Servers

How are Food Servers (Waiter/Waitress) Taxed on Tips or Income?
In California, or even elsewhere, are food servers, waiters or waitresses still taxed somehow if I, as the customer, decide not to tip them? Is there some imagined tip amount that is taxed if I do not tip? Is their income taxed based upon gross food sales maybe? How are they taxed? If the service is SO BAD that someone decides not to tip the waiter, are they still taxed? And, can someone provide a link to their reference please. Thank you!

Many people will give you bad information on this. Some will say that the IRS taxes them on 8% of their sales as a base. This is false as the IRS does not receive a servers sales information. The only info they receive is what the company claims for them. In many companies this is that 8% number, but this practice is less common than in the past. Nowadays, most restaurant computer systems prompt a server to claim tips when they clock out. In most cases, the computer will not let claim less than what their credit card tips were. In my restaurant, this is the vast majority of the servers income. In other places, a server who claims too low will be counseled, because either they are not claiming correctly or they are giving poor service. In any case, the restaurant usually will not allow a server to claim less than a certain percentage of their sales. Because this is a matter of individual company policy it is impossible to cite a link for you. Remember also, that nearly all servers pay a portion of their tips to support staff such as bussers, hostesses, bartenders etc., and the amount they pay, or 'tip-out' is almost always based on sales. This amount is typically around 5%. So if you have a $100 tab and do not tip: A) You have taken up a table, which is the 'real estate' a server uses to make his income. B) Taken the servers time C) Forced that server into paying $5 out of his own pocket for the privilege of serving you. Therefore, if the service is that bad, tip no less than ten percent and either don't go back to that restaurant or speak to the manager.

How can restraunts get away with paying servers 2 - 3 dollars an hour?
Why is the federal minimum wage raised, but never the server wage? How is it right to make a store pay their employees properly and not a restraunt? Don't you think that restraunts should pay their servers and not the customers? I don't understand how the government makes some types of businesses to pay their employees themselves and others say the customers have to do it.

There's a provision in the minimum wage law that says that if an employee receives tips, then the employer can pay half the minimum, as long as the employee gets enough in tips to make up the difference. If the employee only gets $1.00/hr in tips (a really bad restaurant), then the restaurant must increase his salary so that he gets the $5.85 combined from tips and salary.

What are some good servers to download for a mac?
Any servers like internet explorer or safari. It has to be for mac and it has to be free.Thanks for all your answers!

Internet explorer and Safari are web browsers not servers, as far as web browsers go Camino is great (made by the firefox folks) also firefox is good, as well as mozilla and opera all free. As far as actual servers go if that is what you're asking about, OSX already has Apache installed by default you just have to turn it on in the system preferences under personnel web sharing, although I wouldn't do it unless you truly want to serve a website from your mac.

Is there a Runescape private servers that macs can run?
I know there is Moparscape but those servers are boring. If you know any servers that are good please tell. I have a mac so I can't run RAR.( actually I am just to dumb to). Thank you in advance. I will select the best answer ASAP.

Not all servers are private.

Do I need to pay taxes on an internet business if my servers and business are offshore but I work in the US?
I am considering starting an online business that would make money exclusively from online advertising. I am the sole employee and I am located in the US - I have some writers also freelancing in the US. I wanted to know if I can avoid paying us taxes on my corporate income if I locate my servers offshore and incorporate my business offshore.

The corporation may not but your still have to pay income tax of your earnings even if you never bring the money back to U.S. In reality, for small business it isn't worth the trouble. Your corporation will pay corporate tax at the foreign country. You will pay personal income tax for US when you receive salary/distribution from your corporation even if the money stays abroad. Your foreign bank accounts will get tax withholding because you do not have their equivalent of tax IDs. You probably still need US currency accounts to pay freelancers, so you will pay for currency conversion. Not to mention the structure and taxation are complex and you probably need to hire lawyers to help you set it up and accountants to do your tax every year. Best wishes.

Is there another way to connect to world of warcraft real servers other than setting the realmlist?
i have recently switched to a private server in world of warcraft but now i want to go back to blizzards servers. when i would go to login i would login to the private server and cant login to blizzards servers. i even set my realmlists like everyone says to do and it still doesnt work! plz help im desperate!

just use repair tool inside the wow folder, it will change back your realmlist and anything else that might have been altered

How do you fix/prevent bad routing to local servers? Any programs or things i can do?
I have 15 megabyte FIOS, and i live in Dallas, Texas. There are servers located in Dallas, and i ping absolutely terrible to them. I ping about 10 times over what I should be. It takes longer routes than necessary, causing me to ping bad.

Sounds like looping problems. Good Cisco Routers use technology called Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) to use only the best routing options. And this is done automatically in fractions of a second on the trunk between the routers/servers. That is the best way, and yes the most expensive way. For you to do anything, well you can find a way to upgrade the trunks, switches, routers, etc...but not most of us have a few hundred thousand dollars sitting around with nothing to do with it. Also, 15mb conn is pretty slow. Fiber usually (older) is 100 and LC connection Fiber is constant 1gig. There is a possibility it is your own NIC card...very small possibility, but it could happen. Try to ping yourself in the command console with ping localhost. You should get very nice ping to yourself (127.0.0.1) to test yourself out. Other than that, you may have a tough time doing much. Good luck

How do you update name servers quickly for domain names?
I just finished the process of transferring my site to a new host, but I have a problem, when ever you change name servers, it can take months for it to fully change. ISP's keep a cache of the name servers and rarely update them. Does anyone know of a good way I can ping my ISP to tell them to update the DNS cache? I am talking about domain name cache, not internet service. I also have solved the problem my self, thanks for the answers anyway.

Make sure the old ISP has expired your IP address from their DNS servers, then call your new ISP and have them set a lower TTL (time to live) setting on your DNS host records. Most ISP's set their cache to expire within 24-48 hours so updates take place relatively fast. But you can sometimes request that time be lowered to 1-6 hours depending on how cooperative they are about it.

Can a restaraunt with hold a servers credit card tips for and pay out servers on a specified day?
My employer is trying to withhold the tips paid in credit cards and distribute the tips out weekly. Is this legal? The cash is there they just will not break it out nightly to pay the servers. I really should have spell checked before I submitted...sorry.

Some restauranteurs notoriously kept a substantial percentage of tips charged to credit cards, and others pool such tips for sharing out among employees. The Playboy Clubs, I read, used to keep half of tips charged and not paid in cash, and would fire any waitress who revealed that fact to a customer. I understand that some states/jurisdictions have made such theft by employers. I almost always pay tips in cash for that reason. I can understand an employer holding back charged tips for a few days both because it takes that long to get the money from the bank or credit card issuer and because the employer is responsible for FICA and tax reporting. It all comes down to what is reasonable under the circumstances.

Is there any privet servers that can help me level up very fast?
s there any privet servers that can help me level up very fast?

I'm with the earlier answer.. a privet is a bush. check your spelling and be sure you're asking your questions in the right category. you wound up in garden and landscape. asking the same question in details doesn't help anyone answer you better, either. language is powerful, if you can learn to use it effectively.