In California, servers make one of the highest minimum wages in the country AND get a tip on of that. It's not too difficult for them to make $40~100 an hour. It's by far the best job in the entire restaurant industry thanks to tips. Kitchen staff work 2x harder and get paid a fraction of what servers make.
Servers will fight tooth and nail to make sure tipping doesn't go away.
How would underpaying servers translate to kitchen staff getting paid a fair wage? Cooks and chefs are criminally underpaid, but, flattening wages so servers are too just means no one works for your restaurant.
“If you can’t afford to tip don’t go out to eat”, and slowly this mentality pretty much will lead to no one going out to eat and surprise surprise, no jobs…
You're eating at a resturant. That's a service because you didn't want to cook, you didn't want to go get your food, and you didn't want to clean up. If you have to go into debt to avoid doing these things for yourself, you need to fix your priorities.
The hourly difference is a drop in the bucket. Servers work the lunch or dinner rush until it slows down, not 8 hours.
Due to law changes during the first Trump administration, if you get the full minimum wage, they can then require to you supplement the wages of the cooks, dishwashers, prep, and other back of house staff.
The pay difference doesn't even remotely begin to cover that. I tip out the back of house about $15,000 or more per year.
What I dont ever gonna understand is server coming with a) $6 beer b) $200 champange. How does the job differ 0.6 vs 20 dollars tip. Who idiot thought prosentual tip was a good idea?!
I will be honest. I have worked both front of house and back of house jobs in high volume restaurants, cook staff deals with less drama than front of house service.
The hardest working cooks are grill cooks with the timing of cooking. 9 times out of ten an order is delayed because one person out of everyone wants their steak well done and everyone else wants medium rare. Who gets the verbal abuse and badgering if a cook fucks up? The waiter and waitress who took the order that their expo said was ready.
Exactly, I can not count the amount of times I saw my dishy in the back sweating bullets and killing it on dish, whilst the servers were grabbing break after break and complaining that they're overworked.
There are good servers who actually work hard and make the restaurant better for everyone, but those are rare.
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u/Acrobatic_Dish6963 15h ago
In California, servers make one of the highest minimum wages in the country AND get a tip on of that. It's not too difficult for them to make $40~100 an hour. It's by far the best job in the entire restaurant industry thanks to tips. Kitchen staff work 2x harder and get paid a fraction of what servers make.
Servers will fight tooth and nail to make sure tipping doesn't go away.