Opentable.com...more than meets the eye

babyontheway
Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:04:31 +0000

Hold it there…



Under the current payment scheme, servers have taxes deducted from their paycheck based on the tips that the restaurant expects them to receive.



That is to the benefit of the servers. By having the taxes deducted from their paycheck, the IRS has said they will not audit their daily tips and therefore eliminates detailed record keeping requirements they would have been otherwise subjected to. I believe far more servers would prefer this than to have to keep boxes of records to provide if they get audited.

EmeraldKity4, how big are yout tips (20% of your average meal cost)?