How To Make $100,000 as a Waiter
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"High-class"
*shows salt bae*
I have a feeling that was tongue in cheek XD
F1 drivers spent over a million on a single dinner so I guess you could call a restaurant high class if you spending a mill on dinner
Yeah yeah I get it.
He's now a bad guy after what happened at the WC Final.
@@salmansengul nah, he's just a shit cook. That FIFA stuff was just icing on the cake.
I never visited any of his restaurants, so I can't say anything about the taste.
The prices are high. High prices aren't anything special when it comes to these kind of restaurants.
Meanwhile dishwasher working 10x as hard making 12 bucks an hour
good servers is worth more for the customer experience.
I don't give a crap how good the service is, if the glasses or silverware don't look clean, I'm leaving right away.
@@thomass4908that’s usually the severs job, polishing, checking for finger prints blemishes etc..
The server is usually eye candy
Usually they get tipped out a percentage of server sales, unless they’re getting fucked over
My dad works on the strip. He calls it “The Golden Handcuffs” he wanted to do more but while raising a family there’s no way he could’ve quit and do something else. The money is too good but physically and mentally taxing
Do you feel bad knowing that you and your siblings are the main thing holding back your dad from living his dream?
@@CheekoLFreako dude chill they didn’t ask to be born or decide what their dad did with his career or life lol I’m sure they all love each other
@@CheekoLFreakodo you feel bad having 16 subscribers after making youtube videos for 13 years
@@parkerbenoit44 "ask to be born" has to be the most coward phrase in the history of mankind.
@CHICO EL FREAKO I've got 2 kids.
I currently sacrifice my life and health just because I grew up poor and I'd 100% die happy knowing they won't ever know what it's like to be poor.
Yes, 100% it's one of the best decisions I'll ever make it my life
most restaurant especially in the strip and in NYC are starting a pool tip system so the government can get that money which is how the world works now
hope everyone makes some money this summer coming, appreciate the 5k likes 👍🏼
No any cash tip in a pool still isn't taxed... and tip on card is taxed in a pool or not... they are pooling so all servers and staff can have a better income
@@mikelcampbell6072 Not yet
also so the cooks dont get shafted
@@ilikecinema1234that isn’t to say that the top isn’t supposed to be taxed, it’s just hard for the IRS to prove you made that money
@@TheGarchompxd I don’t think chefs get a tip out at the end of the night in NY or Vegas.
I’ve never heard of that in other major restaurants on the east coast.
The government gets their piece unless it’s in cash too. Doesn’t matter if it’s pooled
I made 50k last year and took three months off. Steakhouse server.
Where do you live ? I made 50k last year and I’m still poor
@@UTP_ENThe doesn't live in a communist state
@@bruh-so8vpwhat is a communist state for you? Or rather where ..
@@UTP_ENTdamn fr? Even in LA my spendings come up to like 25-30k so I get to save 45k each year if I really went bare minimum.
I make $70k working at steakhouse in central ohio. Work aboit 3 to 4 nights a week. But ill tell u this, idk anyone i know that would last 2 weeks.
Damn I gotta stop stripping and start serving!!
B…but you serve by stripping already! 😅
Strippers get tips too!
@@lestefani9517yea but you get to have your dignity and probably make more money
yeeee go be a server but also if you still got that itch to strip then u can pull up to my apartment I gotchu
You're getting ripped off if server are making more
When I was a kid my mom was a server. She would work 3 days a week, 8a-8p. She would typically pull in $500 a day in tips. That was in 2005-2010. Servers can make really good money. My mom didn’t even work in a high end restaurant, she just worked at a buffet truck stop off I-65, it was just so busy that it was near impossible to not make great tips. My mother is also a beautiful woman so I’m sure that the truckers treated her better for that too.
Yeah you either go volume or quality to make money as a server. Good for your mother
Are you sure she was just serving?
Serving the parking lot or what?
@@radiusbot whose gonna tell him😂😂😂
$500 in 1s 🤣
In pittsburgh in my early 20s I had a year where I made 85k. In Pittsburgh. I knew guys that worked at this fine dining establishment with me who were making 110-120. This is ten years ago. Servers that have regulars at fine dining restaurants can absolutely kill it.
Dang, that’s like 200k in 2023 money.
I have buddies from school that bartend at a college back in our hometown. They make anywhere from 50-80k, then go live down at the beach once the college lets out, sporadically picking up shifts at bars/restaurants for some extra walking around money. Not the worst way to live, but now that we’re in our 30s, it’s much less cool than it was.
This raises the question: are you tipping the service or the bill?
If you and your friend are at a bar and both order drinks at different price points then what is the justification for a different tip? did the level of service the bartender provided suddenly change?
