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Servers tipping out bar backs

I (21F) am a full-time student with a part time job serving on weekends at a small bar. I pay for most of my own expenses and even save towards some tuition in the summertime. For reference, in my state the legal minimum wage for tipped employees is $5.58. My boss pays me and the other servers/bartenders $5.50 per hour. Tonight after being told how hard I worked and how much money I made him (which I see on my server report every night), I was told I should tip out the bar back because he was bussing our tables, as is part of their job. I also bus my own tables when I’m not serving. For reference, when I worked that position I was paid $11 an hour. Last I heard the guy the hired after me made $12 an hour. I fully agree that he should be paid…


I (21F) am a full-time student with a part time job serving on weekends at a small bar. I pay for most of my own expenses and even save towards some tuition in the summertime. For reference, in my state the legal minimum wage for tipped employees is $5.58. My boss pays me and the other servers/bartenders $5.50 per hour. Tonight after being told how hard I worked and how much money I made him (which I see on my server report every night), I was told I should tip out the bar back because he was bussing our tables, as is part of their job. I also bus my own tables when I’m not serving. For reference, when I worked that position I was paid $11 an hour. Last I heard the guy the hired after me made $12 an hour. I fully agree that he should be paid more, but not by other employees. I work hard, frequently make my boss over $1,000 a night, and take home maybe 10-15 percent of that out of the two nights I work. Me and the other server agreed that we shouldn’t have to pay my boss’s employees for him. We already depend on customers for most of our money and it’s not fair that we bear the burden of paying our coworkers when the man who owns the business already pays us less than minimum wage. On top of this, the bartenders already tip the bar back out. Am I wrong for this? I didn’t know that when I accepted this job that a year in I would be expected to take a pay cut to make up for my boss’s greed. What should I do?

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