Yeah, I'd be thinking the high-end servers should be making half that. Wish that we'd just pay them and tip only on above-average service, but that won't change. This system saves the employee and employer payroll taxes on the unreported tips.
I used to be a driver at a place that charged delivery fees. None of it goes to the driver. They charge more than they pay in gas. They gave a per fee rate of $0.87 per delivery with an area 5 square miles paying their drivers enough in gas to drive half that distance. Aside from getting paid compensated poorly, they're in the fifth most dangerous profession in the United States behind Commercial Fishers, Loggers, High-Rise Construction Workers, and commercial pilots. More delivery guys duy every year at work than police officers. Imagine a profession where you have dangerous weather conditions increasing the volume of work you have. And that's not to mention the assholes who abuse the system to get free food that minimize a driver's revenue by having them come back twice or more.
Okay, that is what I was thinking for the valet. I think I've only had a bellhop twice, and I think I tipped one $10+ (it was 3am and I have two young children we had to deal with) and the other $5.
When you don't have an 'in' some place, you'll take any job. I spent countless hours applying at all variety of places, and finally got a call back from this one place. I did that to work my way through college. Obviously I'm not still doing that. You can go back under your bridge now.
Who are you to say how much someone ELSE should make? Would you like that waiter to tell you what he/she thinks YOU deserve? People should earn what they can (as long as they don't break the rules) and if someone can get a waiting gig that pays well, good for them. You don't have to go to that restaurant (if what the waiters get paid is bothering you so much) and as long as your party if fewer than 6 you don't even HAVE to tip. Imaging how much Fogo would cost per person if they paid their waiters $10 an hour vs. $2? Honestly I don't even see why this kind of mentality exists. Why do you even care what someone else earns (unless they are paid with your tax dollars)?
Repped. Seriously, those of you complaining about how much servers make, do you think you'd be able to do a great job if someone asked you to start working a busy friday night service at a restaurant doing 300-400 covers? Do you want to put up with peoples BS? It's a tough job, it takes a certain type of personality to be good at, and there aren't exactly people lining up to do it. Trash collectors make an average of $45k a year, do you think they're overpaid?
Accounting is just math and reading, something we all learned by the time we graduated high school. I don't see why they should make any more than $25k a year, especially with programs like Turbo Tax.
I get that it's not a tip. The thing is.. the places I've ordered from, it's not just $1-2, it's more like $3-7, where I live anyway, depending on the place (and not distance from them to me). Wow never knew that about the death rate. It's not that I don't respect delivery drivers, it's the restaurants who try to overcharge on the delivery charge. It doesn't apply to all places, I think pizza places are fine they do a good job of it, but some other types of places that deliver just try to hustle you out for a delivery charge and then you add the tip and it's almost like you could've had another meal if you had just picked up your order. I know delivery is a convenience, I just hate the places that abuse their delivery charges.
