| Topic: | Re:Bill's Restaurant Keeping Staff Tips | |
| Posted by: | Francis Rowe | |
| Date/Time: | 18/06/15 12:16:00 |
| Chris, let's just assume conservatively that a waiter at Bill's works a four hour shift and is directly responsible for 20 covers at an average of £20. That would mean that the service charge attributable to that individual would be £50. If you add minimum wage that would mean that the waiter was getting an hourly rate of around £19. It is unlikely that any restaurant would be able to operate profitably paying those kind of wages. Since the advent of the minimum wage and closer scrutiny from the taxman over the way restaurants pay their staff the concept of the service charge being a pool of money to be shared among staff has long gone. The margins in the restaurant business are very thin so the idea that you could dole out an extra 12.5% of revenue to staff on top of wages is fanciful. However, it would be a good idea for restaurants to link the payment of staff to the turnover of the establishment. The last time I was in Bills the demeanour of the waitress suggested she was thoroughly indifferent to whether we enjoyed our meal or not. |