Tell Denny chick to go to 5-star.
@@franko8572 go be the CEO of apple
No it's because the service is better. I've been to a steakhouse ONCE and it's the best service I've ever had. People don't start out at these high end places.
@@Mandatoryuser Your missing the forest from the trees.
If I go to a bar and buy a drink that costs $100 vs buying a drink that costs $10 has the service I received changed? so why would I tip more for one than the other?
@@ryant2568 again yes bartenders don't start at high end bars. Some fancy whiskey bar in NYC will have better service than my local pub with $1 beers. Is that service bringing 10x the value to your life? That's a question for you to answer not me but pretending like there is not a hierarchy in the service industry is wrong to do.
And 90% of it goes up their nose where I live. They blow 70k during tourist season and get evicted in the winter.
what losers
True. When u get money everyday you loose the value of it. Always need to save up for slow season during the winter
Same here unfortunately. I think the experience of “easy come easy go” is at play, not that they don’t work for money but that every shift you leave with cash (and you could pick up more shifts if you gotta) and the value changes
Key west?
@@ChefBurns1 Destin
My girl is a bartender where we live, in a small town with about 10,000 people. On a good Saturday night she’ll bring home $600+ in tips. I %100 believe this. There’s crazy money in being a waiter/bartender if you’re not a complete ass and have a good employer
We can, but we don’t want to. This industry is horrible. The only good thing is the people you work with. That’s if you’re lucky.
Facts
Definitely agree as my 1st highschool job was at a restaraunt in a kitchen with staff I LOVED for 4 years. They made the job so much fun and that’s the only reason I stayed so long
Don’t do it then. Acquire a skill and demand a price.
Real
Even in low end chains the servers make damn good money. I worked at a red lobster in a town with only about 35,000 people in it and the servers would typically make about 150 to 250 a night. Not major money but for a server level job that's damn good. Meanwhile I was busting ass in the kitchen making maybe 100 a day lol
😂 true
But you don't deal with all the bs customers.. 🙄
@Mike Jackson no just the 100 degree kitchen, grease, burns, cuts, and preparing food for hundreds of people lol. I've done all sides of running a restaurant and they all suck ass, but serving isn't any harder than cooking.
@@mikejackson7881I love when people who have never served say this...now 9nly do we make 150 200.. we make it in 4 hours lol and dealing with "bs' customers literally happens like 1% of the time.. unless you suck.. and even then they're still nice. Unless they're black.
@@mikejackson7881There are a lot of people that deal with “bs customers” in their day to day life but without the tips
I averaged over 100k per year in Colorado working at a casino restaurant. Bought 2 houses, invested in retirement. Then I bought 2 laundromats. If you don't mind sacrificing your weekends and family life it can work for you. But you must have a plan to get out with something for that sacrifi
Save your biggest tips for the Denny's server working a non-busy hour at 2 p.m. getting $3.15/hr.
They make minimum wage if tips don't cover that or the company can be sued. It's difficult to make minimum wage as a server because of tips.
@@bufficliff8978 Did not know that. Thanks for the info.
I used to work overnights at Dennys and I made crazy money on the weekends. Serving is addicting honestly lol
I've been working in restaurants since high school. Imagine me a 17 year old bus boy in Miami suddenly with $600 of disposable income every single week. I went from nothing to so much so fast.
Now I'm 29 and I do a lot of online freelance work but I maintain a restaurant job on weekends bc those 2 days still make me $50-80k a year, I literally see no reason to ever stop.
You used to be able to make that kind of money. There's very few jobs like that anymore.
If you get a good restaurant, you're not going to get the hours. Unless you been there for years.
What the fuck are you talking about? My take home is around 90k and I started making that almost immediately when I started my spot
@@Sirpopeington no you didn't. Where in Las Vegas do you make $90,000?
@@Sirpopeington I can almost guarantee you're not making $90,000 a year waiting tables. If waiters in their restaurants were making that much money they would hire more waiters.
There may be one or two restaurants in Vegas that make that kind of $.
@@jasonggabbottnot true. The issue is these are the creme of the crop waitstaff.
@@jasonggabbott you're wrong. You can make that much all across the country
I use to pull in $150-$200 a night, those were the college days
I used to work at Olive Garden and good servers would pull $400 on a Friday/Saturday night every week.
This was 10 or so years ago so idk if it's better or worse lol
My friend moved from the uk to NYC. He made more in 2 nights working in a bar than he made in a months salary as a data engineer at EY
What about the cooks doing the real work?
Exactly!
