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Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by sharemywin on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @02:19PM (#18241950)
A lot of states are paid less if it's a job with tips:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage

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Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by ApolloFortyNine on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @02:58PM (#18242481)
Also on that page:

>If wages and tips do not equal the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour during any week, the employer is required to increase cash wages to compensate

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Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by scroot on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @03:22PM (#18242766)
Do you think in a real workplace people are going to constantly bring this up with their managers?
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Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by threatofrain on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @03:33PM (#18242882)
I think what happens in a real restaurant that doesn't share tips is that if you don't make enough you'll just be let go.
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Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by asdff on Thursday October 18, 2018 @12:13AM (#18245837)
I think the IRS would spot this from a mile a way.
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Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by ip26 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @02:29PM (#18242093)
But is a barista etc one of those jobs?
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Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by awalton on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @02:39PM (#18242222)
Yes. Any front-of-house restaurant staff that gets a share of tips are subject to those laws, and it's ridiculous. Worse, some restaurants even force the tips to be split between dishwashers, who actually are making minimum wage in many cases, so waitstaff get crushed even harder.
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Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by gamblor956 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @02:57PM (#18242474)
It's illegal to force waiters to split tips with non-tipped workers unless the restaurant gives up the "tip credit" (referring to the portion of the minimum wage that they get to treat as paid out of tips) for the split tips.
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