Tipping - How do you feel about it?

[srixon 1]

My daughter worked as a waitress in a restaurant in our town for 3 years before she went off to uni. The couple that own it do not take a share of the tips, and the tips for any particular evening are only shared between the staff that work that evening. Even the young lad doing the washing up all night gets a share.

 

[Rooter]

Even the young lad doing the washing up all night gets a share.

Which is the job i did from 16 years old, i used to work friday and saturday night and make more in tips than wages! Used to be 40-50 quid a night in tips!

 

[smalls]

So all tips are equally shared amongst all staff and as a manager you also get a share, is that right?

Do you also think this is a fair practice, you may have a member of staff that just clocks in and out and does the minimum necessary without pulling out the stops and as such hardly brings any tips to the pot, yet another member of staff has been so helpful and attentive that they receive a decent amount of tips, do you think its fair that those tips get diluted amongst those that don't pull their weight? Surely keeping your own tips gives an added incentive to be more attentive?

Being a very busy establishment everyone mucks in and doesn't have there own tables to look after. So splitting the tips is the fairest way. I'm only a shift manager so I'm also working the floor/bar a few nights a week. And we won't hire staff that don't pull there weight

 

[HomerJSimpson]

My daughter worked as a waitress in a restaurant in our town for 3 years before she went off to uni. The couple that own it do not take a share of the tips, and the tips for any particular evening are only shared between the staff that work that evening. Even the young lad doing the washing up all night gets a share.

Sounds an ideal way of doing it but sadly how many establishments follow suit?