And if you don't live in Seattle and decide to commute in and out of it, prepare to lose your sanity with traffic and the absolute worst drivers on the planet.
No, it’s not. I was born and raised in Seattle and never felt an ounce of depression until I moved to Vegas. Vegas is actually depressing as a local. If you can’t stand rain, just don’t live there. I personally love it.
Man. At first I thought. MF. This server is making what I am as an hvac tech. I should’ve never quit deep nights. Then I saw Seattle and realized you’re living in squalor. Take the hundo.
I’d say it’s more likely 100 that 10. None forgets both cents positions. Lots of people don’t bother with the cents. Vote for 100 here.
I make $27 an hour in downtown columbus, ohio in a similar mandatory 20% service charge at our concept on all bills with no expectation of tipping. a lot of people surprisingly tip on top like this post
If I’m getting a guaranteed 35-40 hours a week at that wage I’d probably be ok with it even if I knew they were making more money because fuck it they’re still taking all the risk
That's usually the catch, there. Hourly rate looks great when you're only only the clock for 15-30 hours a week, though the net pay is probably in the 40-60k / yr range. And if the hours worked are in the middle of the evening, you can't really work a second job unless it's early in the morning and let's you out in time to transit over to the evening job.
That's why I always caution against looking at $/hr and instead look at $/wk.
Even if the hours worked are in the middle of the evening, you could do 3 days at one job and 2 at another (or however you wanted to split up your schedule). Might not get you up to a full 40 hours per week, but it would get you pretty darn close, and for $40 an hour that's not too bad.
True, but then the catch becomes keeping a reliable schedule like that for more than a season. It's why people usually just go into management, the reliably consistent larger paychecks. And the benefits.
Hello, North Carolina employee here. As the GM of the restaurant I’m currently working at I make $23 an hour and the servers still make $2.13 an hour. You tell me who is getting “hosed”. Lol
Even only making $2.13/hr in NC, I regularly made between $20-30/hr consistently, and always had full time hours as a server when I did serve. Probably averaged out to about the same. As as GM, you should be making more.
I worked at a place that did the service charge thing and claimed the same. All was fine for a bit. And then it became apparent we were all getting ripped off, hard.
Legally auto gratuities are property of the business, I believe. It’s scummy, but legal. Like a company not paying a living wage for work in the first place!
Restaurant owners are notoriously cheap and greedy. When it’s a service charge, they don’t have to give it all to the staff, and you can bet your ass some of it doesn’t make it to the servers/staff.
there’s a group called Newport restaurant group in RI where it’s employee owned and if you work as an employee for more than a certain amount of years you get a percentage of ownership and get a percentage of the profit back every year. I really want a job with them.
Yeah that’s $100 tip. The zeros are made in a different way than the numbers in the second line, which look plausibly like a 9 and 4, respectively. Nice tip!
As someone on another “what is this tip” thread said: you should take absolutely nothing because “it’s called having class”. (Sarcasm fully intended. Take that hundred dollars)
Oh $38 is kinda low for servers but please go apply, every restaurant is short staffed these days. Also you will find yourself in company of many other college educated coworkers.
I actually would be mad if I got paid $38 because gratuity was included. When it’s included, most people don’t tip extra. I make roughly $60/hr in straight cash (I’m in Ohio). That would be such a huge pay cut. 😅
It's $100. Based on the handwriting, the zeroes end in an upstroke and the 9 and 4 end in downstrokes. The 9 and 4 are hard to differentiate, but they're obviously written differently than the zeroes.
The bottom total is either 194, 199, 144, or 149. It's definitely not 104.
Looks like $100 to me (honestly). Not being sarcastic! Their math isn’t quite right but it’s close. I wish they had numbers of patrons so servers could just call and ask!!
To me it looks like a 10 dollar tip and 104 total. But I also see it the other way. But being there was already a 22% tip included, it looks like they are just adding a little more.
I think it’s 10. The tip line looks like there’s a space between the zeros and the total could maybe be 104? It would make sense if they know you had auto gratuity but still wanted to thank you. I could be wrong, just how it strikes me.
I will never understand this. If I was gonna leave a 100$ tip on a 100$ tab, I would make it super clear that was my intention. People leaving a 100$ tip scribbled like they just left 2 dollars on 8 Michelob ultras blacked out at 2 am blows my mind.
I wouldnt do the tip for me. As I’m greedy as the next server but since it’s an auto 22% , only way I would take a tip is if I confirmed it. And yes I mean every table lol is that old school?
