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The Big Apple's Waiters Get Screwed
Filed under: Icky Icky Poo > Business Blitz
Sucks!
Some of New York's glitziest restaurants have been accused in recent lawsuits of stealing tips and cheating wait staff out of wages.
The establishments named in the suits include Nobu, Pastis, and Jean George.
Robert DeNiro's Nobu is getting lots of bad press these days!
An attorney representing several restaurants, tried to lay blame on 'decades-old workplace labor laws, as well as state and federal laws that do not clearly state who can share in tips and how they should be divided'.
The legal bloodhound went on to say, "It is a result of these antiquated laws and regulations that plaintiff class action lawyers have been able to swoop in and take advantage."
So legal greed is driving fair labor practices at NYC restaurants?
We say tip your NYC waiter in cash and hand it over to them directly!
[Image via WENN.]
that's something i'm not used to out here in california. back in ohio the waitresses were paid like $2/hr and they got their tips and out here, they get minimum wage and tips. i wish i could be a waitress….
hmm
who cares.
Blah… where's all the juicy shtuff, Perez?
that sux!! id be pissed good thing im in CALI.!!!
Below are a few lines from Obama's books, IN HIS WORDS!
From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.' / 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.' / 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.' / 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.' / 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'
************'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'**************
Hmmmm….a Muslim, a Bigot & a RACIST…NO THANKS! McCain / Palin 2008!
Re: harrysnatch – Bring me a beer, I got a Big Tip for ya!
Here's a tip: blow it out your ass.
Snarky Douche
Swimstud:
I didnt know Karen is a gay male!!! lol I didnt put it past her though…
and you're not a female to male pre-op?????? lol are you??
fyi im the most gullible person you'lll ever meet
Please post the story and video of blacks protesting against Obama during his rally today in Florida….
Tip your servers well…..Thats how they make thier $….Don't be a cheap ass…
You would care if it was how you made your money!
I never been to NYC
Perez, are you in a wheelchair today? This shit is old, old news.
Cripple Douche
I wanna Go
buy some shirts from me, so I can affod to go to NYC
Re: PerezIsRetarded – DIVE ON A SPIKE ALREADY ASSHOLE!
It's a scam, it's a way of the restaurant taking a kick-back for letting the waiters work there. It is supposed to be illegal and in most states it is. NYC is just behind the times in clamping down on them for doing it.
Re: Greengoatee.com – It shows.
Gotham Douche
from what i understand out here in CT… it doesnt matter if the tip is in cash or on a credit card. each persons tips still get pooled and then distributed among the waiters, hostest, bus boys and maybe another person or two. its called tipping out. and the only thing that matters when it comes to cash or credit card tips is that cash tips wont be taxed because they arent part of the pay check.
I think they probably have to contribute to a pool for bartenders and busboy/busgirls — so even if you hand them cash, it still doesn't all go to them.
oh and Swimstud:
yes, Allison was not what she alleged to be in her picture….but she kinda views it as "letting us believe" she was an Austrialian model as opposed to lieing to us…..but whatever…you say menage a trois, I say daisy- chain
Re: PerezIsRetarded –
Look, I get it, you are some little intern that the McCain campaign has paid to watch this site and put in this completely false claim…seriously I get it. But the fact is, what you are writing in here is dishonest, it doesn't say that in his book and several people on here have already pointed that out. Did it ever occure to you that if you have to lie to make your point your point may be wrong?
i'm goin to sactown now to get me some chick-fil-a!!! heeeeyyyyy!
Re: abercorey – and swimstud - i really the chick in my pic - both of them i've had on here. and i'm really 29 with a kid. i really live in norcal. been here for 6 years but i still have a midwestern twang every once in awhile. especially if i'm tired. some call it cute….i call it lazyness!
Re: abercorey – Re: abercorey – i'm confused about everyone now. i'm gullible too. i knew you were a sweetie before but your reaction to harrybalz troubles proves it. NOTHING better than a hot guy who is nicer than he is good looking…sigh.
Re: abercorey – Now get over to my house for a shut-in weekend of non stop sex. i'm very flexible so i can blow you while i'm plowing you.
Re: harrysnatch – i'm stupid…i meant to say i am really the chick in my pic. the blonde one. blonde hair, blue eyes…yep. that's me.
I have never worked as a waitress, but…I have a few friends who put themselves through school, and supported their families by doing so. Waitresses, bus boys/girls, hosts/hostesses and cooks bust their ass to provide a pleasant atmosphere and meal for their customers.
