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Originally Posted by Fuzz
This is my favorite bit:
Here's the thing...customers tip on the entire service, that means food quality, greeting, busing, clean dishes...so it isn't just your tip. It is everyone's, you are just the one collecting it. The back of house has a motivation not to screw up because a share of the tip is theirs.
The money isn't "taken out of your pocket" because that percentage was never yours to start with. And if someone is getting paid more money than you, they are probably worth more, for any number of reasons. Should your increased salary and tips increase to be even with them now? What is this, communism?
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I bet a lot of customers dont know that servers are forced to share tips. The article says that forced tip sharing is illegal in Quebec. I think a lot of customers believe their tip is going to the server and are not aware that the server will not receive the entire amount.
Why dont restaurants post on the receipt what the tip sharing policy is? Or on the menu? They have a note about mandatory forced tupping for groups so why cant they add a line with the tip sharing percentages and the mandatory payouts by the server.
This is a dirty secret in the restaurant business that many customers arent aware of.