Current Events > Hooters server reveals how much she makes in tips on TikTok

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https://nypost.com/2021/10/23/hooters-server-reveals-how-much-she-makes-in-tips-in-tiktok/

Kirsten Songer, who works at a restaurant in South Carolina, posted a video on TikTok divulging how much she made in tips for each shift in one week, which she said she gets on top of her $2.13 per hour wage. This is how much I make in a week at Hooters, Songer who is now in medical school said in the clip. This is a really good week to show, cause I had some really great shifts and then some not-so-hot shifts. In the video, she said she bartended for seven hours on Sunday and made $408 in tips. On Monday, she said she worked a double shift and made $300 for the first shift from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., but that night, she made only $50 from 5:30 p.m. to midnight. On Tuesday, she made $190 for a six-hour shift, while on Wednesday, she made only $50 in tips for a four-hour shift. Then on Saturday, she said she made $260, with $60 coming from one person who tipped her for talking to him today, she said. She also mentioned that she did a photoshoot for the Hooters calendar on Friday morning, where she made the companys promotional pay of $10 an hour, totaling about $50.

In total, Songer made $1,258 in tips, plus the $50 for the photoshoot. Many of the commenters were shocked by Songers base pay of $2.13 an hour. One person wrote: YOURE WHAT AN HOUR???!? Might just be me living in California but idk. Someone else said: Oh my goodness!! It was 2.13 an hour when I last waitressed..which was 21 years ago. Though the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, the governments minimum cash wage for tipped workers is $2.13 an hour, as long as they get at least $7.25 an hour total. Though some states have higher minimum cash wages for tipped workers, South Carolina has the federal standard of $2.13 an hour for tipped employees. Aside from discussing her tips, Songer has also weighed in on Hooters new shorts on TikTok. In one clip, which has been viewed more than 9.5 million times, Songer wrote: Alright so we all know something made Kirsten wanna quit today. And that somebody is named the new shorts, she added.

https://www.tiktok.com/@theflathootersgirl/video/6973040293394369797



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More like Kristen Donger hehehe

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that music tho

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Songer who is now in medical school

Sounds like she makes enough
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too bad someone couldnt give me 60 dollars just for talking to them

Learn to code?

Fuck that!

Learn to serve!

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And this is why tipping culture will never go away.

Servers will always be chasing that $500 a night high and not want their wages per hour to rise, even though only a small fraction become that successful.

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ThisWaterIsDry posted...

Learn to code?

Fuck that!

Learn to serve!

And have boobs

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LightningAce11 posted...

And this is why tipping culture will never go away.

Servers will always be chasing that $500 a night high and not want their wages per hour to rise, even though only a small fraction become that successful.

Even $200 a night is very good for a server.

That translates to over $40k after taxes, which is decent money.

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Damn_Underscore posted...

Evrn $200 a night is very good for a server.

That translates to over $40k after taxes, which is decent money.

Not when the rent is 1500/month

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I mean it's pretty much sex work

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pinky0926 posted...

I mean it's pretty much sex work

No it isnt.

you mean to say being an average woman or above is easy mode?

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Makeveli_lives posted...

Not when the rent is 1500/month

Is it that much is South Carolina?

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bobaban posted...

No it isnt.

They're being paid large tips for being skimpily dressed and sexually suggestive

I'd say that's sex work. I know escorts who have men pay them to be their cleaners, lol

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Why is anyone surprised by the base wage? Nobody would tip nearly as much if they were making normal hourly wage. Our stupid tipping culture is like that because the foist the responsibility of paying their wages to the customer.

good for her

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This isnt newsworthy, but I guess NYPost wanted a propaganda piece to support the tipping minimum wage

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I'm guessing the curvier ones in more populated locations make even more.

Not bad tbh.
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$60,000+ a year in South Carolina seems pretty damn solid for a serving job actually.

ThisWaterIsDry posted...

Learn to code?

Fuck that!

Learn to serve!

Nope. You got to reincarnate into a woman.

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Scorsese2002 posted...

Songer who is now in medical school

Sounds like she makes enough

Because loans are nonexistant m i rite

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This reads like one of those "This 7 year old held a bake sale to pay for his mom's cancer treatment" articles. Supposed to be inspirational, but actually just lets the mask slip on the modern American nightmare.

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Nemu posted...

Why is anyone surprised by the base wage? Nobody would tip nearly as much if they were making normal hourly wage.

Oregon has the same min wage for tipped and non-tipped employees and still has tipping culture.

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Now you know why servers pay for dine and dashers. Pay up or get fired from that gig.

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pinky0926 posted...

They're being paid large tips for being skimpily dressed and sexually suggestive

I'd say that's sex work. I know escorts who have men pay them to be their cleaners, lol

Still its not sex work. Ive seen plenty of non-escorts dress like hookers IRL.

bobaban posted...

Still its not sex work. Ive seen plenty of non-escorts dress like hookers IRL.

are they getting paid to dress like that though?

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oh wow

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megamanfreakXD posted...

Because loans are nonexistant m i rite

Last I heard yeah
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bobaban posted...

Still its not sex work. Ive seen plenty of non-escorts dress like hookers IRL.

It's not incidental, though. Like they don't just happen to be sexy or skimpily dressed. The entire purpose of the bar is for this. They are dressing up specifically in that way to be sexy and collect money in exchange for being sexy. So how is that not sex work? Like what is stripping.

I'm not trying to be pedantic here. I just think if we class onlyfans, topless waitressing and stripping as sex work, this is about the same.

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