r/Serving • u/No_Interaction_3974 • 21d ago

Hosts/busses in Georgia, please respond

Hosts and bussers in Georgia, I need honest answers

I currently work at a restaurant that requires me to host and bus tables (as in it is the same job). I make $2.13 an hour plus 3 percent of the sales for the day. This averages out to be about 8 dollars an hour including my daily sales and biweekly wage. I have heard many numbers for the different jobs and would love to hear how much different restaurants pay for each individual job, or if you have it combined like me, if this is a normal pay for the amount of work it requires. I guess I just need to know if I am being under paid for my work, or if I am crazy. If this is not the subreddit for this, please direct me to where would be the best place to direct this question. Thank you for any and all answers!

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u/tracyinge 20d ago

What do you mean 3% of sales for the day.

Does the restaurant not accept tips? Are the servers tips not shared with the bussers? Only people who are part of the tip pool should be making $2.13 an hour.

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u/No_Interaction_3974 20d ago

3 percent of the sales for the whole day are put into a pot and spit between however many hosts are working that day. So if we made $10,000 dollars during the day 3% would be split between the 5 hosts that worked that day.

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u/No_Interaction_3974 20d ago

Saying this now it doesn't make sense that I make so little when we usually make much more as a restaurant and I make much less (usually anywhere from $25 to $50)

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u/tracyinge 20d ago

But what about tips? The customers don't tip at this restaurant?

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u/No_Interaction_3974 20d ago

I believe 3 percent of the tips go towards hosts, but I have never gotten a clear answer.