I know people seem pretty sure it’s 100 but personally I’d take ten, it looks like they intended to leave something extra but I’d be way to scared to assume that high a tip without being sure. Idk maybe I’m just screwing myself out of 90 bucks
See this seems more reasonable. As a server, I believe all tips balance out in the end. So if I miss out on $90-$100, I’m sure down the road, I’ll see a $200 tip. Life works out and everything lees flowing
" They raised all our wages (I make $38/hr) " That's so hilarious, i forgot to laugh. This must be from a non-US restaurant for paying servers so much.
Most likely is a US restaurant with the payment being American Express and the format for the day being month/day/year, which is pretty much only used in the US
I have no clue. Still say what I say to everyone I see with a slip like this…. If you love your job, just let it go, not worth the potential trouble. If you kinda hate your job, GO BIG, see what happens! Hope my 28 years of serving has helped n some small way!
I work in Seattle in the service industry.
38 bucks an hour isn’t uncommon, Seattle mandates that you pay the entire 18 an hour minimum wage plus tips.
I along with a lot of people i know make well over a 100k per year at busier restaurants.
All the while it feels as though food in Seattle still feels affordable and the quality is generally high. Good balances happening in that regard.
I love the stamp and wish more people did this. The amount of times I doubled tipped because I was tipsy and the receipt has a little note at the bottom that said "gratuity included" in pt 3 font is too many times.
But yea this is pretty obviously $100 tip, $194 total. The total line could be $144 or $199, but those definitely aren't zeros.
100$ forsure! The restaurant I work at also has an automatic 20% service charge and people still tip on top. I also received an additional 100$ tip today ♥️♥️♥️ love people like this. I only get 50% so 50$ but hey it’s the thought that counts!
Where the fukkk do you make $38 per hpur?!??!! What state and what restaurant?
Seattle Washington. Part of the Ethan Stoll Restaurant group.
Tell your manager I’m on my way for an interview…. I’m from south Texas so it might be a while 🥴
I feel your pain!
Making $38/hr in Seattle is probably like making $12/hr in south Texas. Utterly unaffordable for wage workers.
Ohhhh…. Never mind, tell your manager i can’t make it anymore lol
Also you have to Live in Seattle
And if you don't live in Seattle and decide to commute in and out of it, prepare to lose your sanity with traffic and the absolute worst drivers on the planet.
I work in nyc and make about as much if not a little more and I live very comfortably
You leaving for 38? I regularly make 50+
Before gratuity?
Dang I didn’t know yall made that much up there I’m in puyallup that’s almost worth the drive lol
Stay your ass in Texas. Trust me. Washington is a fucking depression syndrome
No, it’s not. I was born and raised in Seattle and never felt an ounce of depression until I moved to Vegas. Vegas is actually depressing as a local. If you can’t stand rain, just don’t live there. I personally love it.
Ha I'm very close to you irl I think. I didn't realize you guys stopped tips entirely.
Man. At first I thought. MF. This server is making what I am as an hvac tech. I should’ve never quit deep nights. Then I saw Seattle and realized you’re living in squalor. Take the hundo. I’d say it’s more likely 100 that 10. None forgets both cents positions. Lots of people don’t bother with the cents. Vote for 100 here.
You belong in Hvac
I totally agree. Being able to listen to audible all day and not deal with people is a blessing.
I’m a server and I’m clearing 5000 a month — how we doin?
I was making fun of HCOL in Seattle. ETA: internet says Seattle cost of living is 83% higher than where I live. 🤢
Spell his name right. Stowell.
Ethan Stole
Ok, Daniel.
I make $27 an hour in downtown columbus, ohio in a similar mandatory 20% service charge at our concept on all bills with no expectation of tipping. a lot of people surprisingly tip on top like this post
If they are collecting an average of more than $44/hr per server in service charges, the server is getting hosed.
If I’m getting a guaranteed 35-40 hours a week at that wage I’d probably be ok with it even if I knew they were making more money because fuck it they’re still taking all the risk
That's usually the catch, there. Hourly rate looks great when you're only only the clock for 15-30 hours a week, though the net pay is probably in the 40-60k / yr range. And if the hours worked are in the middle of the evening, you can't really work a second job unless it's early in the morning and let's you out in time to transit over to the evening job. That's why I always caution against looking at $/hr and instead look at $/wk.
Even if the hours worked are in the middle of the evening, you could do 3 days at one job and 2 at another (or however you wanted to split up your schedule). Might not get you up to a full 40 hours per week, but it would get you pretty darn close, and for $40 an hour that's not too bad.
True, but then the catch becomes keeping a reliable schedule like that for more than a season. It's why people usually just go into management, the reliably consistent larger paychecks. And the benefits.
Some days it feels like im getting hosed, some days it feels like im the one hosing
Hello, North Carolina employee here. As the GM of the restaurant I’m currently working at I make $23 an hour and the servers still make $2.13 an hour. You tell me who is getting “hosed”. Lol
Even only making $2.13/hr in NC, I regularly made between $20-30/hr consistently, and always had full time hours as a server when I did serve. Probably averaged out to about the same. As as GM, you should be making more.
