It’s astonishing that some people can actually watch a video of an event occurring and still believe subsequent claims of “fake news”.
Trump tweeted today to praise the journalistic integrity of Turning Point USA, which in turn has been praising Trump for the last year.
The reason Trump chose today to praise them is presumably because Turning Point USA was recently in the news. But not for their journalistic integrity. The site was in the news because of allegations of racism.
Now as always, it’s a matter of interpretation. Some people might say that the statement “I hate black people. Like fuck them all … I hate blacks. End of story.” is indicative of racist beliefs. But others will no doubt argue that the statement is being misinterpreted.
People believe direct quotes from government officials are “fake news”
A lot of people are morons.
His labor department wants to allow restaurant employers to collect all the tip money and dole it out as they see fit, or allow them to keep the money for themselves.
Nothing will spoil your enjoyment of restauranting than working the other side of that equation. As Eugene V. Debs is my witness, those people suffer enough. Give 'em a fucking break.
*On a lighter note, an effort was underway here in Baja Canada to open an American Indian cuisine eatery. They advertised for a Sioux chef.
Nope. Did not make that up!
This is why I leave a cash tip if at all possible.
Caca de Vaca. In the few jobs I had where I was privy to knowing a person’s tip situation, the servers gave a portion to the bussers and bartenders to their bar backs. I don’t know whether the kitchen staff also normally participates, but the average wage for servers vs. line cooks would make this seem unlikely. Even dishwashers make more than servers, before tips.
Tip pooling has been a controversial issue for quite some time. As someone who spent most of my time as a back of the house employee, I am in favor of it.
The server does not control 90%+ percent of the experience that the customer has during their visit. Yet they get 100% of the reward or punishment for the service.
As a cook, I have had customers specifically ask to have a tip passed to me, because I was the one that cooked their steak perfectly, and those tips (almost) never make it, they get kept by the server.
Servers also do quite a number of shenanigans to increase their tips at the expense of the restaurant. A common scam for lunch was that they would not bother to ring in the soup and salad lunch the customer orders (as those were items they prepared themselves) and then keep the cash for themselves. In fact not ringing in things is the standard way for them to skim. They expect the customer to notice that they didn’t have to pay for their beverages, or soups or salads, or that extra bucket of ranch dressing, and to get an extra tip for that. Enough customers do reward that behavior that it is very prevalent.
So, because the servers are not charging the customers for all the foods and beverage that is consumed, food cost is high, so the back of the house doesn’t get a raise.
Servers also make far more per hour than back of the house. Your cite doesn’t say what you think it does, if you are relying on it to say that servers make less.
But yeah, if you go to a place that does tip pooling, and you keep cash to give to the server, then the server will steal it for themselves, and not share it with the rest of the employees who made your experience possible.
Now, as far as the employer taking tips, that’s complicated. In a small business, where the owners and managers are also the cooks and the servers and the bartenders, I don’t see why they should not take a portion of the tip pool to cover the costs of productive management.
Larger businesses where managers don’t do any production, they should not be taking any of the tips.
IMHO, tips should go to the production staff who are responsible for the guest’s experience.
Meh, chalk this up as one of the very few things that I agree with the trump administration on.
It’s a crappy thing to do for crappy reasoning, but it could very well spell the end of tipping in America which might actually be a good thing. However, do I think that GOP lawmakers will find a way to allow restaurants to pay servers even less in a tipless economy? You bet I do. I wonder if they realize they are monkeying around with a rule that allows restaurant owners to externalize their labor costs?
One reason I tip servers is because it is my understanding that they may be paid less than ( that’s LESS THAN ) the minimum wage. As long as this is not the case for line cooks, dishwashers, etc. then no one has any business pinching the waitstaff’s tips.
Your understanding that they are paid less than minimum wage is partially correct. They need to make at least MW after tips, or the employer needs to make up for it. There have been many situations where a server spends a couple hours serving one giant party who stiffs them. Then the restaurant needs to pay them a proper hourly wage for that time. (One of the reasons that “An 18% gratuity will be added for parties of 8 or more” has become prevalent).
But, with tips, they make much more. And that is the tips that they declare. In my nearly 20 years in food service, I never met a server that declared all of their tips. So, really, any figures that are based on how much servers make needs to take into account that they hide a fair portion of their income from the IRS and other agencies that would compile such data. The general guideline was that they declared 8% of their sales as tips. If you are tipping more than 8%, then that excess is pocketed off the books.
Another thing about tip pooling is that it encourages cooperation. I have had many times when I had servers standing around, waiting for their food to come up, while refusing to run food for other servers. Why should they care about the service that another table receives?
For that matter, why should I, as a (former) cook, care what type of service they receive? When they come back with a re-cook, or they messed up an order needing it to be remade on the fly, what motivates me to care?
This might be one of those libertarian “free market rah rah” stories that kinda sorta has a happy ending, maybe. I fully expect every restaurant manager to both pocket all of the tips and keep salaries at rock bottom, which means that only the most desperate of the desperates will ever consider waiting tables any more. Which will lead to a national crisis (because restaurants are one of the last few profitable venues for unskilled labour in first world economies - for waiting staff and managers alike), which will… maybe lead to something positive happening, like hanging the rich from lamp posts ? I dunno.
In any case there’ll be a lot of pain and suffering along the way, of course. But then, that should be the motto of the current administration - “we’ll unintendedly wake the people up through intense pain and suffering”. And even then, apathy might just win out.
Here is my new (only) favorite picture of the twerp. Only question: Does the twerp think Putin is to the right or to the left?
That’s real nice considering in some locations, the tips are ALL the waiters get.
Nothing quite like seeing the Chief Executive blast top officials of one of the agencies under his supposed leadership: http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/23/politics/trump-fbi-mccabe-baker-tweets/index.html
I think the current Bitcoin chaos might be a good insight into how unfettered unregulated “free” economies really work.
Huh? How is that legal?
It shouldn’t be, but when I lived in Fort Worth, I knew some people who were in the restaurant biz. The owners figured they made enough just in tips, so that’s all they got - legal or not.
There’s no holy day that Twitler can’t drag through the delusional, rabble-rousing, self-aggrandizing mud: Trump says he's proud to lead the 'charge against the assault' on Merry Christmas phrase
I see your point, but this bill is written for the benefit of restaurant owners, not employees. There is nothing in the bill that requires the restaurant owners to distribute all the tips to employees. In fact, I heard some lawmakers opine that the best use of the tip money would be improvements to the restaurant. Because that will increase business and inspire the owners to be more generous to their employees. I expect that if this bill passes the employers will immediately reduce all wages to the minimum for TIPPED employees, use the pooled tips to bring all employees to the minimum wage, and keep the rest.
This regulatory change is pay-off to restaurant owners who feel that paying full minimum wage to back of house employees in an undue burden. I agree with your basic points and if the new rule was written differently I’d support it. But as it’s written, it’s Trumpian.
Heh…
Don’t give him ideas, lady…