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Originally Posted by Munchkin03
In my experience (beach towns in Florida 10 years ago), the servers got below minimum, while the hostesses and busboys started at minimum.
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The restaurant I worked at, the hostess got $5/hr (under the table), tips from waitresses not mandatory, and the busser got $2/hr(under the table) + 10% of waitresses tips. Although there was a few times when my friend was bussing that she would show me how much she got, and I KNEW the waitresses stiffed her, because I watched them count their tips. There was one waitress who would actually keep a seperate pocket, and tables she cleaned herself went into that pocket, and tables the busser cleaned went into another pocket. That's just plain rude. When one busser is working 6 waitresses who each have 7-10 tables, the busser is NOT going to get to every one of your tables. She does what she can. We only had a busser on the weekends, anyway, so it's not like the waitresses didn't know how to clean tables. I actually tipped the busser MORE than 10%, and guess what? My tables magically stayed clean, and those who were consistantly stingy with their tips had more dirty tables. Yes, I realize that creates a cycle, but if they would have tipped her fair to begin with, it wouldn't have happened like that.