In some states, wait staff have to pay a "gratuity" tax of 8 percent of their receipts for the evening. Just as an example, if a server waited on a table and the total bill for that table was $100, the server has to pay $8.00 in tax -- no matter how much the table tipped, even if the table didn't tip.
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Date: 2005-01-25 02:32 am (UTC)