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Tips & Taxes – The misconception about IRS tip reporting.

There is a misconception that servers are required to report their tips as at least 8% of their sales revenue. 8% is simply a bottom line that the IRS uses when attempting to determine how much a server earned in tips over the year. The IRS does not expect to be paid 8% of a server’s sales as tax – that would be akin to taxing the customer for their bill… [...]

Be Kind to Food Servers Awareness Month

Lifetime waitress Sybil Presley of Memphis, Tennessee has made it her mission to get a month recognized nationally as “Be Kind to Food Servers Awareness Month” [...]

Tips On Tipping

Tipping your server at a restaurant has been a long-standing American tradition. While tipping 15% of the total bill has been the standard for a long time, that tip can vary depending on the service you receive. Here are a few ways to determine how much you should tip. [...]

How to Handle Restaurant Table Camping

Every time I had a closing shift in the restaurant and was trying to get out at a decent time, seems like Murphy and his law got hungry and decided to pay me a visit… [...]

Server training ordinance gets initial approval

Anyone who sells or serves alcohol in San Marcos would have to attend mandatory training to make them “responsible beverage servers,” under a proposed ordinance tentatively approved Tuesday by the… [...]

Leave Camping for the Outside not the Restaurant

The income that a server makes is largely dependent on the tips that they earn when their guests pay their bill. Hence, the more tables they turn the more bills they produce and the more tips they will receive. If a server is not turning tables they are making less money… [...]