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Tips for cooks in USA ?
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bill38 jlai.lu bill38@jlai.lu
Joined: 2023-08-20
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In US restaurants, do cooks receive tips like the waiters ? Is there a sharing between waiters and cooks ?

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farmgineer nord.pub farmgineer@nord.pub
Joined: 2026-04-25
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Some wait staff tip out the kitchen with some percentage of tips, but cooks are generally paid the non-tipped minimum wage. Some places try to forbid these agreements and I think they may be illegal in some places.

I also got tipped out working as a bar back/security/whateverElseNotBartending in bars.

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Che Banana beehaw.org The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org
Joined: 2024-03-01
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AFAIK WAS state passed a law that unless the cooks were front facing (aka in front of guests) tips could not be split with them.

Law may have changes as this was 2010 or so

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StillAlive piefed.world StillAlive@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-11-09
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Don't forget to add salt.

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