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I keep hearing conflicting reports from friends who are waiters/cooks.

The cooks pretty much universally agree that tips suck for them, they often just get 10% of the total (counted) tips spread between all non-waiters, if that. From what I hear they often are lucky to get an extra $20 a day. This sounds like a pretty horrid deal to me honestly, and totally unfair. This is especially true as it sounds like most waiters take the cash tips themselves and don't count them, so it's the tips on cards that get shared mainly.

Waiters though vary greatly in their description, most baretenders and waiters at places that serve alcohol are very happy with tips and make way more then most other part time jobs...often needing to work 2-3 days only and still take home way more then most people working 40-50 hours a week.

Others who work at places like Denny's or Shari's, Applebee's etc, are not as jubilant when describing their job and tips. Biggest factor seems to be how busy the place is where they work, the cost of the food, and if the establishment serves alcohol.

Seems from what I have heard that many drunk people tip way more...not always, but a tip of $20 happens sometimes for meals that cost half that.

I personally like to socialize, I'm friendly, I LOVE food and would actually have liked to have been a waiter. I'm not too old to try it sometime honestly, and I may still. I wanted to be a cook though, but in my area cooks get min wage or there about ($11 an hour) and no or a very small portion of the tips. This seems extremely unfair to me, so even though I enjoy cooking I would not do that job and work twice as many hours for less money as the wait staff.
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