Uh... 'Render unto ceaser that which is ceasers...?'
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Caesar. Or Cæsar, because how often do you get to use æ?
Caesar*
Ah damnit. Youre right, of course. Ill take the humiliating L
Caelsar? (okay the pun was bad sorry)
Call me a godless skeptic but I'm going to take this with a grain of salt.
I waited tables for 5 years quite some time ago. I never had someone skip out on the total bill, but I did get a few of these as a "tip". Since I'm in the US, I actually lost money on those tables since we had to pay a flat percentage of our "sales" into a pool that was split between other front of house staff.
The tip thing is a well known one and while I doubt anyone would be as brazen as the situation in OP, I've known some very brazen people.
Yeah, these things are notoriously faked.
There's a very slim possibility that a KKKristian handed this to a beggar on the street, and the beggar was canny enough to use it to get the meal he was begging for in the first place. Which sounds like a Bible story, except it needs a bit about wild boars or locusts destroying the KKKristian's garden or something.
Fellow Christianism hater?
"not that the server got stiffed on a tip"....
it's only when the owners get robbed that they'll say something about it
Yeah, if owners were required to cover the difference when waiters get stiffed or under-tipped, I bet things would change pretty quickly.
They are? Unless you mean to an arbitrary tip amount like 20%. Businesses are required to pay servers minimum wage if tips don’t make it. It’s still super scummy and they should pay living wages by default, but they can’t just not pay people.
That minimum wage for servers can be as low as $2.13 an hour, depending on the state. The amount and how it is applied varies widely and all of the minimums are pretty low. That server needs every last dollar.
You are misunderstanding. A server must be paid $2.13 an hour (depending on state) plus tips. However if the tips do not raise the server to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 (or the state's minimum wage if required) then the business must pay the difference.
Basically if a server goes in for a 4 hour shift and doesn't have a single customer/tip they must at minimum be paid by the company $7.25 an hour.
Funnily enough this is stated a couple of paragraphs down in your very source:
If an employee’s tips combined with the employer’s direct (or cash) wages do not equal the minimum hourly wage of $7.25 per hour in each workweek, the employer must make up the difference.
A specific tip amount, yeah. Minimum wage is pretty low compared to 20% tips. Fully agree that just having a living wage across the board would be the best solution, though.
Sir, this isn't a Wendys
I'm sorry, we only accept cash, Visa, MasterCard and American Express.