Re:Do tips make for better service?
by wombatmobile on Saturday January 15, 2022 @01:18PM
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> tips were probably 150% of my income
That makes you an entrepreneur.
But unlike other entrepreneurs, you don’t get to deduct the costs involved with turning up to the market.
I assume they mean 60% of total earnings, not 60% of base wages. Tips can't end up being more than 100% of total earnings.
Yes. In which case "150%" would be 60%. (150/(150+100) to save the readers the math)
Re:Do tips make for better service?
by Enginerrrd on Saturday January 15, 2022 @01:09PM
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They can be more than 100% of claimed income though.
Depends on which state...some allow sub-minimum wage if getting tips and some require minimum wage no matter what. So someone in OR or WA will get $14/hr + tips.
Re:Do tips make for better service?
by patrick451 on Saturday January 15, 2022 @01:07PM
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What do you mean that tips were 150% of your income? If you made $50/hr, and $47 of that came from tips, then tips were 94% of your income, and the wage was 6%.
Re:Do tips make for better service?
by Enginerrrd on Saturday January 15, 2022 @01:10PM
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It means he claimed $20 in income from tips, and pocketed the extra $30 in tips. You two are just using different definitions of "income".
Sounds like we have tax cheat on our hands
Re:Do tips make for better service?
by bluefirebrand on Saturday January 15, 2022 @01:55PM
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I'd be willing to bet that everyone who works for cash cheats their taxes.
But not as much as millionaires do.
I have always wondered. Can you ask a receipt for a tip you pay in cash and then collect those and send to IRS? Like proper good citizen should?
Re:Do tips make for better service?
by Enginerrrd on Monday January 17, 2022 @08:11PM
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They actually have something like this in other countries. I can't recall exactly how it works, but it's something like store sells younsomething, you get the receipt, and then it's somehow incentived so that people send their receipts into the government, so people actually do it and then you have a second party that basically reports sales to the government.
Re:Do tips make for better service?
by bluefirebrand on Saturday January 15, 2022 @02:07PM
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No idea. I don't live in the States.
I imagine no one would ever give a receipt for a tip though.
Re:Do tips make for better service?
by lacksconfidence on Saturday January 15, 2022 @02:03PM
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Odds are good that every person I've ever tipped is a tax cheat.
"Tipping also passes a chunk of risk from managers to servers, especially when between 20% and 60% of a waiter’s income may be in tips, as is often the case in America"
That number seems low, or at least in my outdated experience, it's low. I spent most of the 90s working in restaurants and tips were probably 150% of my income. I was paid very little per hour, and made quite a bit in tips. I then had to claim tips, which was always a smaller number than I actually made. I was paid $3 something an hour, made like $50 an hour in tips, and claimed like $20 in tips. Maybe that's not how it works now?