How Low Would Pay Go If Minimum Wage Law Were To Be Abolished Like The GOP Wants?

[theKed]

52. It really shows

that you have no restaurant experience. You only have a surface understanding of that part that directly interacts with you.

However, as someone that's worked in the industry in a lot of different places, and a lot of types of restaurants, you are really ignorant of how these things operate. And yes, as a ridiculously overqualified member of the trade, I do have something of an idea what you value and what impacts your dining experience...it's my job to know those things.

When the server tips out the host(ess)/bartender/kitchen/busser/etc, it's not you tipping them. It's the server tipping them for making their job easier. They tip the busser so that the busser moves quickly clearing their section, so the server can get more tables in. They tip out the kitchen for making their food properly and promptly, helping ensure a positive reaction from the customer (and a better tip at the end). And so on. Their tipout doesn't even come from the tips directly. The vast, vast, vast majority of establishments take tipouts as a (tiny) percentage of overall sales and redistribute it to others.

On the other hand, if the servers are pooling their tips between themselves and splitting them up after the shift, I don't necessarily agree to that. But, that's an oddity for the most part, especially the higher up the restaurant foodchain you go.