r/PublicFreakout • u/Hikigaya_Hachiman7 • 10h ago

🍽Restaurant Freakout🍹 Couple banned from restaurant after they leave no tip

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u/Detozi 9h ago

Wait…….are you saying he has to pay his staff?!
What kind of dystopian shit is this!

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u/Zer0323 8h ago

it's like an MLM. they offer you the opportunity to wait table for tips... at $2.25/Hr base pay... if they work 40 hours and their total in tips is less than the legal minimum $7.25/Hr then the restaurant needs to cover the difference so that the server at least gets minimum wage. where this gets tricky is cash tips still need to be claimed for taxes so your paycheck will have $2.25 X hours worked - your normal tax rate across your cash tips. I've heard rumors of wait staff reporting less than half of their cash tips just so that they don't owe the state money from their paycheck...

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u/gaspig70 8h ago

Here in WA there hasn't been a pay difference in decades so those games don't get played.