Both cooks and servers are necesary. Working the kitchen is hard but dealing with people and always being nice to strangers is very draining too
Yeah, never received a tip in my whole career as a chef. And no, waiting does not compare to chefing, for many reasons.
Idk ive worked on the line,dishpit,busser,food runner, and now server for a few months I feel like serving has its own challenges compared to boh jobs where you do grunt work
@@kennytickert3735 I'm not really familiar with American restaurants, judging from the terminology. In European restaurants, waiting is a normal job, part time type deal for most. Chefing is like a qualified and trained trade. The hours, demands and commitments are completely different. Most waiters are teenagers, most chefs are grizzly working class men. To compare is mind-blowing.
I serve at a High end Italian restaurant in California and made $102,000 working 5 Nights 35 hours a week. No stress when I leave.
Stop the cap
@@Petrols don’t be mad you entered the wrong profession.
@@BarryMcCaulkinerr I’m not my job is an Honorable job
@@Petrols “honorable job” probably some labor job working incredible hard physically for simply not enough money.
@@BarryMcCaulkinerr that’s facts
We can always count on graham’s spidey senses to tingle when someone’s not being frugal near by 😂
At really expensive high end places you’re often not expected to tip (or fully tip %20) on alcohol, especially if it’s a bottle of wine or sake or something like that. Still make bank but it’s not like they’re getting $1000 tip on the alcohol alone.
Just got 2 years of serving expierence. Can finally work at any of these high end restaurants
Vegas banquet bartender here. When I work banquets on the strip (I only work in one hotel) the least I’ve made is $500/$600 the most I’ve made $2,500 in less than 8hrs. That’s what got me into opening my own liquor catering biz here in vegas. I don’t compete with the giants. I do the “small” venues that holds 200-300 people. In one day I can make $3k-$4k after paying my staff and cost and 15% taxes aside. This week was a slow one one for me. I only had one small event, 160 guests 2hrs. I made $2k. Granted I’m constantly restocking my warehouse with supplies , getting out of my comfort zone and visiting new venues. It is worth it though. My logo is “I go to parties for a living” 😅 my friends and family look down on me bc they see me as “just a bartender” But I found my niche.
Good fort you. How does one get into that business?
Even if this was true, it constitutes about .001 percent of restaurants high end or otherwise.
No it doesn’t. Servers make a very good living. Currently I pull around 90k take home.
@@Sirpopeington not still in the small percentage. Serves on average earn around 50k highest 60k a years. That’s what majority of servers are earning.
@@Sirpopeingtondepends on where u work, also you have to remember some states give full hourly and other states allow you to get paid as low as 2 dollars an hour that’s a huge pay cut into your taxes and yearly earnings.
It is true, but like you said, it’s a small portion. Most places servers can and do make a decent living, but most restaurants finding success will just bring in more staff, leaving you fighting for hours.
Not at all. Do the math. If a server has 10 tables in an hour, with 2 guests at each table, with each tipping $2, that's $40 in tips in one hour. If those 20 guests are generous and tipping $5 instead, that's $100 in tips in one hour.
They really should share with kitchen staff
kitchen staff gets paid a decent salary. They generally make more than any server. When they making less than the server, they leave and open there own place because that's how good your food was.
No they shouldn't.
Nope, people skills are more valuable than dish washing skills. Sorry.
If I'm buying a $5300 bottle of sake. It's not from the restaurant and if it is, I'm not tipping on it. That's fucking crazy
It’s not for you man. There’s levels to this game of life and we’re at the bottom lol.
@@Robertmalagon I would buy the bottle. Not tip on it. Nobody should. They are stupid if they do.
That's because you're poor 😂 I work in high end dining and people that are buying $350 shots of cognac don't care about the extra $70 tip I get for it.
@@christianrosas8917 it's idiotic no matter how much money someone has. Of course the servers don't think so. They are getting paid. How about use some logic though, instead of just insulting people?
@@zacharyconrad2469 it’s to show off. If you run in wealthy circles everyone is passively trying to show up the other with their wealth.
Used to work at a fine dining steakhouse.
Average night was 500-800 take home.
Before tip out a good 1,000-1,600.
Best days are week days. Sometimes i would only serve 3-4 tables.
Best night in sales was 9,000.
This takes years to get to that level. Wine knowledge, spirit knowledge, pairing, understanding cooking styles. Only the people with a lot of knowledge would sell a lot. Easily selling a $1000 bottle of wine takes experience. Now selling a 1000 champagne to start. Then pair a red wine for main course and then finish off with cognac or scotch. It takes time and yes i would only work 3 days and earn 4-5 after taxes. The challenge with working more is that you can earn net 10-13k a month but you need to work doubles and pay almost 3-4k in taxes so that means you earn 14-16. Before taxes.
