What’s your tip out percentage for bussers, food runners, and bartenders?
First of all I wanted to say I’m absolutely not complaining about tipping out bussers and foodrunners and bartenders. I know they do so much and help waiters out a lot. For our restaurant it’s required we tip out the bussers 10% each, foodrunners 15% each and bartender 7%. So for example yesterday for mothers day we had 3 bussers, 2 foodrunners and 1 bartender because it was busy. All of them were helping out every server so I tipped all of them out. I ended up making around $500 for the night. By the time they were all tipped out I left with $215. I work at a relatively fine dining place, not overly fancy but pretty nice. It kind of sucks because I make $4 an hour while the bussers foodrunners and bartenders make over $10 an hour. There were 5 servers so they were all tipped out that amount. I just want to know if this is normal. Again I'm not complaining because particularly the foodrunners and bussers we had yesterday did so much but at that point I’m tipping out more than I’m bringing home for such a busy day, and I took home way less than I make on a normal weekend and did so much more work and had so many more tables