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“Tip pooling”

If anyone has ever been in the rest. business they might of had to experience tip pooling where everyone is forced to put there tips in a bucket. At the end of the night the tips are all divided up equally amonst the waiters that do incredible work, have huge sales ratios and the waiters that suck and did nothing.
It is quite possibly the best way to destroy any sense of moral and the desire to achieve a little more than the next guy.
The next thing you know you have nothing but a mediocre waitstaff and an unhappy clientle.
Small examples of wealth redistribution like this are a clear example of whats in store for us if Obama lands in the oval office.

Lenny.
“False notion”

Yea right.
Dress it up all you want with any website that will fudge the crap out of it with left wing opinionated posts, it’s still wealth redistribution that will immediatly hamper investment interest as anyone who succeeds will pay more on a percentage basis.

I cant really think of any other way to define socialism than to call it spreading the wealth.
Plain and simple.

This country has ridden an enormous wave of success on the back of the American worker. Guess what? The American worker is tapped out. He’s broke. His credit cards are maxed. His home values are declining. He doesn’t have any more money to spend. Money is scarce for the American worker, even though he is employed and is one of the most productive workers in the world. As a result of the American worker being broke, businesses bottom lines are suffering because the demand for their products and services isn’t there. Unless we can figure out how to get more money into the American worker’s pockets, everyone, businesses included, is going to suffer. We can start by taxing the American worker less. With more money to spend, he’s bound to spend more, thus helping businesses. With more demand from the American worker for products and services, businesses will be able to create more jobs and sell more products and services. But without the American worker being able to spend more money, businesses won’t have the demand and resulting revenues necessary to create more jobs and their products and services won’t be selling. Unfortunately, simply taxing the American worker less won’t fully solve our problems.

A large part of the problem, namely that the American worker is tapped out, is largely caused by the tremendous hoarding of assets by the nation’s most wealthy. We’re not talking saving for a rainy day or for kids educations. We’re talking about serious, piles of money hoarding. In the United States at the end of 2001, 10% of the population owned 71% of the wealth, and the top 1% controlled 38%. On the other hand, the bottom 40% owned less than 1% of the nation’s wealth. I’m sure its even worse now. This hoarding of assets by the nation’s top 10% creates a tremendous scarcity of money for the remaining 90%. Unless the top 10% reduces its hoards of money in a way that gets money back to the American Worker, the scarcity of money for 90% of the country will remain. If the scarcity of money for 90% of the country remains, business, our economy, and our people will suffer terribly as a result of reduced demand.

I see two options to accomplish this … 1) get the top 10% and in particular the top 1% to start spending and giving on a massive scale; or 2) tax the top 10% and in particular the top 1% at higher rates and spend the money in a way that spreads it around.

To be frank no one including myself wants to pay more taxes period. No one likes having taxes taken out of their check to support some dead beat! But the reality is historically the wealthest of Americans have never paid their fair share of taxes! The Post man, The office worker, Teachers, the middle class have carried the burden!. While they loop hole their way out of paying hardly anything. Take a few buddies from the yacht club mention a five word sentence and somehow the cost of the yacht is a tax right off!. Major corportation millions of dollars in tax breaks, but somehow outsourcing became more profitable! If this means spread the wealth around I am all for it! We all know the majority of small business do not generate a quarter of a million dollars a year. We need to establish a system of fairness.

Allen.
I have been a professional chef and waiter most of my life. I am not your garden variety chef or waiter. I was not some snotty college brat who for 4 years made omelette’s and burgers on the side and one day called himself a chef. I trained hard for 3 1/2 years and studied under three chefs as an apprentice after that. I also studied Restaurant management, dining room service and supervision as a portion and elective towards my goal of a well rounded education in the field. Plus, I have 35 years of experience in the field and skipping high school carried an assoc. science in rest. management at 18 yrs old.

