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3 people all doing the same exact job, but 1 person gets all the tips.

I work for a company that owns a string of restaurants. We recently are opening a new restaurant that is not fully open yet, but are holding pop up events. People will buy a ticket and have unlimited supply of alcohol/food. We have pulled 3 people from one of our sister restaurants to work the event. I being one of them. All three people are doing the same exact job (bartending, replenishing food, bussing). I was told we get paid 12/hr and was bummed considering I make more than that on a Friday night at the restaurant I work at but oh well, we have our tipshare jar! I put at least $80 dollars into the jar thinking we were all pooling. The end of the night comes and the other person turns to me and says “I don’t think we’re doing a pool”. Turns out no, one person gets…


I work for a company that owns a string of restaurants. We recently are opening a new restaurant that is not fully open yet, but are holding pop up events. People will buy a ticket and have unlimited supply of alcohol/food. We have pulled 3 people from one of our sister restaurants to work the event. I being one of them. All three people are doing the same exact job (bartending, replenishing food, bussing). I was told we get paid 12/hr and was bummed considering I make more than that on a Friday night at the restaurant I work at but oh well, we have our tipshare jar! I put at least $80 dollars into the jar thinking we were all pooling. The end of the night comes and the other person turns to me and says “I don’t think we’re doing a pool”. Turns out no, one person gets paid server wage while the other two get paid the 12/hr. Meaning the person getting the serving wage keeps all of the tips. There was about $400+ in cash. The argument is someone gets paid server wage so that’s why they get all of the tips, but what I don’t understand is everyone is doing the same exact job, why are people getting compensated differently? Any help on how to deal with this is greatly appreciated!

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