"The Industry" -- is this normal?
My girlfriend has a job as a server in a chain of Calgary pubs (which will remain nameless for now). At the end of the night, she has to tip out 2% of her total sales (not total tip, but the sum of her sales) to the bartenders, which is normal, but also 3% to the "house". This, apparently, is the company itself. Also, no tip out to the kitchen. Is this standard practice? Seems really fishy to me.
This place also doesn't pay overtime to its kitchen staff, many of whom work insane hours (11 hour shifts, 6-7 days a week, kind of thing).
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