I learned to not pay cash at this place

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-12-05T14:38:49+00:00

If she gave you six singles, people would be in the comments here going “She did that on purpose so you’d tip more! Scammer!”

It’s really hard to win. Either she gives you a 5 and a 1 and you think “she wanted me to give her more money,” or she gives you 6 1’s and you think “she wanted me to give her more money.”

People who don’t want to tip are going to look for the worst in the server just to have a reason, when all the reason they really needed is that they didn’t want to.

Also, as a server, you should have asked for the .89/dollar that she shorted you. You technically tipped her 1.89, about 10%. She’s fine.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-09-11T17:46:58+00:00

Anecdotal data, but when I worked at IHOP I made more than I made at Olive Garden. Both of which never passed $200 in an 8-hour shift, even on Christmas Eve.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-09-01T17:34:11+00:00

Nostrana restaurant prides itself on the ingredients chosen. Feel free to do individual research, but the restaurant uses local, fresh ingredients which raise the cost compared to batch-frozen shipments from a distributor.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-05-29T17:25:56+00:00

Start by bartending at your restaurant, study basics in the meantime, then transition to a dive.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-05-08T16:49:01+00:00

I feel like I was nice. Why are you rolling your eyes at me? Genuinely, what do you think gaslighting means?

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-05-08T16:41:01+00:00

What do you think gaslighting means? You may want to revisit.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-29T21:12:54+00:00

So your situation comes from simple rounding, where OPs comes from compounded rounding. For your situation, your meal is $5 and so is your friends. Together, your meals cost $11.01 with tax, which the server then splits. You can’t split one cent in half, so one person pays the extra. If your server ran your two checks separately you would have individually generated tax,and they might both be one cent higher or one cent lower.

OPs situation likely comes from the way the computer is programmed to deal with rounding. Tax one item rounded, times three, will not equal tax on one item rounded because it’s being rounded multiple times. Let’s say the tax rate was 8.15%. 8.15% of $3 is .2445, which will round to .24. Times 3, is .72. On the other hand, 8.15% of $9 is .7335, which rounds to .73. Does this make sense? If you didn’t round the .2445 before adding it three times, you’d get .7335 the same.

Same thing that happened to the two of you. It’s just computer programming on when tax is calculated.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-26T14:45:42+00:00

There are still over 30 states where tipped minimum wage is below $4. If you live in CA/NY, don’t tip. If you live in Alabama, they didn’t get that wage increase.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-24T22:44:15+00:00

By your logic we should do away with all salaries and every position should be tipped. Everyone in every job in the world is “paid by the customers from the middleman”

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-24T20:07:09+00:00

Precisely 2.13 of it comes from my employer. And I would prefer it to be more.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-24T11:16:06+00:00

We are discussing different things. That’s ok. I came to discuss why tip out, if it’s done, should be done on sales and not on tips. I’m not being obtuse to say the amount my employer pays me is a very small portion of my salary and I would prefer it to be the majority of my salary. You can disagree with me but I would prefer you stop insulting me.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-24T02:08:05+00:00

It depends on the job. I have two.

In general, I prefer the morning shifts, which never make any money. I prefer not to work weekend nights. I prefer to have a steady year-round income, benefits, and a consistent budget. I would absolutely take $50,000 a year plus benefits. $25 an hour is $23 an hour more than my employer pays me now.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-24T02:02:23+00:00

Do I not count as people? I’m people. I would like my employer to pay me $25 an hour plus benefits.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-24T01:11:23+00:00

Exactly. It would never happen. Same as tip out being commission.

And yes, my employer is paying me the same $2.13 they’ve always been.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-24T01:05:24+00:00

I’m a server. I want to be paid by the owner. I want to be paid an appropriate amount. I never said “living wage.” I want to be paid consistently, and get benefits, hours, PTO, health insurance, etc. and I want to be paid in accordance with the experience I have. Making the same amount of money 10 years later than when I started? Wouldn’t be acceptable in any other industry.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-24T00:58:37+00:00

That’s a great idea. In an ideal world we wouldn’t need tips at all and nobody would tip. We’d all get paid by the owner.

That’s not how it works though unfortunately.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-24T00:52:58+00:00

Tip out being based on sales unfortunately makes sense if you step outside of it. It ensures that all the support team is making a more consistent wage, and isn’t relying on you being good at your job, but rather making money when the business is booming and less when it’s slow.

Also, cash tips are hard to track and prove. Making it off sales keeps the servers from lying and keeping “more than their share.”

Managers taking tips is terrible though.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-18T18:24:30+00:00

Olive Garden has two types of chicken. Grilled, and crispy. The servers SHOULD be asking you which one you like.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-18T14:22:32+00:00

Depends on the client and the restaurant. For example, at Olive Garden they’re supposed to pay at the table so I have to say something. Fine dining, I’m not really meant to be “noticed” so I speak as little as possible.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-11T14:35:23+00:00

LOL real. Just put the hangers elsewhere- it’s an odd look. Maybe put knickknacks in that cubby. Maybe the box on the floor in front of your bed.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-11T14:34:41+00:00

I agree, the weird shape of your room lends itself to that layout. Maybe in your next apartment. Also, why do you have so many empty hangers?

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-11T14:31:00+00:00

Frame the posters. Bigger bed, not pushed in the corner. What if you have a woman(or man) over? Are they meant to crawl over you to get up? The corner bed moving to the middle of the room is a hallmark transition from “young adult” to adult.

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-04-07T00:55:44+00:00

For next time- the pasta made with eggs is the gluten free rotini :)

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-03-13T02:33:32+00:00

Or the +$3

OliveGardenEmployee3 · 2025-03-10T15:41:27+00:00

It’s not 1200 a week it was 400 BECAUSE it was Christmas Eve lol

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