except in Alaska where the minimum wage is $7.15, even for tipped employees.
and just about all restaurants up here tax you on 8% of all sales. if you
don't claim enough then it goes to the allocated tips which the company does
for you and then you just have to hope that they don't screw you.

the MAJOR issue in restaurants is not so much the tax procedures but
management who go in and change your hours to less than what you worked in
order to get their bonus!

stuart anderson is FAMOUS for this!!!

m

"zuuum" > wrote in message
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> http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/q-a.htm
>
> An employer of a tipped employee is only required to pay $2.13 an hour in
> direct wages if that amount plus the tips received equals at least the
> federal minimum wage [of $5.15] , the employee retains all tips and the
> employee customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips.
> If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages of at
least
> $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer
> must make up the difference.
>
>