just for gracing your table with their presence, and I have to say that their service was horrible.

Tipping has its time and its place just like not tipping does. If I go to a restaurant and get have to search for the server to get refills or have to send food back, then I do not tip one penny. On the other hand, there was one time that I tipped 30% because the waitress was so incredible at giving us our proper space, but being there to meet our every need at all times. I must say that unfortunately, the latter of these circumstances is the rarity.

Tips are generally based on a percentage of the price of the meal. For example, 15% (good), 18% (great), or 20% (outstanding service).

a good tip any server is about 18-20 %. Double the sales tax is your not sure what to leave that is usaully fairly close to that percentage.

Smiling.... right, and of course, the most deserving of those tips are the waiters at the Old Clam House on Bayshore. But you should double it for the waiters who also used to hang out at Dago Mary's. ;-)

Well let me guess : you just start as waiter somewhere ...:-)

With ten bucks going to have a full pizza dinner with my girlfriend in any SM , tip ? , yes , of course included .