“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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“There is a lot of back-of-house work that is critical to the diner’s experience and there is no logical reason why hard-working kitchen staff should not share in a portion of the customer’s ...

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 ...