Being a server and bartender for many years, I am a generous tipper of 20-25%. By law, they get paid state min. as a tipped employee, and their tips make the rest up. The front of the house server has a lot of sidework you don't see like rolling silverware, sweeping, cleaning the areas designated, and other backroom side work, cleaning and draining ice machines, coffee machines, ice cream machines, whatever they have going on, sometimes even bathrooms! Sometimes the side work take s a few hours and not get tipped for it!
Servers also have to tip out the hostess, the busboy, food runner and the bartenders (all) each at 3% of their sales tallied at the end of the night, NOT TIPS MADE! They also have to declare all tips on their taxes. Every CC, that has a tip gets taxed and put on your payroll to be taxed and paid in your paycheck. They get that printout and that's what everything goes by. You stiff your server or short them thinking they are making a killing, think again, they owe money, it's a losing proposition for them.
Next time you cheat your server, just think about all of that.
Party of 40 people with 2 servers. The 2 servers split the tip left, end of the story. Do the other employees split their tips? Nope, so it's theirs. I'd hire an attorney.
2 servers handling 20 people each, they worked their behinds off, they get it, and luck of the draw. Shameful owner.
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