Having worked in both the front and back of the house in a wide range of establishments, I feel qualified to respond.

Way to edit out the crux of my argument. You declare your tips, and the taxes are withheld from your actual paycheck for your hourly earnings. So you still pay taxes on your tips, just not immediately.

Tax-free tips are great, until you go to retire and haven't paid enough into Social Security or Medicare to qualify.

It shouldn't matter where servers work at this article is about everyone in the restaurant business because tipping sucks. I dont care if your "Friends makes bank from high end restaurants" EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A FAIR WAGE IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND

You're wrong on both. When I tended bar in a popular upscale place in NYC I had to have two min wage sales jobs just to make ends meet.

HAHAH When i worked as a server my "Fat Wads of Cash" was ALL ENTIRELY SINGLE DOLLAR BILLS which amounted to 50-100 dollar for working 7 days a week busting my ass off. This doesn't include the days my pay got deducted for making mistakes or if a table dine and dashed which came out of my tipps, aka my money I earned.

Nobody is saying people you knew were lying. However, the stats disagree with what you're saying. There aren't tons of servers making incredible money.

I work in restaurant administration (the benefits/payroll side of things) and actually, ACA is making tax-free tips near to impossible for employers to let slide, due to affordability requirements.
Most servers I know declare their tips - you need to make actual money on paper to rent an apartment, buy a house, get a…

I just want to say I love how no actual servers are speaking up in favor of our tipping standards, just people who claim to know their positions.

Um, no to the first part. Not at all. I guarantee you the vast majority of servers would much prefer Packhouse's model (or at least a variant for fine dining) to the current one.

It's a joke that food service workers are forbidden by law to work when they're sick. I've had several food service jobs and any time I tried to call in sick the manager told me to take some benadryl or pepto and suck it up or don't bother coming in when I recover. Especially on days when they anticipate a lot of…

This is great! I'm going to check out her blog for recommendations for sports bras for plus-size women with plus-size boobs. Nothing I find ever works, and it keeps me from running.... An activity I loved as a kid, before the boobs and the weight came on.

I had a friend in a similar situation. Got knocked up at 16, father denied everything. Never saw her or the kid. Years later, she meets a new, great guy. The guy pays for family therapy because he wants her kid to have a good relationship with him. Once they're married, they decide that he should adopt the kid. They…

I imagine Channing Tatum playing tiny cymbals would take offense to this.

I can crochet one of those out of yarn that won't crack & break en masse. Why won't somebody pay me a quarter mil for it?

Oh yeah, that tool is only available in CS6.

I like that she still wants to fit in "dye his carpet pink" between all that evil.

Chilling!