There are a few tools that every server should have in their arsenal. A good cork screw, a crumber, a lighter, maybe a penlight and certainly a presentation book style organizer. Up until now all of these items have been old standards – unintuitive and generic. Enter the Waiter Caddy™ [...]
These are sure fire ways to decrease or lose a tip. – 1. Correct sequence when serving courses. Drinks……appetizer……salads…..main course……dessert. Don’t bring me an appetizer and salad at the same time. Who wants their appetizer to get cold while they eat their salad or salad to get hot while they eat their appetizer? I don’t! I especially don’t want my salad, appetizer and main course all served at the same time or within 3 minutes of each other. [...]
Our first Tip20! Poll addresses something that is neglected in most tipping vs. no-tipping arguments. If you don’t like tipping, what do you think a fair hourly wage for servers should be? [...]
The IRS figures the food and beverage business should be sending in some 200,000 tip disclosure forms every year. But only about a quarter ever show up. The IRS wouldn’t go on the record, but said it recently hired an outside contractor to identify slackers and that it’s conducting more audits… [...]
IR-2009-110, Dec. 1, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today extended for an additional two years its program that simplifies the record keeping burden for reporting tip income in the food and beverage industry.
The Attributed Tip Income Program (ATIP) was first announced in 2006 in Revenue Procedure 2006-30. The program, which [...]
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