Baretenders required to tip out general manager a percent of out total sales! How is this legal?
Establishment: Drama Room
Location: wsd
Does anyone else deal or know about this? Our general manager requires that we tip out a percent to THEM of our total sales?!?! They just come and check you out at the end of the night and say oh and this was your sales and you owe me this…WHAT! Then i tip my barback out 20% after I gave money to my general manager? How is this okay and someone please tell me this is not legal. and no they are not bartending….they are just there.
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it is completely legal. In fact if your employer wants to keep ALL of your tips it’s legal! As long as all employees make minimum wage no laws are being violated. I worked at Moto and they keep all of your tips And the GM, and AGM recieved a portion of the tips. Several of us contacted IDOL and no laws were broken.
It is illegal, however the restaurant police will not come to arrest them any time soon. Mortons employees just sued and won a case against the company for the same reason. Now, all of the waiters and bartenders are receiving checks. Its a dirty business. However, with the way things are going in the job market, you have to decide whether your income is worth the shake down. What will it serve you to go to another job, make less money, but not have to pay the grift? Its a bad situation to be in.
Tip pooling in Il violates the FLSA act. Waiters are not obligated under FEDERAL law to share their tips with salaried employees or any employee in a PERCEIVED managerial position. Try FLSALAW.COM for more info. Right now there is a pending lawsuit against SMITH AND WOLLENSKY for the exact thing.The same restaurant lost both lawsuits in houston and boston.IDOL will not do anything so its better to conduct a lawyer.For the NYC girl: you have three years to go get YOUR money back.
IT IS COMPLETELY ILLEGAL..In NY the Smith and Wollensky workers went to a restaurant workers center to get their money back. The person who wrote that the restaurant police don’t come and arrest is completely right you have to take manners into your own hands. The workers center that helped the people in New York have an office in Chicago as well - look at their website I think it’s rocunited.org
i have also worked at the same restaurant, Moto. they pay the servers $100. the owner and his bimbo wife get all of the tips. if you go there and see the newly remodeled restaurant you will see. They pay there cooks $90 a day and make it mandatory for them not to clock in and to come in on their days off for free! The gm and agm get a full cut of tips equal to what everyone else makes. But instead the gm is making over 70,000 a year sitting on his ass playing with the internet instead of working.
I just started working for a restuarant chain and I am required as a bartender or a server to tip out my manager 3% of my sales…what the heck? They are hourly paid, not salaried, but still, this just doesn’t seem fair or right………help?
You know, go to a lawyer, go here, go there. But bottom line is you really need to steal back if you are getting stolen from. And also try to line up another job. What I do is give free drinks to my pals, or, have them pay drinks with a $20 and give $10, $5 and $5 singles back if I see any eyes on me. Take a bottle home in my backpack, and on my final night before I start my new job, grab some greenys from the register. And deny deny deny on your way out the door. Oh, and accidentally knock a few glasses to the floor and apoligize profusley on your way out.
It’s the same story at Le Colonial. The maitre d’ gets a cut of the tip share. and what’s this new trend in Chicago restaurants where you have to tip out the hostess. This is the case at Vermillion and a growing number of restaurants in town. Also at Vermillion when you work private parties the two servers on staff who have worked there the longest go into the office with the manager and decide who gets paid what according to “what each individual contributed”.
Not to mention that the owner of Vermillion specifically instructs the staff to identify the guests with money and “milk them”. Every server there has an $80 per cover expectation and if it is consistently not reflected in your sales you will be banned to lunch shifts as your punishment. This is why their staff turn over is so high
Are you freaking nuts! you do not have to tip the GM! It is against the law for salaried employees to be tipped out! Unless they themselves waited on the table! Holy shit! Report them now and you do not have to tip 20% to anyone else! the standard is 1% of sales to busser, and 2% of sales to the bartender, if you want to do more that is your descretion…..what place is this!! I will call and tell the GM whats up