Michigan server who got $10,000 tip says she was fired in ensuing dispute

saintmdterps said

In the summer of my freshman year of college I worked both in the kitchen then as a server. In the kitchen we were paid a higher hourly wage, but of course got tips as a server. This was 1980, but I figured my average hourly wage as a server to be $9-10 per hour vs $3.50 per hour in the kitchen. Guess where I was happier?

The entire tip culture is screwed. It is indeed corporate America expecting the population as a whole to subsidize its workers via tips.

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It certainly depends on the restaurant and even the shift the wait staff is working. For instance wait staff always make better money working a night shift on Friday or Saturday than say the lunch shift on a Tuesday or Wednesday. I worked at O'Henry's which was more or less a locally owned Chili's and I was lucky to make over minimum wage when working a mid-week lunch shift. That even applied sometimes on a Saturday night if you got stiffed on a few big tables.