She’s Explaining Why You Should Always Tip Your Bartenders And Waitstaff After She Received A Check For Just $9.28

Let’s just get the PSA out there from the start: tip your bartenders and waitstaff well! As customers in restaurants and bars, you often don’t know or realize what actually goes on behind the scenes within the restaurant. TikToker @f.aa.ded, or bronté, opened up about the struggles of being a bartender.
To give viewers a sense of what her life looks like, she shows parts of her check, in a TikTok video, that she received from her bartending job. Just be warned, the amount of money that she makes is abysmal.
“So this is why you should always tip your bartender, servers– anyone who waits on you or provides a service for you,” she said while pointing to her check.
“This is my hourly for two weeks. I worked almost 71 hours– I get paid $2.13 an hour as a bartender and a server.”
Things don’t seem too outrageous yet– the hourly rate is a little surprising given that the minimum wage in most places sits slightly higher at around $14 or $15– but even still, you can make sense of it so far.
That is until she breaks down the numbers more in-depth–and it’s shocking.
“I should’ve made $150.81,” she said. “But because I have to have Social Security, Medicare, and the income tax taken out, I was paid $9.28 for 70 hours of work.”
She said that she didn’t have to rely on this check alone because people gave her tips, but it’s still not a livable wage.
And, there are those who don’t believe in tipping or who don’t believe in tipping a solid amount, in which case she’s back in the same spot.

Jacob Lund – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
“Of course, I got tips,” she said. “But this is what I got for my hourly. This is why you tip.”
Many of the people who saw her video were very sympathetic and supportive of her.
“I work in California as a waitress, and 3 months ago, I got a $0 check. Asked my boss why, and this is the reason! We live on our tips!!!,” one commenter wrote.
Another wrote something similar, “I can’t believe $2.13 hr is still the standard wage for this. That was the wage when I was a teenager many years ago. That’s insane.”
Unfortunately, though, not everyone who saw her video agreed with her point of view–many of whom claimed that she refused to show how much she makes in tip money.
“I love how she went the extra mile to make sure not to show the “Cash Tips” amount!,” one person commented.
That was just one of many comments saying the same thing. Someone even went as far as essentially saying that it’s not the customer’s problem, so stop complaining.
“I’m so overhearing entitled hospitality staff. Customers don’t owe your your wage. Take it up with the companies ripping you off,” the viewer wrote.
While this may be true that the source of the problem lies in the company itself, the problem is still perpetuated by customers. So next time you’re at a restaurant or bar, throw down some cash for your server or bartender. No, it won’t kill you, and you actually may be helping them more than you know.
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