Quote Originally Posted by BobbyFresh
Actually in most restaurants tipshare is mandatory. Tipshare involves giving the equivalent of between 1-3% of your sales in addition to turning in whatever money is due to the restaurant. Most establishments have no cap when it comes to tipshare and I can say that when I worked at Applebee's during college, I tipped out as much as 50 bucks of my tip money on more than several occassions.....Need I remind you that hostess typically make anywhere from 6-10 dollars an hour before tipshare? So in effect, the server is left with the shit end of the bargain, almost from beginning (2.13 an hour)to tipshare. Also, servers rarely get checks as they are taxed on not only the hourly wage but tips as well...
See, there is more of my gripe. The restaurant owners pass the duty of filling the wage of the server on to the patron. Being a server is worse than I expected. That's why I tip, regardless of my twisted notion of the concept.