These attributes can make you a viable and desirable contribution to any restaurant. You are able to command knowledge of both ends of the house. The bottom line is this. If you’re working out front and the cook gets drunk you’re able to cover his aSS. And if you’re working in the back you are able to put on a tux and help out in the front if they are ever short. It also cuts down on the bullsh*t factor. No waiter who’s f*cking up can bullsh*t me when I’m in the back. Simply because I can usually do his job better than him. And the same goes when I am out front, I know when my broiler man or other cooks are full of it. I can look over the line and tell them exactly why my food is screwed up or not ready.

This well rounded knowledge and versatility has made me a formidable force in any restaurant I have ever worked in. It has also caused a few rivalries to take place, but we’ll save that for another story.

The standard tip percentage for a waiter is 15%. I am not a standard waiter by any means. My tip average has always lingered around 20 to 25%. The main reason being that I know my sh*t on both ends of the house. If you are fortunate enough to sit at one of my tables and you have any questions about your meals ingredients or preparation , you will get an instantaneous mouthwatering description of whats in it and how its done. You will not be subjected to the f*cking idiot waiter who has to run back to the kitchen every-time he needs an answer. I pay close attention to every detail and have the social skills to know if you want to be left the f*ck alone, so you can get a hand job after dessert, or have me pamper you’re client till he cant see straight and thinks the waiter is your best friend and you’ve brought him to the best house in town. If your bill is 200.00 , you will give me at least 50.00. After 2 or 3 months at any restaurant I usually have my own clientele and fill my own station with them alone, As a matter of fact in Waikiki I have worked at all the fine houses, and whenever I would relocate my customers would follow me to that house because they knew that with me around, the food and service was going to be exceptionally good.

Around the 80s and 90s I noticed a new and disturbing trend taking place in restaurants across the country. It was socialistic. It was communistic. It was collective wealth redistribution in its raw form. It was called “TIP POOLING�

I was first subjected to this sh*t in the 80s at a place called Baxters in Huntington beach Ca. At the south end of Beach boulevard in Orange county. I was not aware of this until my first night of employment as a simple line cook. I had just arrived in Ca. and had to take what I could get , quickly ! Now you might think to yourself how does tip pooling effect a line cook ? He gets a nice hourly wage as opposed to the wait staff who mostly relies on their tips as their main income, right ? Wrong!

Here is a n example of why socialism and tip pooling are the same and are both always destined to fail. I felt sorry for this one waiter that was busting his a$$ and raking in tips that averaged over 15% of his food sales. Because some other waiter that had been picking his nose all night was going to walk out with as much in his pocket that night as all the others. And after a few weeks of this , the waiter that was doing all the work had started to let his work ethic, motivation and service slip. Why should he go out of his way anymore to please his customers by applying the edge he had so as to bring home a little more than the next guy who wasnt doing sh*t? His motivating factor had been taken away from him, there was no point in going above and beyond.

Restaurants and Countries with governments are very much the same. Let me explain how I come to this comparison. We’ll start at the top which is the corporations and entrepreneur’s, the thinkers. In restaurants this would be the management. They over see all functions and establish budgets and food costs, menu prices and all applicable standards and ideas.The next tier of representation would be productive industry. This would be the back of the house that prepares the food. They are the same as the factories and the mills, the actual product producers. The third tier would be the service and wait staff. They are the retail and sales outlets and commercials you see everywhere. The first three tiers also represent our society, the general population. The fourth tier would be the government.

The government has applied a system of taxation on the Restaurant that is calculated in relevance to their profit margin instead of annual net revenue. The higher the percentage of profit. The taxation is relevant on a scale that depletes any hope of maintaining enough gross profit so as to be able to open another restaurant should this one with this formula be profitable. When this system is applied to all of corporate America, its just like tip pooling.

The problems of wealth redistribution or � tip pooling� will trickle down from the very front of the house to the back of the house and then to the house as a whole itself.

Taking from the hard working motivated public by forms of taxation will trickle down to demoralize any society as a whole also.

