“It’s about time the back of the house is rewarded for something by the public,” Degel said. “How much can I raise my prices before people don’t come in anymore?” Tipping kitchen staff ...

The back kitchen is the part of the kitchen ... tipped employees earned about 2 1/2 times as much as back-of-the-house staff, according to Harmon. Now, that pay gap has been cut by a third.

Employers pay the front-of-house staff the tipped ... positions in the back of house often require extensive training, experience and schooling. In many cases, proper kitchen training requires ...

have collected $591,000 in tips for kitchen staff since April ... shelling out $486,000 to bring the total haul for the back of the house to nearly $1.1 million. If it all sounds like lunacy ...

but not the kitchen staff. It’s illegal, though, for a restaurant to share tips with the back of the house. Nonetheless, you might think the kitchen would receive tips on the side from patrons for ...

(WTVF) — In an attempt to stay competitive in hiring and have high retention among kitchen staff ... animosity between the front-of-the-house staff and back-of-the-house staff because the ...

In recent years, there's been a no-tipping movement within the restaurant industry. The idea has been to rectify a basic pay unfairness to even out the pay between tipped and untipped employees.

Their complaint was against the introduction of a new policy that gave 40% of service charge payments paid on credit and ...

“In today’s tough employment market, employers are finding creative solutions to support their staff ... 12 back of house employees. A six-year employee of the restaurant, Lee said the kitchen ...

Brassica Kitchen + Cafe in Jamaica Plain charges a 20 percent fee that supplements the wages for both front- and back-of-house staff. An extra 3 percent fee helps cover benefits for employees.