Yes, but in the US servers get paid much less than minimum wage with the presumption that tips will make up the difference.
Businesses are supposed to make up any difference between what servers fail to earn as tips up to minimum wage, but:
It gives businesses an opportunity to fail to do this,
It means that minimum wage is what some servers effectively get, and
It effectively means the amount of tips servers get per hour is lessened by the difference between their hourly pay and the minimum wage rate; it’s a way for businesses to reach into server tips and get some of it for themselves.
There’s these new payday loan scam apps they call earned income advances or some bullshit like that where they take the loan amount and fees out of your next paycheck directly.
These asswipes charging what amounts to like 500% APR have the fucking audacity to ask for tips.
Everyone in this panel is underpaid. No change happens blaming one worker against the other. We’re all under the boot
Yes, but in the US servers get paid much less than minimum wage with the presumption that tips will make up the difference.
Businesses are supposed to make up any difference between what servers fail to earn as tips up to minimum wage, but:
Remember to tip your landlord
There’s these new payday loan scam apps they call earned income advances or some bullshit like that where they take the loan amount and fees out of your next paycheck directly.
These asswipes charging what amounts to like 500% APR have the fucking audacity to ask for tips.
And say thank you.