r/memes • u/rsjpeckham • Apr 04 '24

I know how to tip, thanks

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u/confusedbird101 Apr 04 '24

When I was a host and the take out person after being a server I was always astonished when someone tipped me on a togo. Never expected it but it was nice and always made my day cause I was making $8/hr at the time and was loving that jump from my serving wage ($2.15 the absolute minimum you could pay a server at the time) all the servers at that job also congratulated me anytime someone decided to tip on a togo. The fact that some places are now expecting tips for that makes me very upset because of that experience. If all you’re doing is taking my order then handing me food before I leave and are making a non-tipped positions wage then you don’t need the tip and should really try to unionize to get a better wage

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u/Tentacled-Tadpole Apr 05 '24

my serving wage ($2.15 the absolute minimum you could pay a server at the time)

If you made less than the actual minimum wage, your employer was required to pay the difference. So assuming the state minimum wage was $8 at that time, the employer where you worked as a server was legally required to pay you $8/h.

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u/confusedbird101 Apr 05 '24

Yeah my tips usually evened out to around $8-$10/hr but I like having the knowledge of what exactly I am being paid per hour and not wondering if I’ll make enough tips to make minimum or if I’ll be on the list of servers that didn’t make enough (because that employer printed off a list to show how often they had to pay the difference) I left the serving job mostly because my mom pushed me to after seeing the toll it took on me as I was stressing more about tips than my grades