Over paid waitresses hurt the kitchen staff.?

Question

Can anyone else see the logic in how the tipping culture hurts the non wait staff restaurant employees.

Please tell me you can see it too, please ?

If a higher markup was charged on the food (instead of tips) a fairer wage policy would result.

Answer 1

I think rex hit the nail on the head. And where do you live where there are over-paid waitresses. That's an oxymoron if I ever heard one. The law states that tipped employees only have to be paid half of minimum wage. In my state I get paid $2.13 an hour. I hardly get a check. If the laws were changed then maybe this would work but until then restaurants are only going to pay their wait staff the bare minimum. But we are supposed to be salespeople and if more people tipped the correct percentage then it is like we are getting commission based on how much we sell. it just sucks that it's the customers that have to fork over that money. I also wish we could get paid more an hour and not depend so much on tips bc not everyone does it correctly. All I can do is work hard to do my best and hope people notice that I brought their food out correctly and on time, kept their drinks full and their table cleared while maintaining pleasant conversation with a smile on my face. I genuinely like what I do but I do wish that I was paid accordingly for it either way.

Answer 2

the answer is this....waiting tables is a sales and marketing position when it is done well. Although FOH and BOH take different skill sets, the wait staff is pressured to sell, and the pay is reward based (do a bad job and dont sell...dont get paid).

Working BOH is not easy, but for most places the personality skill set is much lower than that of an experienced waitress/waiter. Dealing with the public directly is tough, and draining. In the restaurant culture we have today the public is indemnified with too many privileges in my opinion, and can be horrible to wait on. The short answer is this...if you work BOH and don't like it.....get the training and move to FOH. the hours and pay are better, but it takes a special kind of person to be good at it, Yes anyone can wait tables, but just like BOH, not everyone is cut out for it.

Answer 3

I agree,because some people do not tip good or at all. I think the money need to be better for the work done.

Answer 4

i am a waitress and there is no overpaid waitresses. the kitchen staff normally get paid min wage or higher.at the restaurant i work at it is higher. on a normal day i can make anywhere from 40 to 100 dollars. most the time it is lower so i make about 7 dollars an hour. waitress's minimum wage is only $2.85 a hour. so it all pretty much comes out where everyone gets payed the same.