For most places, it is what Racket_Man said.
At my job, if you pay in cash, and you tip in cash, the computer calculates 15 percent of the bill as a tip at the end of thier shift. If you pay in CC, the computer automatically assumes that the CC has a tip included, and does not calculate it. As such, most servers at my job prefer CC payment, cash tip. Cash tip because the checkout screen only calcs tip in (this is the screen where it asks what you were tipped all day, for taxes) based from cash payments, not CC payments. Alot of the servers at my job attempt to claim as little as possible, and therefore, love cash tips. However, they will not turn down the CC tips at all
At the end of the night, when they go to cash out, the servers always have cash. It takes their total sales for food/drink, then whatever left over is usually the amount they get. I.e. you have 200 dollars in sales. However, in your hand is 250.00. That meant you have 50 in tips. Take out about 1.5 percent for tip outs to bartenders, and you have what remains, pretty much. You only have to pay that 203.00 at the end of the night. So regardless, they have cash by the end of the night.
Darden restaurant groups, for the most part, seem alright with their practice of it. I haven't had any problems myself.
At my job, if you pay in cash, and you tip in cash, the computer calculates 15 percent of the bill as a tip at the end of thier shift. If you pay in CC, the computer automatically assumes that the CC has a tip included, and does not calculate it. As such, most servers at my job prefer CC payment, cash tip. Cash tip because the checkout screen only calcs tip in (this is the screen where it asks what you were tipped all day, for taxes) based from cash payments, not CC payments. Alot of the servers at my job attempt to claim as little as possible, and therefore, love cash tips. However, they will not turn down the CC tips at all
At the end of the night, when they go to cash out, the servers always have cash. It takes their total sales for food/drink, then whatever left over is usually the amount they get. I.e. you have 200 dollars in sales. However, in your hand is 250.00. That meant you have 50 in tips. Take out about 1.5 percent for tip outs to bartenders, and you have what remains, pretty much. You only have to pay that 203.00 at the end of the night. So regardless, they have cash by the end of the night.
Darden restaurant groups, for the most part, seem alright with their practice of it. I haven't had any problems myself.
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