After a few weeks of having to give up the extra tips that this waiter has worked so hard to earn, he gives up giving good service due to lack of morale and reason, and regresses to become just a mediocre ordinary waiter. And his attitude is reflected in his tips, they suck. As a result the pool collected at the end of the night is now smaller and the rest of the wait staff notices also that after everything is divided up they are also going home with less now than in previous weeks. Consequently, the whole wait staff has become demoralized and could give a sh*t. No more free lunch.

When the front of our country’s house ( retail and commercial) is taxed to death and offered wages that are constraining they become of a hopeless attitude. True, they have a job and health-care. But no matter how hard they work, that is all they will ever have. Consequently they are also demoralized and could give sh*t. With this realization the pace and ability to sell and market and actually collect the money needed faces a pace that is relevant to the mindset of hopelessness. Service the front begins to slow. The product does not get moved any more than the restaurant will sell food. If the product is not moved, it is comparable to the food sitting and getting cold. And then naturally your patrons and/or retail customers will go elsewhere. And so now management is forced to let go of some wait staff who will have to go get some type of financial assistance from a government that now has a shrinking tax base to draw from due to massive unemployment. The factories/kitchen will have to let go of some staff to cover the cost of a dwindling clientele and Bingo ! the cook is out of a job ! Tip pooling has effected the cook.And he is headed for the unemployment line also. And will also suck our government dry of whats left.

Allen, you know absolutley nothing about the rest, business.
Good waters get good tips. Crappy waiters get crappy tips.
I rarely ran into a waiter who got stuck with a good tipper.
Not everyone is doing a “great job” that is fantasy, so why should anyone get rewarded with money that is not comprable to the quality of their work ???

I’ll be damned if my years of experience and hard work are going to cover someone elses mediocrity.

I agree with Micky tip pooling is sh*tty.. but that is not what Barack is going to do… the fact is we have a huge a** deficit because of the tax cuts that primarily only worked for the top 3-5% of America.. and if you have not noticed the Sh*t is not trickling down!!!! Humans in their nature take care of number one.. and you can not trust them to take care of their common man unless they have to.. This theory of Trickle down is “private socailism” hoping the Rich citizens will do the right thing and “spread the wealth” by offering more jobs and opening more businesses.. and sure they did this.. but the jobs are in other countries and they left Americans without millions of good jobs and left with cr*ppy retail jobs.. so the same people that got them fired can talk down to them because they work at a retail store… And what of the top 3-5%?? they are laughing all the way to the bank.. offshore banks, where their money is safe from the financial crisis they caused!!

Only thing trickling down from the Corporations and wealth is their runny sh*t

Johnny.

You can spin this anyway you want.
Its basic math.
Take from the bigger pile and add to the little one so they both come out the same.
All administrations are gulty of paying inflated prices for services and goods.
Would like me to show you a chart ?

Hitting on basic math again, thers absilutley no way in hell that Obama can give everything hes promising with the expindetures we have as of now and need to fullfill in the near future.
The money just is not there.

The thing that you and Allen do not understand only because of your collective reasoning is that we are being stripped of rights to private property when the government dictates what you will do with it.
At what point do we go from being willing contributers to society to having our incomes dictated to us ?
30% taxation, 40, 50, 60, where does it stop ?

I never said that anything positive was to come of trickling. As a matter of fact if you re read what I posted I was saying that the depletion of moral and funds trickles down to other facets of society when you have a loss of motivation and moral. I realize you are automatically associating the word “trickle” with Reagans policies which is a far cry from what I am saying.

Before you go any further on your tangent as to who is to blame for this finacial crisis I suggest you look to the most useless congress in the history of this country that is run by Pelosi and headed by Reid who were the ones to block initiaves and bills put forth by McCain to stop F&F from issuing any more sub prime loans to a sector that could not afford to pay them.
Heres the truth and not just a bunch of opinonated spewing.
What could cost Obama the election.
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/john-stephenson/2008/09/22/why-doesnt-media-report-facts-where-blame-belongs-financial-crisis

The Facts: In May 2006, McCain was speaking on the Senate floor in support of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Act of 2005, a plan he had co-sponsored. In the speech, he cited a federal report, saying that “Fannie Mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated financial reports to hit earnings targets.� He also noted a $3.8 million fine Freddie Mac had recently paid to the Federal Elections Commission over problems with disclosure of its political lobbying.