Yep... this is the outcome of tipping culture. I dont have a problem with them making bank. I have a problem with being expected to tip.
You wont be expected to tip if servers actually got paid for their eork
@@skoomakity8769 They do get paid.
@@generallysweet8434No they really don't. Servers don't have to be paid minimum wage. With taxes taken out after accounting for their tips and everything I have seen servers get paychecks for a full week of work that were less than $2. Tipping is why restaurants in the U.S. are so cheap relative to European restaurants. You can find a really good chicken parm at a nice sit down place for $17.99-$23.99. In a country like the UK that same meal would be $32-38 and the portion size will be HALF of what you get here.
Quite simply put, if you can't afford to tip you can't afford to dine out. Period. I'd much rather go out and get a $60 meal with drinks and tip $15 for a total of $75 than have to pay $100 for that same meal just to avoid the idea of tipping.
@@liamengram6326 I'm Canadian. At least where I live none of that is a thing.
Hence the reason I hate it. They get paid what they get paid. Then tips are added on. Which is good. But dont expect me to pay extra for no reason.
I saw a waitress make 550 dollars in 5 hours worth of work on a Sunday I was blown away I’m still a line cook tho
We do the same with valet work, leave yo shit
I can’t stand when they complain about their bad tips
I always love how it's standard in most countries that the service gets to keep the tip and the kitchen has no right to it first of all outside of the US chefs usually make as much as the service people but on average they are in service one to three hours longer per day and honestly how much tip would the service get if you just spit on the plate and handed it out?
They share tips with the food runners and bussers. Up to their daily discretion. Been like that for a long time.
Some do and some don't. Depending on where you are working.
I give 34% of my tips to bar and service staff and I still walk with over 100k each year
As some who never got good tips and sucked at serving I never agreed with or felt good about the tip sharing thing
Working in high end restaurants.. a lot of customers want the wine on a separate bill and don't tip much on it
These guys sit around sipping iced coffee, talking about shit they are so far removed from it makes no sense to have them discuss such rudimentary subjects. This is what the weebs round table looks like.
+1
hater
i made 160k last year as a full time server lmao
Not 150-200K, but as a person who has worked in higher end establishments, the tip game is really strong. Rich people like to be pampered and treated better than everyone else, make them feel special and they’ll basically throw money at you. Being a good salesman and being able to upsale them on the sly also help. The same can be said for regular people as well. Also FYI for the editor, Salt Bae ain’t got shit on chefs like WGP or a number of other chefs, he’s an internet fad.
“Rich people” like to be pampered? Who the fuck doesn’t like to be pampered? I’m lower middle class. I wanna be pampered and treated better than everyone else too.
what a dumb ass comment.
He's also known to take his servers' tips.
Used to make the managers take a d manage the tips to distribute about 20% to the servers and pocket the rest
You’re on point about the sales skills. If you can pick up some of those skills at work or with a side gig, it can seriously help out in so many different types of work.
Yes, because it is harder to serve a $5,300 bottle of sake than a $40 bottle of sake. Everyone knows that.
Tips are based on price of the item most of the time not for the task done
@@MrDeserteagle411 yeah which is dumb. Kinda the point of my sarcastic comment.
@@MrDeserteagle411now say it out loud and make it make sense
@@joshuahawley2073what do you do for work? So I can begin advocating for your boss to lower your paycheck
@@superjj1850 I do work in analytics and get paid a market rate for my skills, just like every other industry out there. If I go work for another company, it doesn't matter what price their products/services are, as long as my duties are relatively the same, I will get paid relatively the same.
Or you could work at a restaurant that doesn’t allow gratuity and make nothing off a $300 ticket. It sucks.
As it should be. You should be paid for your labor, and not off of tips
$5 grand bottle of Sake is crazy I actually had Sake for the first time last week and was surprised how good it was. Almost like flavoured Vodka but not sweet flavour just creamy and refined.
Do you think a waiter is expecting a $1000 (20%) tip for carrying a bottle of sake to the table? 😂
Once you get to a certain level of service, 18-20% tipping on the bill is like super common and anything less is actually weird. You haven’t been or worked in the environment so you probably don’t understand
A lot of places have a gratitude fee where it's automatically included in the bill. Also, just generally when you serve at places where the customers are spending a ton of money per meal, they often do tip really well. $1000 tip for carrying a bottle of sake isn't unheard of.
Absolutely yes. If you can’t afford the tip on the $1000, you shouldn’t be ordering it.
This tipping system in the US is stupid. Just go around other countries and observe that tipping is always optional. The waiter puts the same effort to serve a $50 sake vs a $200 sake. Then why should he/she deserve a higher tip for serving a more expensive bottle ?
