The restaurant was in a wealthy area and people often tipped $15-50 sometimes $60-100 for big groups. I got paid $11/hr. At first $10/hr and when I asked for a raise they gave me $11/hr but fired other worker and made me work twice as hard to make up for the $1 raise. Most of the time, I was the only server. On weekends, we had part time people come and work.
The registers even had a tip jar that said “tip for servers” and people who did take out orders would tip that way.
My service was amazing that sometimes people would say “I tipped extra.” The owners had cameras and was monitoring from home if they weren’t at the restaurant.
Any cash tips, we were strictly told to put in the “tip jar for servers” that we never got.
Thinking back, that was one of the most fucked up things ever and I just couldn’t get behind that type of governing principles because customers were def tipping the servers and would hand us money and we had to put in the jar for the owners to take.