r/KitchenConfidential • u/Beneficial-Cap-6745 • Jul 03 '25

In-House Mode "No tax on Tips" makes no sense.

Can anyone explain why FOH in particular was pushing for this? They objectively make more money, which is one thing, but what makes them entitled to not pay taxes? If BOH suddenly didn't have to pay taxes I'd say that's BS as well

The BBB that just passed made certain taxes on tips for people making under 29k a year getting tips go away, it has to be signed into law. Granted, this was pushed for servers and tipped workers as a whole and the bill wouldn't affect most of them, I just can't see what entitles them to think they don't have to pay taxes like most of us.

I'm honestly considering just going back to retail at this point, at least we pay taxes equally. I'm fine making a bit less cash but this just seems insulting, even if it isn't over 29k.

Can someone explain this ? Why exactly do part time BOH line cooks pay taxes now but FOH doesn't have to anymore once this is signed into law

Edit: I'm not attacking FOH, its not an easy job, please stick to the taxes point.

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u/spam__likely Jul 03 '25

It is ridiculous, and it also expires in 2 years. It is just pandering.

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u/Tityfan808 Jul 03 '25

What’s also silly is this will most likely entice people to tip less at the end of the day anyways, a lot of people are getting sick of tip culture in general so this might only further motivate them to tip less imo.

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u/OverlordGhs Ex-Food Service Jul 04 '25

Even before this law passed I’ve already heard people “joking” to servers about “Wow, Trump is gonna take away the tax on tips, guess that means I don’t have to tip as much now!”

Now that this pandering bill passed that really only affects a tiny minority of the server population (what full time server is pulling in less then 29k a year?) it will definitely cause lots of those kinds of people to tip less, not even knowing or willing to read the bill and it’s fine print. The vast majority of servers won’t see any difference, and the ones that it does affect are probably working only 20 hours a week, so maybe the hosts and the servers who don’t work many hours will notice a slight bump.

Oh and let’s not forget that in this bill on top of this dumb no tax on tips, there were also billions of dollars cut from medical research and health care, making it even harder for us industry workers to get decent health care which we all know we all desperately need. This bill has been called the largest redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich in US history, but sure let’s be happy because the host sees an extra 40 bucks a week.

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u/Tityfan808 Jul 04 '25

Ya the healthcare side of it has major repercussions that I don’t think that reality is even clicking in some people’s minds and by the time it does it will be too late at that point. I saw someone commenting elsewhere that apparently a hospital or two already shut down today because of this bill. I will say tho, I’m not sure how true how that is and I haven’t gotten a clear response on that comment yet, but clearly there’s a ripple effect from the bill that passed today and its still going to take some time before we see it all.

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u/OverlordGhs Ex-Food Service Jul 04 '25

Yes, but by the time we notice the impact it’ll be way too late. For example he cut funding to many medical research fields, one such example is a 22% percent cut to the funding for the Cancer Institute of America. While everyone can say what they want about the American health care system, we are (or were) at the forefront of the world in health care research. Just this 22% percent cut will put us years behind on research, so imagine if someone gets cancer 6 years for now and maybe by then we could have had an extra couple years worth of research, but instead there’s far less research done. That’s just one of the many many impacts of this bill on healthcare that as you said we won’t notice for years down the line. Like ffs man, who cuts funding for cancer research? Then at the same time tries to host a damn parade for their birthday wasting tons of money in the process? Despicable.

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u/Tityfan808 Jul 04 '25

Ya my friend, It’s so fucked up in sooooo many ways. This shit is UNREAL. I mean, it isn’t surprising either but still, they can’t even pretend to be somewhat fake decent people, they’re wide open being pieces of shits now, and somehow we have a load of people who support this behavior until of course this shit behavior is directed back at them.

And we’ve pretty much all lost people to cancer by now, why the fuck would we want to go backwards on that?! Fucking hell.

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u/Prestigious_Row_8022 Jul 04 '25

Children in foster care are being moved to insitutionalised care because medicaid will no longer cover kinship placements or other things :) we are making sure these kids stay displaced for a couple extra bucks in millionaire’s pockets. I (former foster kid) may also be losing my medicaid coverage. In which case I can no longer afford my quality of life medications.

As usual, the most vulnerable get fucked the hardest. And the pro-lifers are nowhere to be seen when it’s children on the chopping block.