Try reading this thread. http://www.dr1.com/forums/travel-questions/72787-what-circumstances-tips-insulting.html
Even if you hand a waiter a tip directly, you can't be guaranteed that he isn't required to pool it with his fellow employees. Try to be discrete if you want to take care of a someone who gave excellent service.
Except, in the DR they require the tips to be divided amongst the complete staff including waiters, busboys, hosts, captains, dishwashers, cooks and bartenders. The restaurant owners rely on tips to supplement their payrolls.I think dividing the tips up equal at the end of each shift is the best way. My partner worked in restaurants and it works out better, she came home with a pretty average RD800$ after each shift, I think it works out fairer, as long as everyone works as hard as each other.
Except, in the DR they require the tips to be divided amongst the complete staff including waiters, busboys, hosts, captains, dishwashers, cooks and bartenders. The restaurant owners rely on tips to supplement their payrolls.
I think that is a good thing! Front of house staff get the same as behind the scenes!
And you wonder why service, in general, is lousy.
No, I know why service in general is lousy, and that is because people employ lazy people. If you eat at a good restaurant then you should not have lousy service. The lousy service is down to the employer.
I've seen at many restaurants, at the end of the night (when only a few of us derelects are still at the bar) a couple of employees are counting the cash tip pool and dividing it according to some predetermined formula amongst their fellow employees. How and when they ever see any tips left on credit cards, I don't know.Yes, I know that tips are generally shared. My question is where does what is shared come from? I would love to have a reply from an owner of a restaurant.
You have your food delivered from cheap pizza places and the grocery stores as your own posts have stated. You and a "good restaurant" (or anything else that requires some money) don't seem to go together.
Does any know if owners are required to share the 10% among the workers or do workers only get what is left in cash above the required 10%? Do workers receive anything from a tip left with a credit card?
ringo, i am on your side. its time for this ( and i use the term loosely) person to be shown the door
You have your food delivered from cheap pizza places and the grocery stores as your own posts have stated. .
It's called a COLMADO, just figured I teach you that after all you have only been here 8 years or so no?
Actually a grocery store is called a super-mercado and a Colmado is the little thing on the corner that sells a little bit of food or beer.