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Masenko said:

Edit: Tipping is not great if the tips go only to the wait staff. Your kitchen staff often feels slighted, and they actually have reason to make your food worse to lower the wait staff's tips. Nothing sucks more than waiters (or delivery drivers) bragging about $150 in tips when you just made $40 slaving away.


I've worked in several restaurants, and without exception every one in the kitchen made more than anyone in the floor staff. None of the cooks or even the dishwashers went home at night thinking "Wow, I wish I got tips too." They were still making more money without them.