@@yelnatsch517if the tip is optional, you shouldn’t get mad if they choose their option
as someone who did serving and bussing dor high end resort restaurants they usually all choose to share tips, because we almost always would make more money if we shared tips than didn't
Meanwhile the boys in the back make minimum wage
Meanwhile the cook in the back works like a dog every day and can barley pay his rent 😂😂😂😂
You definitely pool tips at high end restaurants because the cooks need love to
wtf is he talking about!? 99.9% of waiters and etc don’t make even a quarter of what he said, 🤦🏾♂️ rich folks always wanting to comment on poor folk lives with their false beliefs and lies like bro chill tf out
I mean, they aren’t wrong. I worked at a luxury hotel in my city as a bartender and I made about $70k. This wasn’t even in a major city like Las Vegas.
Bro if you’re working a high end restaurant that’s selling +$500 bottles of wine and tomahawk steaks for $300-$500 each table on average is gonna spend $850-$1,400 if you only take 8-10 tables a shift you’re walking out with $750 at the minimum and this is just one shift lol not even talking about doubles yet now do that X 4 shifts a week X 4 weeks in a month X 12 months in a year…. $144,000 min trust me these servers ain’t no “Broke Folks” now if we talking a server at TGI Fridays of course it don’t compare but there’s servers and bartenders out there clearing that easy money bro 💰
@@AyeeWhyUS47 i worked as a waiter for 6 years 2 different restaurants they weren’t high end restaurants they more like mid i never walked out of a shift with more than 120 in tips and that was on my best days. i provided above and beyond service i can dm you proof of some of the reviews i got. also how many waiters do you think are working at high end restaurants? over 93% of waiters work at regular restaurants meaning they don’t even get 40,000 in tips annually let alone 100k this guy is speaking about the very small and minute amount of waiters who work in high end restaurants, but in a way that makes it seem like it’s a huge amount of them which is absolutely false. that’s my point
@@AyeeWhyUS47 i liked ya comment because you’re not wrong but you’re speaking for a finite amount of waiters compared to the rest
This is out of context, they're specifically talking about places on the "Strip" in Las Vegas but are also bringing in places like the French Laundry or other really high end restaurants which are not the average for sure. JW knows thats, but thats not what he's talking about its from a larger talk about high end dining industry, he also talks about the insane food waste typical of fine dining etc.
Small high end restaurants are the way to go. Usually as an employee of whatever position, you’ll make 2% house earnings on top of tip out and hourly lol it’s insane
As a Las Vegas "Union" bartender. I can absolutely confirm this.
I used to work in the kitchen of a few different restaurants. If I ever went back it would be as a server at an expensive restaurant. I didn't want to deal with the customers at the time, but now with the prices at some of these places, it would be worth it
5,305 after tip
“Easily” 😂
If every server in Japan perfected some English, they’d be millionaires 😂
What’s always insane to me is the level of service in other countries such as France and Japan are miles ahead of any service you will receive in the states and yet you don’t tip in those countries. Just goes to prove how broken the tip system is in America.
And the dishwasher that works 10 times hard makes 17$ a hour no tips and is treated like shit by other staff
Back of the house is much easier than front of the house. FOH you have to deal with customers the entire shift, even if you’re having a really bad day (plus run around and work hard). Back of the house you can just keep your head down and grind out your shift. All dishwashers are free to apply/ pick up shifts as servers, why don’t they? Because they don’t possess the skills servers have. There are way more people that can wash dishes than serve, which is why servers make more money. Value is defined as something that’s either rare or hard.
This is why you don't tip on wine, you exclude wine when you're calculating your tip, a lot of restaurants even segments the wine amount away from the food and drink in the tip sheet to make this easier....
It's funny because a good bottle of sake shouldn't cost you over 10$
It's funny because you've clearly never had a good bottle of sake in your life if that's what you think lmao
I never worked at a high end restaurant, but I did work in a restaurant that had a pretty decent sized college crowd that would come through and even the bad servers would make anywhere from $150-$200 a night in tips, a majority of those tips being cash and unclaimed. We had an issue where some of the younger servers would make a certain amount in tips and then not show up for their other shifts because they made enough for them to be satisfied for the week, but then if they were to be cut shifts to others who did show up or it was a slow season then they would gripe and complain and start up with the "servers don't make enough in tips" crap. Like I agree there are some places where that is true, but the way they were arguing it was straight up crap.
Lol thats dang near every single restaurant
First they don't pay you enough so you need tips, then they share tips to give em even less money
We never got rid of the owner-slave mentality. We just changed the name of slave to worker.
