Wait staff is BC at least have to be paid minimum wage regardless of tips etc. AFAIK nobody is allowed to work for less than minimum - for awhile we had an awful ‘training wage’ for the first 500 hours (prompting many employers to ‘let go’ staff at 499 hours, rinse repeat).
I’ve worked in restaurants (in the back, cooking) where we all got tipped out nightly. I’ve also worked in one (a chain) that held onto the ‘tipout’ for months, and if you left or were fired before the end of the busy season you got nothing. Which of course allowed them to make people work 80 hours weeks and be total assholes, because everyone was beholden to the tipout. (I didn’t make it, left for a better job after a month or so).
