re: Paying and tipping at a restaurant with a card

I work for a large national chain restaurant and my servers only pay 1% tip out to the bartender...they get paid all their cc tips after the shift.
The company only takes their estimated taxes out of their actual pay checks, so at $2.13 an hr they see very little of that money. The average server for my restaurant makes about $18.50 an hour

The higher end restaurants give out pay checks because the percentage of people and the amount of the checks cause most people to pay with a credit card. There isn't enough cash coming in to pay the servers their tips every shift.