Worked for a payroll firm that had a couple dozen restaurant clients.
Tips vary wildly between employees, not payrolls. Some rock out every check, I have no idea why some of the others keep trying to wait tables.
You can’t be paid less than state minimum wage if your tips don’t get you there. The payroll software almost never made use of that option because no one ever falls below. We were a couple of months into the new software when we figured out that hadn’t been set, some edge case where the employee worked but didn’t get enough tips.
Service jobs are highly seasonal here in NW FL. You better be in the top 10% to make it year-round.
Thank you for this very unique perspective! Very informative!
I don’t like the heat, so I go to the Jersey shore in the off season, and I always wonder about the wait staff that can make a living during the winter. It’s generally a ghost town when I’m there. It’s gotta be tough in the off season in a place so dependant on seasonal guests.
It would be interesting to evaluate the preferences of workers whose employers have been moved out of the tipping system and into one of regular wages.
Worked for a payroll firm that had a couple dozen restaurant clients.
Thank you for this very unique perspective! Very informative!
I don’t like the heat, so I go to the Jersey shore in the off season, and I always wonder about the wait staff that can make a living during the winter. It’s generally a ghost town when I’m there. It’s gotta be tough in the off season in a place so dependant on seasonal guests.
It would be interesting to evaluate the preferences of workers whose employers have been moved out of the tipping system and into one of regular wages.