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Are you a waitress/waiter and ever asked for a pay raise? |
What was their half A** reason for telling you no? Tipped employees are usually paid under minimum wage saying you have to make the difference in tips. A really poor waitress/waiter who wins over the customer can get great tips even when they offer poor service. And tips are dependent on the restaurant. High priced, fancy restaurant patrons tip more than those at diners. "Research by Michael Lynn, an author and Cornell University professor of consumer behavior, indicates the amount of the tip has little to do with a customer's rating of the quality of service a person receives and more to do with how well the customer likes the server." He suggests: -Wear something unusual -Introduce Yourself By Name -Squat Next to the Table -Repeat your Customer's orders -Smile At your Customer -Upsell -Touch customers -Entertain Cutomers -Call Customers by name -Write Thank You and Draw Pictures on the Backs of Checks My take: Drawing pictures on the back of a check won't get a bigger tip unless patrons feel that you truly like and care about them. If you don't like or want to be a waitress/waiter your tips will reflect you attitude. Source(s): http://www.caller.com/news/2007/jul/24/h... http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/wml3... you would be better off working as a garbage man for the city, you get benefits, insurance and government pay. In Alabama you get $2.13 an hour for being a waiter/waitress and you never see that money because you make over a certain amount in tips so taxes takes all the $2.13 an hour. It's a rip-off even though I'm not a waiter/waitress. Especially because many people don't realize they don't make an hourly wage so they don't tip well at all. It didn't seem fair to me when I was waiting tables and I worked 5 hours for $11(bad night). But If restaurants paid their servers 7-10 bucks an hour, your cheeseburger would cost you $15 instead of $6. Your steak would cost you $30 instead of $14. And servers take abusive treatment from customers and/or cater to you completely because of the hope of a good tip. If they are getting the same $ no matter how fast they get your bread basket, the spring would be gone from their step. Do you think car salesmen would try as hard if they could make the same salary withOUT selling a car that day? I have never heard of a server asking for a raise. It's understood that everyone makes the same. Servers who have waited tables for 2 weeks make $2.13/hour as well as those who have worked at the same place for 20 years. Better servers make better tips. If a server wants a raise, they learn to wait tables better. They give themselves a raise. You are paid under min. wage because if you are a decent server you make way more than min wage. And I believe if you don't make that you are to be compensated to make up they difference. you should check it out. Some companies may not do this. |
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