Published June 5, 2015

If you break a dish, should you pay for it?

You can be the most careful, cautious server on earth, but accidents happen to everyone. Your shoe catches on the floor and a plate drops from your hand, shattering when it hits the hard tile. You broke the plate, but should you be required to pay for it?

That’s the question asked in this article from Shiftgig. In many restaurants managers will make servers pay for broken dishes either by deducting the money from their paycheck or taking it from their tips. Many servers think that’s unfair, because accidents happen.

However, having a consequence for breaking dishes could encourage servers to be more careful if they’re otherwise a little sloppy. Being forced to pay for broken dishes sucks, but I can see where the managers are coming from.

Read the full article here: Should Servers Ever Have to Pay for Broken Dishes?