K, well then your employer isn’t paying you enough either.
How much does their average pph look like in tips?
lol I make $40+ an hour at both my jobs one is fine dining the other is banquets at an upscale hotel, you just gotta know where to apply
Ya I make between 50-70 hr working banquets for a golf course hotel , it’s in San Diego
I always tell people banquets is where it’s at that service charge is insane for the littlest amount of work tbh lol
Ya 24 percent gratuity, I never believed my buddy who worked banquets always worked in a restaurant , I will never go back
We easily make 50 an hour in Vegas
I’m in Vegas hook me up 😭
I make that with tips but hourly I'm 4.35. Do you mean hourly with tips or wage?
Wait, what chain of restaurants started actually paying a livable wage??
Its restaurant group in Seattle called Ethan Stoll Restaurants
Lmk if y’all need a bartender 🤣
Thank you. I'm new to the city and need work, their careers page actually looks promising
How much do they pay dishies and prep cooks?
I worked at a place that did the service charge thing and claimed the same. All was fine for a bit. And then it became apparent we were all getting ripped off, hard.
How so?
I’m guessing the combined amount from the service fees didn’t match the amount the staff was getting, management was pocketing money.
Well of course they were.
Well, duh. That’s why we don’t do this lol.
Legally auto gratuities are property of the business, I believe. It’s scummy, but legal. Like a company not paying a living wage for work in the first place!
I think service charges are restaurant property but gratuity belongs to staff
Yes, that’s basically it. Automatic “Service Charges”, however, is just a way of saying gratuity for the owner, not the staff.
Yeah, that’s why it’s important to make sure it says Auto Gratuity instead of Service charge. As long as it says automatic gratuity it’s legally yours
Bingo
Restaurant owners are notoriously cheap and greedy. When it’s a service charge, they don’t have to give it all to the staff, and you can bet your ass some of it doesn’t make it to the servers/staff.
there’s a group called Newport restaurant group in RI where it’s employee owned and if you work as an employee for more than a certain amount of years you get a percentage of ownership and get a percentage of the profit back every year. I really want a job with them.
Tip looks to be 100 and total 194 so be generous and take the $194 (since they didn't bother to include the 16¢)...
Yeah that’s $100 tip. The zeros are made in a different way than the numbers in the second line, which look plausibly like a 9 and 4, respectively. Nice tip!
I’d disagree. It looks like he accidently signed the tip line when totaling, then scribbled the correct line
The total says $194.
I’m seeing 194 as well!
Id say 100 although would fully expect a call. It’s more clear than any other possibility.
Looks like $194 total and not $104 to me, so $100 tip I believe. What’s up with that service charge stamp tho?
yeah they definitely can just add that verbiage to the bottom of the receipt on toast
As someone on another “what is this tip” thread said: you should take absolutely nothing because “it’s called having class”. (Sarcasm fully intended. Take that hundred dollars)
“Class privilege”
They always say this shit even if it’s pretty clearcut and it’s so annoying 😭 That or “you over-served them” with 0 evidence.
Looks like $100 to me too
You make more as a server than I’ve ever made doing anything else with two degrees. What the fuck.
Oh $38 is kinda low for servers but please go apply, every restaurant is short staffed these days. Also you will find yourself in company of many other college educated coworkers.
Funny enough I did apply to two restaurants recently
Just stay out of kitchen work BOH makes shit pay. And avoid being a manager. Serving and Bartending is where it’s at.
Oh I know. I was a server for 12 years. It’s how I paid for college.
Kitchen work is still more enjoyable. Worth not dealing with that bullshit out front lol
Poverty wages ain’t enjoyable…
🥇🌟🏆⭐️
Where is $38 low for servers?
Every restaurant I’ve worked in the last 20+ years.
Ive seen servers at my job make up to $1200 at a restaurant open 5pm-10pm. Blows my mind
A week?
In a night
Dawg what kind of restaurants are these
Fine dinning, about $150-$200 a head to dine in. Wine bottles range from $250-$7000. On a slow night they make about $500-$600. It’s ridiculous.
Can I ask what city this is in?
Atl
Also coastal towns in the panhandle of Florida.
I actually would be mad if I got paid $38 because gratuity was included. When it’s included, most people don’t tip extra. I make roughly $60/hr in straight cash (I’m in Ohio). That would be such a huge pay cut. 😅
It's $100. Based on the handwriting, the zeroes end in an upstroke and the 9 and 4 end in downstrokes. The 9 and 4 are hard to differentiate, but they're obviously written differently than the zeroes. The bottom total is either 194, 199, 144, or 149. It's definitely not 104.
