BUZZFEE: Applebee's Server Gets Stiffed By Pastor Who Gave Her Tip To God, Promptly Gets Fired By Applebee's

[The Evil Genius]

Federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13/hour.
My boss pays $2.25.

Individual states can still require a higher wage minimum.

[Bang]

I can't speak for that pastor, but I go by the rule, "If I got it, we all got it!" If God has blessed me with money and whatnot, what's the point of keeping it all to myself? At a restaurant, I will leave good tips. When someone outside 7-Eleven says, "Big man, you got any change." I give them a couple of bucks. It doesn't make me better than anybody, or make me feel any better about myself, I just feel it's the right thing to do. Aren't we supposed to help out our fellow humankind?

You are the man, ML.

~Bang

[TMK9973]

If it is a tip credit state - then the state has a $$ that is their tip credit (USUALLY half of Min wage - but it goes state by state).

Larrry is correct that the Restaurant however, must guarantee that the employee is making at least min wage, but only by pay period, not shift.
So if min wage is $8 in the state and I work 5 hours one day. Even if I'm only being paid $3 a hour and only got $20 in tips -I'm still owed nothing.
Now - if after a pay period, I worked a total of 40 hours and was paid $160 in wages and only $150 in tips, the restaurant must pay me $10 more. but it goes by pay period.

(OT rules are eve more complex. Its Min wage, multipile by the OT rate (usually Time and a half) minus tip credit. So if mn wage in your state is $8, your state tip credit is $4.00, you OT rate is NOT $6.00. Its $8. (8*1.5=12. 12-4=8).

If a server isnt making min wage, you cant just fire them, but you can look at a few things. Most places will quickly looked at record CC tips % vs declared cash tips. Point out that on CC tips (which are enterd into the system automatically) are avg 15%, but cash tips declared are avg 8%. That's clearly a sign.

to the issue at hand - This applesbees franchisee (And it was a franchises) was in the wrong, the pastor is a jerk.

[NLC1054]

Add me also. I can't stand having to figure out a tip. Just put it in the price. In my wife's home country of Peru, they pay the wait staff a good wage, have the price included and there is no tipping in her country.

You don't have a Tip Calculator on your phone?

My mom always told me a pretty good tip; say your bill is 20.00 bucks. You take ten percent of that ($2), then multiple that by 2 ($4) and that should roughly-ish get you to 20%.

[pjfootballer]

You don't have a Tip Calculator on your phone?

My mom always told me a pretty good tip; say your bill is 20.00 bucks. You take ten percent of that ($2), then multiple that by 2 ($4) and that should roughly-ish get you to 20%.

I'm terrible in math and I just recently got an IPhone. I had a dinosaur phone before that, so some of us aren't into the latest and greatest phone gadget. I can estimate pretty good at what my tip percentage will be, but when you are sitting there and thinking, "was the service great, good or bad?," you tend to overthink it.

[dfitzo53]

You don't have a Tip Calculator on your phone?

My mom always told me a pretty good tip; say your bill is 20.00 bucks. You take ten percent of that ($2), then multiple that by 2 ($4) and that should roughly-ish get you to 20%.

If you take 10% and double it that will always get you to exactly 20%, not roughly 20%.

[The Evil Genius]

If you take 10% and double it that will always get you to exactly 20%, not roughly 20%.

Not if you are figuring your tip off the post tax bill.



But that's another story altogether.

[dfitzo53]

Not if you are figuring your tip off the post tax bill.



But that's another story altogether.

Not that my first post was altogether necessary, but it's still 20%. The question is what it's 20% of.

[Larry]

But what if it's 1.9, repeating?

[NLC1054]

If you take 10% and double it that will always get you to exactly 20%, not roughly 20%.

Yeah well my math skills are so extraordinarily bad I always get scared I'll mess it up, lol.

[Predicto]

Tipping question - what's the consensus of tipping on take out food (as in ordering over the phone and picking it up to bring home)? Tip or no tip?

I always give 3 or 4 bucks. That guy drove out in the rain to bring me my pizza.

My general tipping rule is the lower end the restaurant, the higher percentage I tip. 20 percent is the absolute minimum. If the meal was only 15 dollars, the person still did a lot of work, and I will tip, say, 5 or 6 bucks. It's not much to me and their job is hard and they don't make much.

On the other hand, on the rare occasion that we go to Chez Paul and the bill is 500 bucks, I don't feel obligated to leave an 100 dollar tip. That waitstaff is not hurting, and they certainly didn't work 20 times harder than the girl and busboy at Denny's.

[renaissance]

I always give 3 or 4 bucks. That guy drove out in the rain to bring me my pizza.

I think he means situations where you go to the place to pick up your food. Not ordering delivery pizza.

[Predicto]

I can't speak for that pastor, but I go by the rule, "If I got it, we all got it!" If God has blessed me with money and whatnot, what's the point of keeping it all to myself? At a restaurant, I will leave good tips. When someone outside 7-Eleven says, "Big man, you got any change." I give them a couple of bucks. It doesn't make me better than anybody, or make me feel any better about myself, I just feel it's the right thing to do. Aren't we supposed to help out our fellow humankind?

I'm always torn on the panhandler thing. We have a metric ton of panhandlers in San Francisco, and a lot of them (not all) are just lazy bums who travelled here from other place because our weather is good and the people are easy marks. I hate to be the uncharitable one, but I can't help but feel that I am enabling an unhealthy and unproductive lifestyle when I give a healthy young man some money. Now, if the person is missing a leg or is mentally deficient or something, I feel differently.

Some liberal I am.

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I think he means situations where you go to the place to pick up your food. Not ordering delivery pizza.

Oh, whoops.

Yeah, those guys get a buck in the jar.

[MLSKINS]

I'm always torn on the panhandler thing. We have a metric ton of panhandlers in San Francisco, and a lot of them (not all) are just lazy bums who travelled here from other place because our weather is good and the people are easy marks. I hate to be the uncharitable one, but I can't help but feel that I am enabling an unhealthy and unproductive lifestyle when I give a healthy young man some money. Now, if the person is missing a leg or is mentally deficient or something, I feel differently.

Some liberal I am.

I am with you. In my neighborhood 7-Eleven, I know who are the lazy ones and who really needs it. It has gotten to the point where some of them know not to ask me because they know I know they will just go get some beer.

One dude did walk up to me and told me it was his birthday and he needed a drink... What he didn't know was that I was in the car the week before when he used the same line on my sister.

[Predicto]

I am with you. In my neighborhood 7-Eleven, I know who are the lazy ones and who really needs it. It has gotten to the point where some of them know not to ask me because they know I know they will just go get some beer.

One dude did walk up to me and told me it was his birthday and he needed a drink... What he didn't know was that I was in the car the week before when he used the same line on my sister.

Once I was hitting an ATM one evening and had a guy come up to me with a long sob story about how he was on a 24 hour pass from a nearby naval air station and he lost his wallet and now needed exactly $13.20 to take regional transit back to his base and he was going to be in so much trouble if he didn't check in by midnight and if I wrote down my name and address for him he would send the money back to me etc. He was a good actor, I was a softie, I gave it to him.

About ten days later he tried the same story on me at the same ATM. I just started laughing. He started into a set spiel of hurt and outrage at my lack of support for the troops before he realized that I was laughing because I had already been one of his marks.