"aem" > wrote in message
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> Sheldon wrote:
> [snip preceding]
>> Huh? Employers are not required to pay waitstaff minimum wage now.
>> Many restaurants pay no wage at all yet highly experienced wait
>> people line up at the door for those jobs...
>
> Yes, it would be nice if industry practices rewarded those highly
> experienced people enough so they wouldn't have to line up for another
> job.
>
>> a good wait person in many four
>> star restaurants can easily earn six figures just from tips...
>
> Yes, but there are only 1 or 2 four star restaurants in Los Angeles, a
> county of more than 10 million people and thousands of eating places.
>
>> a good drink server in Vegas can easly do better than many CEOs,
>> and I mean from legitimate tips, not on their knees.
>
> Yes, many small businesses fail and their CEOs make no money -- oh no,
> that's not you meant -- well, in the casinos in Vegas and many of the
> clubs, drink servers pool their tips so the good servers make no more
> than the bad servers, and it certainly isn't as much as you seem to
> think it is.
I've worked for various Casinos in Vegas over the years. Mostly dealing
with payroll systems and I can say that servers generally don't pool their
tips. Dealers pool tips based on game and shift. The IRS came up with a
"Tip Compliance" program some years ago with the ideal of guarenteeing
tipped employees that they wouldn't get audited due to tip issues if they
would promise to declare so much per job per area per shift. There is no
way in hell a coctail waitress working swing shift in the dollar+ slots area
would pool their tips with another coctail waitress working day shift in the
nickel slots area.
Here's the kicker. The IRS negotiated each rate for job/area/shift with
each casino so you could be a coctail server in the dollar+ slots area
working a the swing shift at two different casino and have to declare a
different amount.
Also, as far as I've seen, the casinos all pay at least minimum wage. I
freaked out when I moved to Nebraska and found out a friend was only making
2 something an hour.
> The less than minimum wage + tips system results in good compensation
> for a few very skillful servers at high-priced eating and drinking
> places. The trouble with stingy federal legislation is that it applies
> to the vast majority who do not do so well. 99% or so of new
> restaurant ventures fail in less than a year, but it's not because
> paying $2.13/hour tipped them into red ink.
>
> -aem
Bret
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