It was never to help the employee to begin with
I’m a server at a Chili’s, my hourly pay is $2.13 all of my gross wages go straight to taxes and I just get a nice 0$ paycheck every two weeks, so yeah I’m pretty dependent on my tips
@@anamoose461 then change jobs
@@anamoose461That’s the problem America didn’t make food service jobs to be “real jobs”. Statistically and economically they prefer production jobs as they boost the economy on a international level. The US economy has little benefit from these jobs and they purposely hinder the earnings potential for that reason. When you look at the Baby boomer era where unions were high and production jobs dominated the market the economy was booming. Unfortunately politics, culture and laws created more service jobs which lack global competition and don’t provide unionization or anything sustainable, growing by over 30% of the market now. And guess what the economy has never been weaker. Hard truth is, (me as a former server can relate) your job was never made fore you to rely on.
Graham Stephan is that one really weird but fun earth science teacher
To set the record straight
SERVERS PAY TAXES ON 7% OF YOUR BILL
IF YOU TAKE A 5300$ BOTTLE OF SAKE THEY PAY 371$ OFF IT
PAY YOUR SERVERS AT LEAST 7% EVEN IF THEY DIDNT MAKE A GREAT JOB
Sometimes you’ll be surprised with the tips people leave lmao I’m telling you from experience from working at an expensive restaurant. I honestly always went out of my way to please all my customers. Most of them really appreciate it and reward you rightfully. But some people don’t get out of the $5-$10 tip cycle. And it’s very annoying
So your only choose to be kind and pleasant with customers with the expectation of receiving something and something acceptable to you. That's real nice.
You're not entitled to the same wage as a teacher or a doctor or an engineer as a professional food mover. Waiters are the most entitled people on earth.
@@Salman-ji7en but you are entitled to receive a top costumer experience and leave no tip? I’m sorry man but that’s not ok
@@chrisbrownlov1 well I’m not choosing it’s my job. Just like any other costumer service related job in the entire world. Now if I do my job of giving you a top service and provide you with all you need to have a great time why shouldn’t I be rewarded? Here’s the thing. When you go to a restaurant and leave no tip, the server still has to pay a percentage of the amount of your table to the buzzer and the hostess. If you leave no tip the server basically has to pay for you. And honestly man let’s be real why wouldn’t you reward someone that made you have a great time? I’m just saying
@@goodnightvids Top customer service is your job. Like a receptionist. You're not special. If anything the cooks deserve the tips infinitely more than the waiters.
I'm a cook and there was a bartender that was complaining about the company raising the tip share from 1% to 2%. If he asks me for anything I make him wait
This video is a bit misleading. While it is true that a tiny minority of servers can make really good money, it is also true that the vast vast majority of servers cannot earn that kind of money, no matter how good of a job they do. I worked at 6 restaurants over 15 years. The most I ever made in 1 year was 42k.
Depends where you are located. If you can work downtown in a major city 50 hours a week, it’s you will make 6 figures
@@dirtyorganboy2264 Wrong. Pay in this industry fluctuates MASSIVELY. Some nights you pull 500, 600, 1k. Some nights you get 20 bucks. Everywhere has a dead season.
You must have been a lousy server!🤣
Made $51k last year part-time at a small pizza place!
Why can’t American employers pay their worker better
@@Christionemit’s true but some places are just good. I worked near Disney in Orlando and. Yeah, there was a slow season but our slow season was not a typical slow season. I still made good money in “slow season” and we still had long waitlist during slow season. But during busy season it was always absolute mayhem. Don’t get me started on when Florida opened up again and people were traveling here like crazy in 2021. I made my rent in one weekend that year, it was fucking insane. It’s definitely very dependent on where you work. Location and restaurant.
Made 35k working part time and full time in the summer last year. I'll pull in 200 Saturday and 300 every Sunday morning at a really busy breakfast place. Nothing like drinking at the pool at 3pm with your friends who haven't done shit and you already made 300 bucks cash that day😂
Grant's always "across the table" or "knows someone" in regards to dumb spenders im callin cap bro blows his money like a crackhead
Some a-holes, lots of rich ones, don't tip on alcohol
Nor should they
They shouldn’t tip😂
No. Tip is already added. A group (6 people or more) automatically 18% gratuity is added to the bill. If the rich people are drunk, when signing the bill they would add more. - I worked at two very high end restaurants and yes that’s how it worked.
Nobody should feel the need to tip
@Peter S. thats how it works at most places...
not against tipping, but giving high tips make servers compete with others and be ass holes , and they put high standards about them and actualy make them arrogant and give you face when you dont give big tip.. which ruins the enjoyment , europe doesnt use tip they have salary and thats it , i think bringinf tips to europe would literaly ruin the system.