“These are entities that have demonstrated over and over again that they are deeply in need of reform,� McCain said in the speech. He urged senators to support changing how the institutions were overseen by the government. “If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole,� McCain said in the speech.

The legislation, which never became law, would have moved oversight of Fannie and Freddie from the department of Housing and Urban Development to an independent Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Agency.�

McCain spoke forcefully on May 25, 2006, on behalf of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 (via Beltway Snark):
Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae’s regulator reported that the company’s quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were “illusions deliberately and systematically created� by the company’s senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal.
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s report goes on to say that Fannie Mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated financial reports to hit earnings targets in order to trigger bonuses for senior executives. In the case of Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae’s former chief executive officer, OFHEO’s report shows that over half of Mr. Raines’ compensation for the 6 years through 2003 was directly tied to meeting earnings targets. The report of financial misconduct at Fannie Mae echoes the deeply troubling $5 billion profit restatement at Freddie Mac.
The OFHEO report also states that Fannie Mae used its political power to lobby Congress in an effort to interfere with the regulator’s examination of the company’s accounting problems. This report comes some weeks after Freddie Mac paid a record $3.8 million fine in a settlement with the Federal Election Commission and restated lobbying disclosure reports from 2004 to 2005. These are entities that have demonstrated over and over again that they are deeply in need of reform.
For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs–and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. OFHEO’s report this week does nothing to ease these concerns. In fact, the report does quite the contrary. OFHEO’s report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay.
I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform

{{{{ Act of 2005, S. 190, }}}}

to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.
I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation.
In this speech, McCain managed to predict the entire collapse that has forced the government to eat Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with Bear Stearns and AIG. He hammers the falsification of financial records to benefit executives, including Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, both of whom have worked as advisers to Barack Obama this year. McCain also noted the power of their lobbying efforts to forestall oversight over their business practices. He finishes with the warning that proved all too prescient over the past few days and weeks.
What was this bill? The act would have done the following:
(1) in lieu of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), an independent Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Agency which shall have authority over the Federal Home Loan Bank Finance Corporation, the Federal Home Loan Banks, the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac); and (2) the Federal Housing Enterprise Board.
Sets forth operating, administrative, and regulatory provisions of the Agency, including provisions respecting: (1) assessment authority; (2) authority to limit nonmission-related assets; (3) minimum and critical capital levels; (4) risk-based capital test; (5) capital classifications and undercapitalized enterprises; (6) enforcement actions and penalties; (7) golden parachutes; and (8) reporting.
It never made it out of committee. Chris Dodd, then the ranking member of the Banking Committee and now its chair, was in the middle of receiving preferential loan treatment from Countrywide Mortgage, one of the companies gaming the system in the credit crisis. Meanwhile, Barack Obama took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the lobbyists McCain mentions in this speech, making him the #2 recipient of Fannie/Freddie money:�

Even Clinton puts this mess on the left

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: “I think the responsibility that the Democrats have may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was President to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.�

Yea, thats right, even Clinton isnt dumb eneough to put this all on one party which is exactly what the problem is with rabid moonbat mentallity.
I’ll bet you dont even see the potential catastrophie if Obama is elected and we end with a one party state for the next two years.
Can you imagine ?
The most useless congress in our countries history with ratings even lower than that of GWB working side by side with a democratic executive.
God help us all.

And the God that most Republicans will not help everyone becasue the right wing crazies god is unforgiving and closed mined I assume, because most of the right wing crazies are that way…

As the most recent post said.. if you do not like it when Obama is elected.. move to Canada..

BTW Hugo Chavez said Bush makes him look like a conservative dictator lol

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