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Re: when you pay with a debit card in a
« Reply #15 on: November 20, 2011, 09:22:23 PM »
I put the tip on the card unless I have cash for the tip.
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Re: when you pay with a debit card in a
« Reply #16 on: November 20, 2011, 10:17:24 PM »
Hey, did you hear the one about the leper who got a BJ from a prostitute??

He said when he paid her...  keep the tip!!!  :autism:

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Re: when you pay with a debit card in a
« Reply #17 on: November 20, 2011, 11:03:46 PM »
Quote from: Grease Monkey on November 20, 2011, 10:17:24 PM
Hey, did you hear the one about the leper who got a BJ from a prostitute??

He said when he paid her...  keep the tip!!!  :autism:

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Re: when you pay with a debit card in a
« Reply #18 on: November 21, 2011, 01:51:50 AM »
^ Yeah that is gross.

In Australia we don't have to tip in restaurants but they usually have a tip jar next to where you pay after the meal. If I happen to have cash and really liked the food and service, then I will leave some money there.
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Re: when you pay with a debit card in a
« Reply #19 on: November 21, 2011, 05:46:10 AM »
In the US tips are assumed to be the major part of a waiter's income, I believe.  The upside is that's income that *can* be untaxed (dunno what they have to declare but I'm sure it's by and large underreported if reported at all).  The downside is it isn't' regular, they're underpaid, and also that it's untaxed (which creates issues in and of itself including doing nothing to contribute to future social security income).
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Re: when you pay with a debit card in a
« Reply #20 on: November 21, 2011, 07:43:21 AM »
Quote from: PMS Elle on November 21, 2011, 05:46:10 AM
In the US tips are assumed to be the major part of a waiter's income, I believe.  The upside is that's income that *can* be untaxed (dunno what they have to declare but I'm sure it's by and large underreported if reported at all).  The downside is it isn't' regular, they're underpaid, and also that it's untaxed (which creates issues in and of itself including doing nothing to contribute to future social security income).
Good point, some people don't have any other retirement than SSI.
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Re: when you pay with a debit card in a
« Reply #21 on: November 21, 2011, 04:22:36 PM »
That makes no sense to me. Isn't it the employer's duty to pay their wages?
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Re: when you pay with a debit card in a
« Reply #22 on: November 21, 2011, 05:46:02 PM »
Quote from: Adam on November 21, 2011, 04:22:36 PM
That makes no sense to me. Isn't it the employer's duty to pay their wages?

The US system really is different. I don't get it either. Almost looks as if the waiter is a kind of franchise holder in this arrangement.

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Re: when you pay with a debit card in a
« Reply #23 on: November 21, 2011, 06:07:55 PM »
In Ct minimum wage for waitresses is some where between half and three quarters regular minimum,  tips are supposed to be reported on a weekly basis and that amount determines how much tax they take out of your check.  Of course they are under reported but if you are audited they look at your gross sales receipts so if you cheat really bad they can catch you in a way or at least know enough to look harder at everything else.  I do not miss the time when my wife was a waitress at all the pay was dependent on too many factors.  I would prefer a system where they were paid a reasonable wage and got tips mostly for exceptional service that said I myself have a tenancy to tip very well knowing how hard the job is and how little they can make at times.
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Re: when you pay with a debit card in a
« Reply #24 on: November 21, 2011, 08:22:19 PM »
In Alabama, they pay servers $2.13 an hour and the servers are supposed to make up the difference between that and the minimum wage in tips, but that isn't always the case.  I think that they are supposed to report every cent of tips they make as taxable income and if it adds up to less than minimum wage in a pay period, the employer is supposed to make up the difference, but I don't think they always do.
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Re: when you pay with a debit card in a
« Reply #25 on: November 21, 2011, 09:35:59 PM »
wow. what a bullshit system
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Re: when you pay with a debit card in a
« Reply #26 on: November 21, 2011, 09:54:38 PM »
 :agreed:

The $2.13 hourly wage plus tips is the federally mandated minimum wage for servers, but some states like Colorado have their own higher minimum wage.  Colorado's minimum wage for servers is $4.34 plus tips.
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Re: when you pay with a debit card in a
« Reply #27 on: November 22, 2011, 12:33:51 AM »
here on my small little island i know 90% of the waiters at the resteraunts so when i go have a burger or chinese food or something i ask them "how much do you want for a tip" most of them know im horrible with math so they give me a number and i add it to the debit or pay for it myself... one of my old support workers said allways tip double the tax but i dont like tipping a tonne of money for a plate of frys from a burger joint... i try to tip at least tax though. [12%]
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Re: when you pay with a debit card in a
« Reply #28 on: November 22, 2011, 12:53:43 AM »
 Waiting tables sucks and the pay system sucks worse.  I'm happy to tip.  :thumbup:
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Re: when you pay with a debit card in a
« Reply #29 on: November 22, 2011, 06:00:00 AM »
Quote from: Adam on November 21, 2011, 09:35:59 PM
wow. what a bullshit system
Just one more thing that the U.S. does fucktardedly wrong.   :thumbup:
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