Anyone work as a server...question re tips
I am sure someone knows as this board is so helpful.
Our son is working as a server at a retirement home being that he is only 15 he is excluded from working as a server in a licensed restaurant.
He gets $9.50 when he works as a server and $12 when he does dishwasher/kitchen help. As well any time over his scheduled shift(servers are usually scheduled for six hours split shift) is time and half. Plus if there is a special event he gets time and half for that and as well time and half for stat. holidays.
I think for a 15 yr old it is decent pay and they are very good about scheduling weekend only work.
But I would like to know what the going rate is for servers in restaurants. The hard part is figuring out the tip as the wage is lower but there are tips. One restaurant(Moxies) said $9.05(minimum wage) for server and $10.50 for tip.
Has anyone worked at some place like Moxies, Earls, BP, Sawmill, Dennys, etc...what kind of tip can be expected and how is split amongst the servers and kitchen help.