You can tip in Europe. There's just no expectation that you do because the servers are assumed to be paid a decent wage. In my country it is up to the staff to decide how tips are distributed and it's unusual for waiters to keep the tip for themselves (not sure if it's even allowed)
@@goeiecool9999 what a concept>.
? I’ve never been a place in Europe where people don’t tip…
I always give 1 dollar tip in ultra luxury restaurants.
As you should, king
I made 50k working 25-30 hours as a server by Disney in college. I knew someone who made around 100k as a bartender at Disney. it’s definitely possible If you work in either higher end places or places with lots of volume. But I definitely worked my ass off for that money, and it’s very mentally, physically taxing industry
I was a bellman at a high end hotel and bartenders are easily making 150k+, servers were over 100k
As a former server. Tipping can’t be abolished quick enough. The percentage of servers that make bank or much less 6 fugues is minuscule compared to the amount of servers that struggle to make ends meet while working full time for a company making billions off of unpaid labor. Many restaurants get away with paying $0 hourly, just tips. Meaning u are literally providing them free labor while managing to scrape tips of clients. Not to mention that our jobs don’t begin or end when tables are gone. We must come in before the restaurant opens & prep the dining room, do silverware, cut lemons etc. all while being paid under the federal minimum wage. & when the last table leaves, ur there another 2 hours closing the place while again making less than the federal minimum wage per hour.
Exactly. We don't have super high end restaurants where I'm from that serve $5000 bottles. Your lucky if someone leaves you 5 bucks.
That is NOT true. There was a law passed that clearly states, if the income is below federal or state minimum wage, then the company will pay the difference.
People don’t this, and still think that servers would earn below minimum wage without tips. This is NOT true.
@@gcg8187 again, as a former server, I’m here to tell that is the most bold faced horse crap on earth. Yes, ur correct there are laws, buuuutttt
1. Cash tips cannot be accounted for meaning the restaurant can always make the case u made the money but aren’t claiming it. 2. The restaurant can easily blame ur service, or lack there of, for your lack of tips. Since they see tips as completely performance based. 3. Yea buddy, u go right on up & walk up to your boss & tell him hey after I counted I made 15 dollars less than what I would’ve made with MINIMUM WAGE, by law u gotta pay me. Not only are u longer getting shifts but ur also having to go thru that to make MINIMUM WAGE.
LESS THAN MCDONALDS.
@@ecjj8248 - this exists because of the abundance of stupid people. Know your rights
@@gcg8187 restaurants do illegal things all the time. I’ve had places not pay me any hourly. I’ve always had places make me pay when customers walked out (which is also illegal) they don’t care
WHEN THE SERVERS ARE SPLITTING THEIR TIPS WITH MORE THAN THE BARTENDER AND BUSSER, THEY ARE THE PROVIDERS FOR THE COWORKERS, NOT THE RESTAURANT ANYMORE.
"Tip pooling" is stealing
@@yoholmes273 it quite literally is when people are saying ‘do the bare minimum’… or the “these employers are paying you minimum wage give them minimum pay” ON A TIP SHARED POOL JOB… like gee thanks amigo/amiga we’ll just carry your dead weight in and tips FOR YOU it’s so asinine people thought ‘we are gonna make you share tips’ and people said “aight.” Like wtfffffff
@Your Dads Other Family Serving is a SALES position. Commission (tips) are correlated to direct personal sales.
No other SALES position ever are the salesmen are forced by management to "pool" their commission.
@@yoholmes273wow, you clearly have literally nothing about sales then, your managers, the lead, especially the finance department, are getting a cut. And it’s literally structured in a pyramid the same was as serving. Educate yourself before making up bs because your job sucks. Find a new job then.
I hated pooling tips. I was serving in a high end restaurant and the whole idea was that if we pool tips everybody would help each others tables more resulting in better stomper service. Only problem was they would only give VIP or Super VIP tables to me or the other top server. So we would get these high demand tables, earn twice as much as the other servers who weren’t at our level, then turn around and give them our money. Absolute BS
Lol. I'm in the same boat as you. Gonna look for a new job soon.
Last full year I served I did just over 70k working about 25 hours a week. Late nights and long weekends can be grueling though.
My question is why would anyone tip 20% of 3500 dollar drink when the service they get does not change at all with a 100 dollar drink? Doesn't make sense to tip like that
"Just begging from really rich people" fixed it
In Florida it's a lie.
how to grift the rich:
My dad works as server on the strip, makes about 90-95k a year. Only works 6 hrs a day
Only city in america where being a server can actually give u a good life. I’m pretty sure servers in nyc make similar but they’re cost of living is like triple of vegas quadruple if they live in manhattan
I work at a restaurant with an average plate cost of 20-30 dollars and we just do so much volume that a few of our servers broke 100k.
