theparsons
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 22, 2007
Dreamfinder
I think the OP is upset that DDP will not include tip. This means that Servers will depend on what the guest leave for a tip which also depends on the service.
With the DDP, if a server worked 5 hours, serving 40 customers total, earned $9/customer for tip (based on 18% tip for $50 per meal ( appitizer, entree and desert)), that would come to $360 in tips that day.
Many posters here stated that they would still leave a tip, actually some mentioned leaving 20%.
Ok...if this math is accurate....and then they have to give 40% of that to the bussers, cook, bartenders, etc....that's over $200 still.....that's about $40 an hour for that 5 hour workday (not sure where you got 5 hours, but increasing the hours would presumably just increase the revenue, so I'll go with it).
I'd wager that's probably better income than most of the customers they are serving in the moderate TS...and equal to many in the high end TS.
What did you base your figures on though....is it first/second hand knowledge or an assumption? And of course you're assuming all 40 of those customers actually left a tip....the servers posting on this thread seem to indicate many don't leave them anything. Of course, I also don't think 40 customers in 5 hours is a realistic number.....haven't been to WDW yet, but in the nice resturant's we go to around town, most times there is one server per section...thinking of our favorite place, our fav waitress is probably handling 4-6 tables at all times....figure there are 4 people at each table and they all take 1 hour to eat, in a 5 hour day she'd have served 80-120 people. It's definitely hard work but if each of those 100 people left only $2 that's a very nice wage. In our state that would beabove the median (of course we're not Florida touristy center either).