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"Wayne" > wrote in message
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> "Peter Aitken" > wrote in news:s251d.1750$n%
> :
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> > "Dog3" <dognospam@adjfkdla;not> wrote in message
> > 4...
> >> "<RJ>" >
> >> :
> >>
> >> >
> >> > I'm not a business tax expert, but
> >> >
> >> > it would seem that
> >> > if the service charge is a mandatory fee,
> >> > then it would be taxable income to the business.
> >> >
> >> > And if the business isn't reporting it.......
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > If the "service charge" is a tip,
> >> > then its payment should be optional.
> >> >
> >> > How do you legally enforce payment of a tip ?
> >> >
> >> > <rj>
> >>
> >> Theft of services.
> >>
> >
> > But a tip is by definition voluntary.
> >
> >
>
> What really frosts me is the "tip cup" or jar or whatever, that one finds
> at the register in places like coffee shops, donut shops, etc., where all
> the clerk (I hestitate to say "server") did was pour a beverage or fill a
> container with food and hand it to you. What the hell should they be
> tipped for? All they did was their job, no more...no less.
>
> --

I agree 100%. These people are not paid less than minimum wage, as are
waiters. I have never put so much as a cent in one of those jars.

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Peter Aitken

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