Good,they work hard for their money
@@austinbiondi8193 thats horrible. I cant imagine what the kitchen staff goes through if the servers have it this bad.
@@fastdrumming lots of snow
@@jameezybreezy9030 😂😂😂
Yeah there's a reason the rest of the world doesn't tip
Tough shit, people don’t go over there and refuse to abide by the country’s standard practices. Tipping is the standard and you’re a slimy kike if you don’t tip while in the US.
Because they're used to low pay
Most places don’t sell like that but just go somewhere before you apply and feel it out and look at the menu prices.
My little sister is 19 and she works at a nice seafood restaurant. Nothing fancy just a good restaurant and she pulls in $800+ in tips on a good night.
This is untrue for almost every single restaurant on Earth, regardless of how high end it is.
In Oklahoma tips are taxed now my brother worked at sonic and he made most of his money on tips I don't understand why we do such stupid things for simple issues no more tipping pay people a wage
Never be a server at a place that pools tips.
My cousins dad is a server they just bought a $700,000 house last year
When I was a line cook in Charlotte, NC, at a very nice restaurant, every single one of our servers was making $200k a year or more... and only claiming $40k.
Meanwhile, I got a fixed salary of $828.28 every two weeks no matter if we worked 40 hours or 100 hours that week - and we worked more than a few 100 hour weeks in the kitchen.
Server in Charlotte here, what uh, what resturant? 😂😂
@@k9man163 facts cuz the servers I know get paid like shit
Why not just get paid a liveable hourly wage
Did my taxes...made $51,872.00 last year part-time at small pizza place. 4 days a week 5 hours a night!
Things that never happened, once again in the UA-cam comments
@@deezroastedchestnuts189 what he said is totally believable.. lol
They’re completely overestimating how much servers make. Sure some folks tip really well but many don’t, even at high end restaurants. Especially when it’s pooled-not accounting for slow days, it’s closer to $100k on the high end.
I dated many bartenders and one made $2k a night in tips on the weekends. She was ballin’
I was making about 100k at Applebees. Doesn’t have to be super nice. Just be a good worker.
Cap
@@mintymite971it’s true
@@mintymite971 I was a bartender doing over 50% of the entire stores business making hourly and I averaged over 30% tips. I was bringing home about 2500 a week.
But I’d also have a bar top full, 6 bar tables and an entire section with about 6 more tables in it. It was absolute insanity at times and I had no free time but I made great money.
If those servers are earning 6 figures, we should stop tipping them unless their service is exceptional. The whole idea of tipping was either to appreciate their service or to increase their pay because the owner doesn't pay his employees well !!
What’s great about servers working on the strip is we are union workers so the benefits are insane. I’ve got 401K, paid time off, full medical, dental, mental and braces for my family, and make $15hr. Guaranteed 40hrs a week and union job protection too. Not to mention all the casino benefits and crazy tips. The jobs are hard to get though…
What are u advice for people that what to get in too it
Can you give advice on how to get those jobs?
Why do they have to share their tips? I thought only the wait staff are paid below the legal rate and make it up in tips so why share?
You dont tip on alcohol, only food. That being said, ill take 4 mozzarella sticks and 2 cases of Chateau LaFite 1904... lol
people always tip on booze
@Steven Smith Some people do yes, but "usual tipping etiquette" tips only on food. Its a stupid rule people follow. If you go out to eat and order a $25,000 bottle of wine, odds on favorite they wont tip 15%+ on that. It was even worse with people who thought and acted elite because they spent $120 on steak and lobster lol. If you have to point out how "well off" or "rich/wealthy" you are, everybody knows you arent.
EDIT: If you look online, you will see tins of people asking about the "not tipping on alcohol" when dining out. Its more pervasive than you think unfortunately!
There's a common saying where I live. NHL playoffs are big paydays for servers here in Canada.
Depending on where you serve, you can easily make 2-3 grand a weekend, if not more than that.
I still don’t think you guys need to tip, what I really think is most people should learn about money
U know some people live on tips..
i have 0 respect for servers, especially after transitioning from being a server to a cook. especially if they have food runners and bussers. servers are just there to take the order and they’re the ones who walk out with all the money.
Many places the tips are distributed between all the employees.
so why is that the servers falt complain to the owner of the restaurant
I always find it weird that people tip in some countries.. it's up to the business to pay their workers in normal parts of the world
Which is why our servers gross more than yours