Anyone who has ever worked as a waiter or waitress at a restaurant will know how vital tips are since restaurants pay only a few dollars an hour to their servers, who must find a way to live off such small earnings.
On average, servers make under $22,000 a year, as many only make between $2-5 per hour. To make up for such low wages, servers rely on their customers to tip between 15 to 20 percent of their bill. However, when 22-year-old Taylar Cordova, a young mother and waitress at a Colorado P.F. Chang’s, finally finished serving a table of customers who had consumed $187 worth of food and drinks, she was destroyed to see she was left with a $0 tip.
To remind people how important it is to always tip servers, Taylar decided to post a picture of the bill to her Facebook wall along with her powerful reaction.
“I STRUGGLE to put clothes on my daughter’s back and food in our bellies because of THIS. You, are the lowest of the low. Whenever you feel like it’s probably fine to not tip your server, that’s one more bill stacking up because they’re short on money. This is food for the week that our families will go without because you didn’t think it was necessary,” Taylar wrote.
“Servers are paid a base pay of $2-5/hr depending on the employer, so next time you don’t want to tip, regardless of the situation prior to receiving your bill, think about how much you would have to work that week off $2-5/hr to feed your family, not just you. Could you pay your bills based on that pay alone? Could you feed your family AND yourself?”
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[Featured image credit: Facebook/Taylar Cordova]
Waitress Mom Is Destroyed When Cheap Customers Leave $0 Tip is an article from: LifeDaily