They are entitled to be compensated (by way of tips) for good/excellent service. I refuse to leave a restaurant without leaving a generous tip (in fact there was one time that I completely forgot to add one onto the credit card slip…and, I immediately went back to give her one). Hell, one time a new waitress spilled an entire glass of iced tea all over me. I STILL left her a tip, though….since she offered to pay my cleaning bill (which I told her was not necessary) and she was sincerely apologetic. Accidents happen.
Re: harrysnatch –
lol I had no doubts about you baby….lol although i stood up and defended nurse allison to Andy when he called her a bouge 2.0…and whattya know, it turns out she was lmao!!!
I waitressed in California about 10 years ago - I was 3.10 an hour plus tips, then we had to tip out to the bartenders, busboy/girls and line cooks…… yeah it sucked
Re: FiveBIFive – I fully agree with you! The last I heard…waiters/waitresses make LESS than minimum wage. If they only get $2 per hour, and work for 8 hours…that would only bring in $16 per day. How many of you could live on that? Hell, it takes about $50 to fill up my gas tank…let alone all of my other bills.
Re: Swimstud –
aww thank you baby
I guess I just sympathize with him….my like 5 and 6 yr old half brother and sister were forced to do things to each and their babysitter, 15 yr old Amanda!!! can you believe that? a 15 yr old girl making kids do stuff to each other and herself!
plus I was basically raped by a dentist, who I thought was my friend (provided we were doing meth together and he brought me to his offce after hours) but anyways he gave me enough laughing gas to know me out cold and then when I came to he was telling me how much of a good fuck I was….
Oh I love the idea of giving it to them directly!!! I'll use it. Thanks P.
Re: -ohmy- – I can see your point, in that it sucks to share your tips. But, think about this…..you, as the waitress, pretty much just took the order, relayed it to the cooks and bartenders, delivered it and returned to the table a few more times for drink refills, dessert orders and to put the bill on the table.
The cooks prepared the meals (in a hot kitchen), the bartenders prepared the drinks and the bus boys/girls cleaned the dirty tables. You didn't even have to wash the dishes.
My point being…every employee in the restaurant has a right to a portion of the tip.
Re: abercorey – omg. that's terrible about your bro and sis. and you too. we need to talk. i have stories for you.
I was a server in New York and it sucked! The owners of my restaurant pooled all of our tips and then handed out the average the next day after tipping out everyone and themselves. I would make about $300.00 in tips and walk with $150.00. Shady and horrible.
Perez must be so happy to have both Harry's, abercorey and swimstud on his blog. Without them, the number of comments would be a helluva lot lower, than they are now. Unless, it is BECAUSE of them…that the comments are so damn low. Hmmmm….
Like a bunch of 'cartoon' fleas, they are. They hop onto a 'host' and just bounce around having their own personal party and conversations.
WWW.DICEITUPONLINE.COM!!!!!!!!
Not cool. People work hard for that money!
what happened to whats his face the ghey guy that posted in every thread he has not been on lately
andy 27? where is he?
here in texas waiters make $2.13 hr plus tips. if i worked all day from 10am til 11pm with a 1 or 2 hour break i will make about $200 in tips but after the "tip share" which goes to the bussers, host, silverware roller, bartender, and food runner, I only walk with around $140 if I'm lucky enough to get good tips all day. even if the tip is cash there is still a percentage of the sales that is automatically taken out before i even see it… no bueno!!!!
Re: Larry The Fairy – If you don't feel like sharing with the other employees, who just so happen enables you to do your job (well, YOU don't do the cooking or bartending, do you?)…then, I suggest that you find yourself another job. Perhaps one where YOU do all the work, cleanup, customer service, cooking, etc.
Good luck to ya'.
Wait folks get screwed by the IRS also. They have to pay on everybodyies tips. There is a set amount. So always give 15%. at least.
Hopefully a Dem Congress and President can change this outrage for hard working folks.
Vote Obama/Biden
lame! of course they try to scam the hard-working peoples left!
Re: Anonymous – You are stereotyping the job of s waiter. First of all, hosts and bussers get paid hourly, some way over minimum wage. Second of all, the cooks get paid a decent amount OR salary. As for the bartender, they do deserve some cut of the deal but they make their own tips too and might I add, much better tips than servers. Servers dont just "take the order and drop the food down" but they're also mediators, they have to put up with bitchy people, in a lot of cases they clean up the mess, vacuum/mop and perform a TON of other sidework tasks. I know this because I work my ASS off as a server with 12 hour shifts and shitty wages to work through college. So don't you dare say that we don't work and that other people do our job for us.
I have worked in three retaurants that "tip pool" and you have to turn in all cash tips too. You get a weekly paycheck with your tips.