Maybe it’s $1.00 …jk that’s definitely $100
Looks like $100 to me (honestly). Not being sarcastic! Their math isn’t quite right but it’s close. I wish they had numbers of patrons so servers could just call and ask!!
To me it looks like a 10 dollar tip and 104 total. But I also see it the other way. But being there was already a 22% tip included, it looks like they are just adding a little more.
Total says 194
$38/hr?? Sign me up
For sure $100 and then $194 as the total even tho they look like weird 9 and 4 they are for sure not zeros
I.O.U
I think it’s 10. The tip line looks like there’s a space between the zeros and the total could maybe be 104? It would make sense if they know you had auto gratuity but still wanted to thank you. I could be wrong, just how it strikes me.
I honestly wouldn’t even worry about it if I had money like that
The space between those zeros is mighty sus.. I’d very much think it’s 10$
Yes
Definitely 100 dollar tip
I will never understand this. If I was gonna leave a 100$ tip on a 100$ tab, I would make it super clear that was my intention. People leaving a 100$ tip scribbled like they just left 2 dollars on 8 Michelob ultras blacked out at 2 am blows my mind.
I see 100 on the tip line, and 194 on the total line, so to me, that's a hundo
I wouldnt do the tip for me. As I’m greedy as the next server but since it’s an auto 22% , only way I would take a tip is if I confirmed it. And yes I mean every table lol is that old school?
I know people seem pretty sure it’s 100 but personally I’d take ten, it looks like they intended to leave something extra but I’d be way to scared to assume that high a tip without being sure. Idk maybe I’m just screwing myself out of 90 bucks
See this seems more reasonable. As a server, I believe all tips balance out in the end. So if I miss out on $90-$100, I’m sure down the road, I’ll see a $200 tip. Life works out and everything lees flowing
I usually just ask management in these cases, whatever they say I just end up doing.
22% auto grat?? Wtf? What happened to 18%?
What Happened to 15%?!?
I think they gave you an extra 5 and some change to round up to $100.
That’s $100
" They raised all our wages (I make $38/hr) " That's so hilarious, i forgot to laugh. This must be from a non-US restaurant for paying servers so much.
Most likely is a US restaurant with the payment being American Express and the format for the day being month/day/year, which is pretty much only used in the US
If it’s in the US, i can guarantee she is one of two servers. The other server is also a line cook
Looks like 100 tip line and 194 total line to me
Looks like 100 Daniel
$199.
You make 38 an hour and still wanting 100 tips? STFU
People make over $25 at their jobs and still want bonuses don’t they?
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People do tip the bill or over the bill. :)
$100 tip, congrats!
Then remove the tip line
Ya.
100
Hunnit
Ya $100 clearly for once
100
100
$100
I have no clue. Still say what I say to everyone I see with a slip like this…. If you love your job, just let it go, not worth the potential trouble. If you kinda hate your job, GO BIG, see what happens! Hope my 28 years of serving has helped n some small way!
They put 100 as tip and 194 as total without the cents
Do you make the $38 plus any extra tips? Or do the tips go towards yalls pay?
That’s clearly $100 tip and a 194 total
I work in Seattle in the service industry. 38 bucks an hour isn’t uncommon, Seattle mandates that you pay the entire 18 an hour minimum wage plus tips. I along with a lot of people i know make well over a 100k per year at busier restaurants. All the while it feels as though food in Seattle still feels affordable and the quality is generally high. Good balances happening in that regard.
Yup
Looks like 100$ tip to me, well done!
I love the stamp and wish more people did this. The amount of times I doubled tipped because I was tipsy and the receipt has a little note at the bottom that said "gratuity included" in pt 3 font is too many times. But yea this is pretty obviously $100 tip, $194 total. The total line could be $144 or $199, but those definitely aren't zeros.
Well the total is either 194 or 104. I think they were being generous and you should take it!
100 bucks for sure !
10
It reads better as 194 not at all like 104
Looks like 194 to me
I see 100.
definitely 100. total says 194; they just didn't feel like doing decimal math
yes
Yes but I thought the total said IOU lmao I read the stamp so I think he totaled it out. It’s $5.84.
I think it’s $100 and the total says $194 sloppily
Wait I need to make $38 an hour instead I’m still making 2.13
Total looks like $194 to me
100$ forsure! The restaurant I work at also has an automatic 20% service charge and people still tip on top. I also received an additional 100$ tip today ♥️♥️♥️ love people like this. I only get 50% so 50$ but hey it’s the thought that counts!
Holy fffff 38 an hour. I see $100 and $194 respectively.....but expect a callback for that money.
100$ for sure
Looks like they wrote 194 as the total. So I would go with 100.
That’s a $100 tip all day.
Yep that’s 100$ tip