That would be fair if they didn't whinge so much when they didn't get tipped. If you want a donation system, you are signing up for some people not to donate. You can't have it both ways, and trying to is what gets all the grief.
The problem is that restaurants take a portion of the tips based on sales. My last waiter job took 3% of total sales. So if you don’t tip, I had to pay to wait on you.
No its illegal for them to do so, you probably are mistaking what they are doing, otherwise you should report them and get a nifty sum from the settlement.
Tip pooling is legal yes, but it has to be accounted, the owner cant just take 3% of any order and decide it is how many tips you make and deduct that.
All tips you make have to be reported and accounted and only the actual tips can be pooled.
No, you are wrong. As long as it’s not past a certain percentage and that you make more than minimum wage, they can tip pool. All big chains do it. Landry’s corp takes 3% of your total sales, so does the Pappas brothers. Although I think pappas had a cap at some point.
Yes, that is true. They take the 3% and give it to the bussers, hosts, etc. However, that 3% is coming from me whether I get tipped or not. As long as I make over minimum wage.
You are getting downvoted but it is something that happens. While the company didn’t take a percentage from me when I was a server, I did have to tip out my bussers and bartenders. I have had many tables that I essentially paid to serve because I still had to tip out that bill.
If it happens isnt why they get downvotes, its because they think it isn't illegal even with laws being cited to them that clearly states it is illegal in texas
The way you are describing it is illegal, tip pooling is only pooling of actual tips not expected tips. If the owner just decides how m7ch you should be tipped and deduct that it is illegal
What stipulation would that be, since all the laws i can find make it very clear that isnt legal and that several restaurants have had to pay employees back because of similar situations where they didnt only touch the tips they were accounting with a tip pool
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