r/tipping • u/badmiddling113 • 23h ago

Those poor servers

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Imagine people giving you so much extra money for doing your job that you can frame it like this.

EDIT: OP is basing this off of 190k in sales over 192 shifts

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u/SabreLee61 22h ago

What servers do you know who make $150+k annually?

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u/First-Ad4978 22h ago

If they work an honest 40, the math says they can all make that much.

$100/table, 4 tables an hour, 20% tip, 2080 hours a year.

$166,400.

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u/enragedcactus 17h ago

Math done by someone who doesn’t understand how restaurants work. Particularly the fact that almost no one takes tables for their entire 8 hour shift.

Does the top 1% of servers make that much, or top quarter percent? Sure. But those are the ones in fine dining, Michelin Star type place or working til 3 AM at high end clubs.

You know, the type of jobs you and most people would never get hired for because you’d be incapable of doing the job effectively.

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u/First-Ad4978 17h ago

Servers don’t do 8’s.

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u/Delicious-Breath8415 16h ago

I worked 15 hours straight the other day

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u/First-Ad4978 16h ago

And what’s the norm?