Question for waitstaff

The IRS assumes 8% per check total, or at least that’s the minimum you can get away with declaring. A pattern of always declaring ONLY 8% though will probably eventually get someone audited; maybe not on the server level but likely on the establishment level. Then they will come after the servers.

That doesn’t necessarily mean that you have “different servers”. Where I work, we rarely run the food to our own tables. The way it works, we run food whenit gets ready to whose-ever table it is to assure that the fresh food is delivered in a timely manner to ALL guests, not just those who are lucky enough to be there when you have time to go check on their food to see if it’s done every minute or so. Also, we have one server scheduled each night that is scheduled for “Food Runner”, meaning that that is ALL they do that night.

~TygerD.

This happens occasionally, but it’s unlikely that a fellow employee would take the tip. They have to keep coming back to work. Before long, they will be suspected, set up, caught, fired and/or prosecuted.
At the end of the night, when everyone goes out to whatever bars offers SIP,(Service Industry Personel), discounts, the person is balcklisted, (after a fashion).
Tip thieves don’t last long in the industry.

Customers, on the other hand… I’ve never known of an instance where this has happened, but given the nature of humans, it prob’ly has.

Rest assured that 99.9%+ of the time the server gets the tip. YMMV.

Although Ruadh is presumably based in Ireland, not the UK, I recently visited the UK and was surprised to find that on three occasions in restaurants, the credit card slip did not even have a space to enter a tip. It was cash or nothing. I’m English, and don’t remember this before - so has something changed?