$5K–$6K/month serving job near Shops at Legacy / N. Dallas (family-owned, no late nights)

Posted by theLastDanc3@reddit | Dallas | View on Reddit | 30 comments

We’re a family-owned restaurant near Shops at Legacy looking to add one or two servers to our team.

Full-time servers are consistently making $5K–$6K/month in tips

• Split shifts: 11 AM–2 PM and 5 PM–10 PM (no late nights)

• Steady volume – not a slow or seasonal spot

• Experience helps, but not required

I won’t oversell it, it’s fast-paced and you’ll work hard. But you’ll make great money and be treated well.

If you’re interested, DM me and I’ll share details (location, concept, etc.).

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mustafarian@reddit

Just tip subjectively, who cares what the standard or "norm" is

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itseightbysix@reddit

The people who are working their asses off, stuck between cheap ass owners and cheap ass customers, who conveniently blame each other, absofuckinglutely “care what the norm is.”

I’m sure you’d respond somewhat more thoughtfully if someone suggested that whatever source of revenue you use to support yourself and your family should “just” be paid to you “subjectively.”

GTFO.

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SuccessfulHospital54@reddit

Subjectively as in, respective to the level of service received. Or do you think that every bill should have an auto 20% grat attached regardless of how shitty the experience was?

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itseightbysix@reddit

If you have a shitty experience, go to management. Ask that they take the money out of their pocket as a comp. Bad service is 95% bad training.

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Damn someone is triggered. Did I say end tipping? I said "subjectively", let me expand. I'll tip within a range from 10%-20% depending on the service, cause that's what I'm tipping for. I'm also retail, I'm not gonna pay for someone's wage when the employer should.

Here's what I think should happen. Implement laws that require livable minimum wage, owners have to pay their staff living wage, none of this 3$ /hr. Bullshit, i agree ppl should be able to live. Raise the cost of your menu if you have to, so tht I know when I eat out the ppl serving are getting their piece. Anytbing on top I can tip as a gratitude.

Otherwise, why as the consumer I'm required to bear the burden? That makes no fkcn sense. And if you want to do that the. Feel free to tip 40% to take my load lmao. Dumb ideology.

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itseightbysix@reddit

What you’re arguing is opportunism masquerading as protest. Your position depends on treating your preferred compensation model as though it were the operative one. It is not. Right now, you know table service is priced and staffed on the assumption of customary tipping.

You are free to dislike that arrangement. You are not free from the fact that you knowingly used it. Once that is true, the speech about who should bear the burden starts sounding suspiciously well-timed.

I spent 13 years in fine dining in Dallas. Fortunately guests who thought like you were few and far between, and you would have been openly ridiculed had you shown yourself to be so cheap in front of guests who appreciated excellent service.

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arlenroy@reddit

Well, that would take a nation wide effort, and some federal/tax regulations. Last I checked, we have have way worse problems as a nation than tipping wait staff.

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muomo@reddit

Well, wages not being high enough for people to afford a place to live and food to eat is a nationwide (and honestly worldwide problem), and it being acceptable to pay a server $2 and some change an hour because they’ll “make up the difference in tips” is part of that problem. Giving servers at least the full minimum wage should not be a huge undertaking.

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blondebia@reddit

The minimum wage in Texas is $7.25.That doesn't pay anyone's bills. I’m sure the wait staff doesn’t agree with your non-tipping BS.

That end tipping subreddit is just a bunch of cheap asses. If everyone did raise the pay, I guarantee those same people would be bitching about the cost of their meal. It’s just an excuse not to tip while screaming that there needs to be a change, all while completely screwing over the worker.

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muomo@reddit

I never said $7.25 did, I said AT LEAST. You don’t think $7.25 is enough yet you think paying someone less than half that is? Here’s the thing: paying someone minimum wage doesn’t mean people can no longer receive tips. The only reason this tipping culture exists to the extent it does now is because it benefits the wealthy. It makes the customer directly responsible for paying servers, rather than the restaurant owner taking more money out of its profits to pay employees as it is for most other industries.

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blondebia@reddit

You don’t tip, right? Honestly, it sounds like you’re pissed that you have to tip. It’s not about wealth. You go out to eat, and if the server does a good job, you tip them appropriately. That’s how it’s been in the U.S. culture for a long time.

It’s cheap people, who probably shouldn’t be eating out, trying to change things.

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Red_RingRico@reddit

They’re saying pay them at least minimum wage plus they’d still get tips. The fact that restaurants rely entirely on customers to directly pay their entire wait staffs wages is pretty bullshit you think about it.

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blondebia@reddit

So, they should get minimum wage plus tips? What are servers expected to make per hour?

It’s always been shit base pay, but you know you will get tips. You go in knowing you’re going to have great nights and shit nights. When I was young and a server, I didn’t like it, so I went and found an office job.

There are plenty of sales jobs that pay an awful base and people have huge commissions. That's just how companies do it.

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blondebia@reddit

So, they should get minimum wage plus tips? What are servers expected to make per hour?

There are plenty of sales jobs that pay an awful base and people have huge commissions. That's just how companies do it.

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Plucked_Dove@reddit

Everyone relies on customers to pay their employees. Thats how business works. Tipping is just one of many systems of doing so. Is it antiquated and unnecessarily indirect? Does it arbitrarily reward one class of employees over another? You can certainly make the case for those things.

But the overused talking point of “why should the customers have to pay a business’s employees” is a profoundly stupid thing to say, and people who say it should not be taken seriously in discussing tipping.

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theLastDanc3@reddit (OP)

Exactly! You’re asking for a cultural shift. We are just looking for honest workers.

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burner4242@reddit

$28-$34/hour for job that doesn’t require experience and is only 8 hours a day is worth considering

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Shivdaddy1@reddit

So 11a to 10p with a lil break in the middle?

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theLastDanc3@reddit (OP)

Yes. But we are flexible on days and shifts.

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